Non-Stick Crepe and Dosa Pan

Details

This is the one coated pan on the shelf and everything else here is bare metal on purpose, because a coating is a part with an expiry date fitted to a tool that should not have one. A thin dosa and a crepe are the honest exception: bare steel and cast iron can both do it, but a coated pan does it every morning with no learning curve. So here is one, made properly and described without the usual fog. The coating is PTFE, polytetrafluoroethylene, roller-applied in three layers, primer, midcoat and topcoat, over a 4.2 mm cast aluminium body and cured at about 410 C. Now the part the category will not say out loud. PTFE is a fluoropolymer, and a fluoropolymer is a PFAS under the OECD definition, so a PTFE pan cannot be PFAS-free and any pan sold to you as both PTFE and PFAS-free is misdescribed. What is true is narrower and we will only claim the narrow thing: PFOA was a processing aid, it was phased out of fluoropolymer manufacture by around 2015, and this coating is tested free of PFOA and PFOS. PFOA-free is not PFAS-free. Sliding one word in place of the other is precisely the substitution this shop exists to refuse. The temperature matters just as much. PTFE is stable in service to 260 C and begins to break down above it, and an empty pan on a full flame passes 260 C in about two minutes, which is why every non-stick failure story starts with a preheat.

• Coating named: PTFE, three coats, roller-applied, reinforced, cured at about 410 C
• PFOA and PFOS tested absent. PFAS present, because PTFE is one, and we will not print otherwise
• Maximum 260 C in service. Medium flame only, and never preheat it empty
• Body is cast aluminium at 4.2 mm, not pressed sheet, so it does not flex or warp over a flame
• IS 1660, the aluminium utensil standard inside the cookware order, is written for wrought utensils pressed from sheet. This body is cast, so it sits outside that mark, and what backs it is the reports below rather than a logo
• Handle is beechwood on a single screw, replaceable, and there is no plastic anywhere on the pan
• Expected life two to three years of daily use. We print the number instead of implying forever
• Lead and cadmium tested absent from the coating system, and overall migration run on the assembled pan
• When batter starts to grip after oiling, or the coating is cut through, it is finished. Replace it, do not keep cooking on a broken film
• Wooden or silicone tools only, no dishwasher, no scrubber, and do not stack another pan inside it without a cloth
• Gas and hotplate only. It is aluminium, so it will not work on induction, and it does not go in an oven