Can we trust stone or ceramic coated pans? What are the coatings of the non-stick pans that we find on sale really made of? Stone pots and pans are comfortable for cooking and certainly well-made pots and pans exist as well as, unfortunately, scams on fake coatings are starting to emerge.
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We can trust all stone or ceramic pans? What are the coatings of non-stick pans with stone or ceramic coating that we find on sale everywhere really made of? Stone pots and pans, like soapstone ones, are convenient for cooking, and there are sure to be well-made pots and pans. Unfortunately, however, the fake upholstery scams.
The real question to ask is: how exactly is the composition of the coating of stone or ceramic pans?
On the market we see different types of non-stick pans, in particular the classic ones black coated pans and the pans with stone cladding.
Well, according to what emerges from a video of the Report, even the coating of the stone pans would be in Poly-tetra-fluoro-ethylene (PTFE), as with any other type of non-stick pan. PTFE belongs to the PFC class.
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Le stone effect pans which we find for sale on the market, but which do not correspond to real stone, are therefore one real scam. The same also applies to the so-called ceramic pans, which are nothing more than aluminum pans coated with paints containing ceramic powders, with limited adhesion to the substrate and reduced compactness.
The problem, in fact, is when this type of coating is passed off as a 'stone pan' or 'ceramic', but they have little to do with the real lava stone, soapstone or real ceramic.
Already at the beginning of 2016 Altroconsumo had already dealt with the topic stone pans and had laboratory tested 12 pans of 24 centimeters with internal stone cladding by comparing them with a Teflon pan and with one ceramic pan.
The stone pans were also tested in the kitchen.
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As for the stone pans, a high price is not necessarily synonymous with quality, because the least expensive pan in this case turned out to be the best.
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We ask a pan that it is non-stick, that it cooks the food well, that it is simple to use and safe. The stone coated pans that we commonly find on sale are they really safe?
Here the video on non-stick stone-coated pans:
So which pans to prefer?
The first precaution to take is to never touch the non-stick layer with hard objects, even wooden ones, because the matrix would still be scratched. In general, it is better to use steel containers for boiling, while terracotta is suitable for soups and stews. Finally, real stone, real ceramic, iron or cast iron as a pan.
Marta Albè
