#nonstick-cookware

#nonstick-cookware

So far, most nonstick innovations we've seen are just tweaks on existing cookware designs and materials that are accented with savvy marketing faff. Take Our Place's titanium nonstick, which advertises itself as "the first coating-free nonstick pan." In reality, it's a titanium-coated pan with a textured surface that, according to their materials, requires oil to activate its nonstick properties. By this measure, every stainless-steel pan could be considered a "coating-free nonstick"... but I digress.

Pick up this All-Clad 5-Piece Nonstick Frying Pan Set for $180 (a $30 discount) and throw your dingy, dented, second- or possibly thirdhand nonstick pans away. A better world is possible, and it starts with good tools. And All-Clad is good tools. We've long heralded it as the gold standard, as have chefs around the world in kitchens big and small. It lasts for years. It's backed by a limited lifetime warranty.

"Data indicates that there are no health effects from the incidental ingestion of nonstick coating flakes," the company that produces Teflon says, noting that the government has deemed the cookware "safe for consumer use." Still, it warns people to turn their burners down and air vents up when they use their nonstick pans, and to avoid preheating them empty.