Non-stick, chemistry not named

Chemistry not stated by the term

Coatings and finishes. Also written nonstick, non-stick coating, easy release, anti-stick.

The listing says the surface releases food and stops there. No polymer, no binder, no supplier named.

This is the single largest group in the dataset and it is the one where nothing can be concluded from the label. A pan in this group might be a fluoropolymer, might be a sol-gel, and the published materials do not say which.

What the makers actually said

Of the 808 graded products whose materials record non-stick with no chemistry named alongside a coating or finish, 81.6% name no coating chemistry anywhere in their published materials. This is a count of what companies published. It is not a statement about what any product contains.

Named a fluoropolymer
76
Named a coating that is not a fluorochemical
73
Named no chemistry at all
659

A further 11 products record non-stick with no chemistry named with no coating or finish at all, so there is nothing for a maker to have disclosed. They are outside the split above.

Free to quote with a link. Of the 808 graded consumer products that record non-stick with no chemistry named together with a coating or finish, 81.6% name a coating chemistry anywhere in their published materials, according to PFAS Authority's October 2026 spec sheet decoder edition.

How those 819 products graded on our rubric

These are model-based estimates, not laboratory tests, scored on one public rubric. Read the spread against the categories underneath it rather than as a verdict on non-stick with no chemistry named in the abstract, because the rubric gives every category a baseline and a term concentrated in one category will carry that category’s spread with it.

Median grade 15 out of 100, across 31 categories.

GradeProductsShare
Excellent50.6%
Good799.6%
Poor151.8%
Bad72087.9%

Where non-stick with no chemistry named turns up

The 6 categories holding the most of it, out of 31. Each one links to the live ranking for that category, best graded first.

Best graded with non-stick with no chemistry named

One per category, best first, so the list is not five of the same thing.

Worst graded with non-stick with no chemistry named

One per category, worst first. A low grade here is usually something else on the product, not the term.

Decode a whole listing instead

A product usually names several of these at once, and the one that matters is rarely the one in the title. Paste the full materials line into the decoder and it will pick out every term it recognises, the most open-ended first.

Other coatings and finishes

Edition 2026-10-08, read from 11,337 graded products carrying a material string, and frozen at that date. A term is matched against the material and construction string recorded for each product, written from its published materials, specification and ingredient list rather than from a laboratory test. Products count under every term they match, so the totals across terms overlap. Found something wrong? Tell us.