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This is a screen-shot of "Chopped", a show on the Food Network that I watch a lot. Most of the pans on the show are stainless steel, but it seems that these pans are always the ones the chefs grab when I would grab Teflon. They don't seem as non-stick as Teflon, eggs especially seem to stick to these pans, the show doesn't seem to have any Teflon pans. What surface is this?

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The cookware used is by Zwilling JA Henckels. They are Thermolon-coated, which is why I mistook it for a Green Pan--they are the same coating (ceramic.)

You can see the cookware used in the show here:

http://shop.foodnetworkstore.com/nav/department/cookware/show/chopped/0

My original guesstimation:

This looks like a Green Pan, an attempt to make an alternative type of non-stick pan (does not use PFOA to create PTFE [Teflon])

They use ceramic to try to re-create a non-stick-ish feeling, but they definitely are not as non-stick as PTFE pans are.

http://www.green-pan.com.au/en/technology-3592.htm

I could be wrong, but I haven't seen any other pans with that colour of surface, so I'm pretty sure it's a Green Pan.

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  • AHA! That would be it. The chefs can bring their own knives, I wonder if they can bring their own pan too? I'm pretty sure I'd prefer Teflon if I wanted to fry eggs. – Jolenealaska Nov 12 '14 at 03:57
  • Teflon isn't so great for people, when the material flakes or leaches into food, so that's why there are these kinds of safe alternatives :) – Ming Nov 12 '14 at 03:59
  • Yeah, but nothing works as well for eggs! I've never had a problem with Teflon, but I know that some people avoid it like the plague. – Jolenealaska Nov 12 '14 at 04:11
  • @setek and chances of that are miniscule, plus the amount you'd have to be exposed to is far larger than you'd get from even a lot of meals cooked in that pan. – jwenting Nov 12 '14 at 11:10
  • Teflon only flakes when exposed to severely high heat...eggs should be cooked at medium heat (by 'stove top' standards). Using Teflon for eggs is perfectly safe. – Cos Callis Nov 13 '14 at 16:47
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    Newer coatings are, IMO, as usable as Teflon, and more durable and not as susceptible to high heat destruction. I scoffed at Teflon scares at fist, but it is now considered enough of a carcinogen after exposure to high heat that I now actively avoid it. And who among us never burns or overheats a pan? – dlb Aug 11 '16 at 23:00
  • @dlb my original Green Pan wasn't great at being non-stick. However, I recently picked up a RACO ceramic pan and was very (happily) surprised to find that its non-stick properties were pretty close to teflon/PTFE, if not the same! – Ming Aug 12 '16 at 02:00