Stainless Clad Fry Pan vs Signature 1 Qt Quart Non-stick Sauce Pan Red Speckled With: which is safer?

Made In Stainless Clad Fry Pan is the clear pick. Paula Deen Signature 1 Qt Quart Non-stick Sauce Pan Red Speckled With carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.

Our pick

Made In Stainless Clad Fry Pan

Made In

Stainless Clad Fry Pan

PFAS grade

Excellent 100/100

Overall grade

Excellent 96/100

Verdict

Buy

Hazard flags

⚑ 1

Material

Stainless steel clad construction, no nonstick coating

Confidence

90%

PossibleClad separation or delamination over time

Paula Deen Signature 1 Qt Quart Non-stick Sauce Pan Red Speckled With

Paula Deen

Signature 1 Qt Quart Non-stick Sauce Pan Red Speckled With

PFAS grade

Bad 15/100

Overall grade

Bad 0/100

Verdict

Skip

Hazard flags

⚑ 4

Material

Non-stick coating, type unspecified

Confidence

35%

PossibleTeflon-type coating fume inhalation risk (unspecified coating type)

ReportedCoating degradation and microflaking

PossibleAluminum leaching

Where these two actually differ

  • We flag Clad separation or delamination over time on the Made In and not on the Paula Deen.
  • We flag PTFE fume inhalation risk (unspecified coating type), Coating degradation and microflaking, Aluminum leaching and Coating adhesion failure under thermal stress on the Paula Deen and not on the Made In.
  • The Made In is Stainless steel clad construction, no nonstick coating where the Paula Deen is Non-stick coating, type unspecified, which is most of the difference in these two grades.
  • The gap is 85 points, wide enough that this is not a close call, and the Made In is the one to buy.
  • We are less certain about the Paula Deen grade, at 35% confidence against 90%, because it discloses less.

Both products run through the same public rubric: materials, coatings, brand disclosure, lab findings, and recalls, plus a beyond-PFAS hazard analysis. Grades are model-based estimates, not lab tests. How grades work →

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