Non-toxic cookware, rated on what it’s actually made of

• The body wall is 0.4mm and the base is 2mm. The tri-ply is the base only, not the walls, so the sides are thin single-ply steel — that is a cooking-performance limitation, not a materials one, but it is what $139 buys. [1]
• “304” is asserted, not certified. No mill certificate, no test report, no third-party verification — which is true of every product Kogan sells. [1]
• Kogan does not make the obvious point in its own favour. There is no coating here, so there is nothing to flake, and the company never says so. [1]
• Its own 5-piece stainless sibling says only “stainless steel” with no grade at all — a disclosure gap inside one brand’s own range. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Ovela 9 Piece Stainless Steel Cookware Set
2. Ovela 5 Piece Stainless Steel Cookware Set — no grade stated

• Silence from Essteele is worth more than Baccarat’s claim. An uncoated steel pan qualifies as PFAS-free by construction; saying so is marketing, not information. [2]
• “MADE IN ITALY — Italian designed and manufactured”, stated plainly. Very few brands in this table say where the thing was made. [1]
• Lifetime warranty, oven to 260°C, genuinely dishwasher safe. [1]
• No third-party testing or certification published, which is true of every product in this Australian table. [1]
• Myer’s own listing for this set publishes no material information whatsoever — not the alloy, not the origin, not the warranty. Everything above comes from Essteele. [3]

Sources (3)

1. Essteele Per Vita 5 Piece Cookware Set
2. Baccarat iD3 stainless set — “Chemical free - free from PTFE, PFAS, PFOA, Lead and Cadmium”
3. Myer listing — no material information published

• Full-clad versus disc-base changes how evenly the sides heat. It is the reason for the price difference, and it appears nowhere in the retailer listing. [3]
• “MADE IN ITALY - Italian designed and manufactured”. Lifetime warranty. Oven to 260°C. “TRULY DISHWASHER SAFE”, which is their capitalisation. [1]
• No coating, so no PFAS question arises and Essteele makes no claim. Consistent with the rest of the range. [1]
• No third-party testing published. [1]
• Being cleared at 70% off RRP. Myer’s listed RRPs on this category run high — it shows Baccarat’s iD3 set at $1,129.99 RRP, above what Baccarat itself publishes. [2] [3]

Sources (3)

1. Essteele Per Amore clad 4 piece set
2. Myer — Essteele Per Amore 4 piece
3. Myer — Baccarat iD3 6 piece set, RRP $1,129.99

• Baccarat calls this a “LIFETIME GUARANTEE” and defines it on the same page as 25 years. A lifetime guarantee that expires is not one, and the contradiction sits in a single block of text. [1]
• Oven to 220°C without lids, 180°C with them — the lower figure implies a non-metal lid component that is never named. [1]
• “Made in China”, stated plainly. Very few brands in this table say where the thing was made. [1]
• No third-party testing published, and no AB 1200 filing exists for Baccarat — the brand does not appear in Defend Our Health’s index. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Baccarat iconiX 4 Piece Stainless Steel Cookware Set
2. Defend Our Health — cookware materials disclosures index

• The Australian price is roughly four times the US price for the same skillet. Shop it — it varies a lot between Minimax, House, Everten and Amazon AU. [1]
• Lodge publishes a California AB 1200 disclosure listing the elements in seasoned cast iron. No Australian law required it; it exists because of a US state rule and it happens to be readable from here. [2]
• Same warranty caveat as everywhere: the lifetime cover excludes rust, pitting, sticky seasoning and flaking, which is most of what actually goes wrong. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Lodge cast iron skillet 26cm at Minimax
2. Lodge California AB 1200 materials disclosure

• The claim is “Chemical free - free from PTFE, PFAS, PFOA, Lead and Cadmium”. This is a bare stainless pan. It has no coating, so none of those were ever plausible — the claim rules out things that were never in it. Every uncoated steel pan on earth qualifies. [1]
• “Chemical free” is not a meaningful statement about an object made of metal. [1]
• The core of the impact-bonded base is not named. It is almost certainly aluminium, but they do not say. [1]
• No third-party testing published. [1]
• The lifetime guarantee is 25 years and excludes appliances and accessories. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Baccarat iD3 stainless frypan 30cm

• No third-party testing published. The claim rests on there being no coating to test, which is fair — but it is an argument from design, not a report. [1]
• Their own blog markets against Australia’s July 2025 PFAS ban as though it validates the product. That ban covers three substances — PFOA, PFOS and PFHxS. It does not cover PTFE, and it was never going to apply to an uncoated iron pan. The pan is fine; the framing is a stretch. [2]
• The “multi-century warranty” excludes the two things most likely to happen: “Induction warping and thermal shock is not covered”, and rust and seasoning problems are treated as maintenance. [3]
• $290 is a lot for an uncoated iron pan. You are paying for Australian manufacture and the seamless single-sheet build, not for better disclosure than a $25 Lodge. [1]

Sources (3)

1. Solidteknics AUS-ION 30cm frypan
2. Solidteknics blog on the Australian PFAS ban
3. Solidteknics warranty terms

• The grade matters. 304 and 430 behave differently, and the page gives you no way to know which you are buying. [1] [2]
• “Cooking Surface: Polished finish” is a finish, not a material. It sits in the field where the alloy belongs. [1]
• “Lid Material: Stainless steel + Glass” is properly split. The handle material is not stated anywhere. [1]
• Oven safe and dishwasher safe are both claimed with no temperature ceiling. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Ovela 5 Piece Stainless Steel Cookware Set
2. Ovela 9 Piece set, which does state 304

• The statutory filing discloses Aluminum, Chromium compounds, Nickel compounds, Iron and Manganese compounds in the substrate and handles, and states the Thermolon food-contact surface contains none of the listed chemicals. [2]
• Worth reading carefully: the Australian Thermolon page says flatly that “PFAS, Lead, Cadmium, etc., are not put into it”, while the same company’s AB 1200 disclosure lists Lead and Cadmium for GreenPan and GreenLife appliances. The Australian page draws no line between cookware and appliances, so the “etc.” and the itemised list point in opposite directions. [1] [2]
• “Independent testing by highly professional, accredited third-party labs” — the labs are never named and no report is published. Compliance is claimed against FDA 21 CFR 175.300, EC 1935/2004 and LFGB. [3]
• Country of manufacture is not published on either the Australian or the US site. [1] [3]

Sources (3)

1. GreenPan Australia — Thermolon explained
2. GreenPan California AB 1200 disclosure
3. GreenPan — safety of our product

• The seasoning is “Pre-seasoned with vegetable Oil” — a category, not a named oil. We dock Lodge the same point for “100% natural vegetable oil”, and Solidteknics earns back the point by naming rice bran. [1] [2]
• “2.5-3.00mm gauge heavy duty material” describes thickness, not composition. The steel grade is not published. [1]
• “Made in Taiwan” — worth noting against the Danish manufacture of the coated Classic line from the same brand. [1]
• “Handwash in hot water only - do not use dishwasher or dishwashing detergent”. That is the trade-off for bare steel, and it is honest. [1]
• No warranty published for this line, while the coated Classic range carries ten years. [1] [3]

Sources (3)

1. Scanpan Black Iron Carbon Steel Fry Pan 22cm
2. David Jones listing
3. Scanpan Classic Induction 20cm — 10 year warranty, coated line

• We checked the Australian enamel explainer, the material-choice guide and the care pages. The strongest statement anywhere is that the enamel “is completely hygienic and will not absorb odors or flavors”. No lead figure, no cadmium figure, no standard, no laboratory. [1] [2]
• Le Creuset’s California AB 1200 page is not a disclosure. It is one sentence pointing to an external product database: “Please click HERE to search specific product disclosures”. Every other brand in this table that has an AB 1200 obligation publishes the chemicals inline. [3]
• The 260°C oven ceiling is set by the knob, not the pot. Cast iron and enamel do not care; the phenolic does. The listing gives one number and does not separate the two. [1]
• Myer publishes nothing — not the word enamel, not France, not the warranty — on a $512 item. [4]
• The same brand gives French cast iron a lifetime warranty and Thai stoneware ten years. That gap is a materials-and-origin signal buried in a warranty field. [5]

Sources (5)

1. Le Creuset Australia — Signature 24cm round casserole
2. Le Creuset — sand and black satin enamel explainer
3. Le Creuset — California chemical disclosures for cookware
4. Myer — Le Creuset Signature 24cm casserole
5. Le Creuset Australia — stoneware mug, 10 year warranty, made in Thailand

• Target’s template has a dedicated materials field. On four products we checked it contains an internal SKU description instead of a material: “5PCE STONE GREY COOKSET”, “5PC S/S TRIPLY C/WARE”, “3PCE N/S COOKSET”, “12PC GLASS FOOD STORAGE”. [1] [2] [3] [4]
• Steel grade not published. No 304, no 430, no 18/10 anywhere. [1]
• Handle and lid materials not stated. [1]
• The $99 flagship has no published warranty, while Target’s $55 aluminium set carries twelve months. [1] [2]

Sources (4)

1. Target — Anko 5 Piece Stainless Steel Tri-Ply Cookware Set
2. Target — 5 Piece Cookware Set Stone Grey, materials field “5PCE STONE GREY COOKSET”
3. Target — Non-Stick Carbon Steel Cookware Set, materials field “3PCE N/S COOKSET”
4. Target — Anko Set of 12 Glass Food Storage, materials field “12PC GLASS FOOD STORAGE”

• They will name the trace elements in the iron you never eat off and not the composition of the glass you do. Nothing on lead, cadmium, heavy metals or testing appears anywhere. [2]
• Oven safe “up to 260°C with lid, without lid oven safe up to 482°C”. That 222-degree gap is the knob, and the Australian page never says what the knob is made of. [1]
• No PFAS, PFOA, lead or cadmium statement of any kind — not even the reassuring boilerplate most brands offer. [1]
• Zwilling owns Staub, so the “brand page” and the “distributor page” are the same company. There is no second source. [1]
• David Jones was unreachable to us — every product page returns a bot challenge rather than content — so the DJ price and listing wording could not be checked. The price above is Zwilling’s own. [3]

Sources (3)

1. Zwilling Australia — Staub Round Cocotte 24cm
2. Zwilling cookware FAQ — the iron is specified, the enamel is not
3. David Jones listing (page returns a bot challenge)

• Big W’s own Masterclass ceramic saucepan, same line, same colourway, same stated construction, carries no PFAS claim at all. Either the claim applies to the range and is missing there, or it does not and it is over-reaching here. Nothing published resolves it. [2]
• “Ceramic” names a family, not a chemistry. There is no sol-gel detail, no silica content, no binder. [1]
• No oven rating, despite a tempered glass lid and a silicone grip that both have temperature limits. [1]
• No warranty, no country of manufacture, no certifier for the PFAS-free claim. [1]
• Big W’s parent group does have a PFAS policy — POL.088, updated May 2025, listed by name on the supplier portal and hosted behind a supplier login. Its scope is unverifiable from outside. [3]

Sources (4)

1. Big W — Masterclass Ceramic Coated Frypan 30cm
2. Big W — Masterclass Ceramic Coated Saucepan 20cm, no PFAS claim
3. BIG W vendor portal — POL.088 PFAS Policy V2

• Stronger claim, same absence of evidence. No laboratory, no standard, no report backs “free from PFAS, PFOA, lead and cadmium”. It is Kogan’s word. [1]
• The actual ceramic system is not named — no sol-gel, no silica, no binder. “Ceramic” is where the disclosure stops. [1]
• Oven safe to 280°C, dishwasher safe, induction compatible, all stated clearly. [1]
• The green colourway of the identical set sells for $10 less on the same site. Same spec, different price. [2]
• Kogan’s Ovela cookware makes PFAS-class claims while Kogan’s own-brand air fryers make no chemical claim at all. Two standards, one company. [3]

Sources (3)

1. Ovela 9 Piece Ceramic Cookware Set with Utensils
2. Ovela 9 Piece Ceramic Set, green — identical spec, $10 less
3. Kogan 10L Dual Zone Air Fryer — no chemical claim of any kind

• Still unsubstantiated. No lab, no standard, no report — and PFAS-free is a much harder claim to stand behind than PFOA-free. [1]
• “Granite” is a finish name. There is no granite in the pan. The title says granite, the spec field says ceramic, and they are the same layer under two names. [1]
• No oven rating published, and the handles are bakelite — which almost certainly means it is not oven safe. The page is silent rather than saying so. [1]
• Kogan’s own Ovela Moderno set, same brand and category, says only “Non-stick” and makes no chemical claim whatsoever. Do not let one SKU’s claim carry to another. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Ovela 5 Piece Granite Non-Stick Induction Cookware Set
2. Ovela Moderno 4 Piece set — no chemical claim at all

• Not one premium enamelled-cast-iron brand sold in Australia publishes leach test results. Chasseur, Le Creuset, Staub and Falcon are all silent, at every price from $80 to $870. [1] [2]
• The 220°C / 250°C oven split is set by the knob, not the pot. Black knob 220°C, stainless knob 250°C — and the black knob’s material is not stated. [1]
• The care page permits dishwasher use; the product page advises against it. Both are Chasseur’s. [1] [3]
• Price sanity check: Myer lists this line at $869 while Chasseur Australia sells the same family direct at $329 against a $549 RRP. Treat Myer RRPs in this category as promotional. [4]
• Separately, Chasseur’s enamel-on-steel range carries NO origin statement at all. The French provenance is stated for the cast iron only, and shoppers will read it across. [5]

Sources (5)

1. Chasseur Australia — Round French Oven
2. Chasseur — the cast iron advantage
3. Chasseur — manufacturing history
4. Myer listing at $869
5. Chasseur enamelled steel range — no origin stated

• That admission is on a corporate explainer page. The product page carries only the three noughts. A shopper reading the listing alone would conclude the pan is fluorochemical-free; it is not, and Tefal says so two clicks away. [1] [2]
• “Infused with titanium” describes a hardness reinforcement in a fluoropolymer matrix, not a titanium surface. [1]
• Body, handle and lid are all named stainless — genuinely good, and the reason this scores above the hard-anodised set in the same range. [1]
• Tefal does maintain an AB 1200 disclosure and Defend Our Health records it as disclosing PFAS. Country of manufacture is not published for this line. [3]

Sources (3)

1. Tefal Australia — Jamie Oliver Cook's Classic All-In-One Pan 30cm
2. Tefal — “Our non-stick coating contains PTFE, which is a specific type of PFAS”
3. Defend Our Health — cookware materials disclosures index

• “PFOA-free” excludes a substance restricted under the Stockholm Convention since 2020. It is true of essentially every compliant pan on earth and tells you nothing about PTFE or other PFAS. [1]
• The description contains the words “crafted for crafted for versatility”. Unedited supplier copy, which is exactly the process that leaves materials fields blank elsewhere in the range. [1]
• Kmart appears to list the same product twice under two SKUs, with the second carrying a different title and description. [2]
• Stainless handle named, no grade. Exterior not described. No warranty on the page, no country of manufacture, no third-party testing — true of every Kmart product we checked. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Kmart — 28cm Green Ceramic Non-Stick Frypan
2. Kmart — 28cm Ceramic Non-Stick Frypan Green, apparent duplicate SKU

• “PFOA-free, heat-resistant surface” — heat-resistant to what? No temperature is given anywhere on the page. [1]
• No lid is listed for a saucepan, so there is no lid material question, which is one way to score well. [1]
• No warranty, no country of manufacture, no third-party testing. [1]
• Compare Kmart’s 2-pack of “Ceramic Coated Non-Stick Fry Pans” at $12, where the word ceramic appears in the title and then never again in the body — the description calls the surface only “the durable non-stick coating”. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Kmart — 16cm Ceramic Non-Stick Saucepan Blue
2. Kmart — 2 Pack Ceramic Coated Non-Stick Fry Pans

• Correction worth knowing: Alex Liddy is not Myer’s house brand. It belongs to Global Retail Brands — the House, MyHouse and Robins Kitchen group, the same stable as Baccarat and Salt&Pepper. Myer merely stocks it. [2]
• alexliddy.com.au publishes no product, material or company information whatsoever. The only place the material appears is the parent group’s own retail site. [2]
• “Made in China”, stated plainly, which is more than most. [1]
• No warranty published. No lead or cadmium statement. No third-party testing. [1]

Sources (2)

1. House (Global Retail Brands) — Alex Liddy Classic Round Casserole
2. Alex Liddy brand site — no product or material information

• Scanpan’s California disclosure names Stratanium explicitly and lists “Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)”, “Polytetrafluoroethylene” and FEP-type copolymers, plus a Proposition 65 warning: “Some Scanpan products may expose you to chemicals including Tetrafluoroethylene which are known to the State of California to cause cancer”. [2]
• Australian buyers see the marketing. Californian buyers see the cancer warning. Same coating, same company, and the difference is that California has a disclosure law and Australia does not. [1] [2]
• Scanpan does sell a genuinely PFAS-free line — LEAP, a sol-gel ceramic. The Classic Induction sold here is not it, and the two are easy to confuse by name. [3]
• We score the AB 1200 declaration as a statutory materials filing, not as third-party testing: no laboratory is named and no report is published. [2]
• Ten-year warranty, oven to 250°C, made in Denmark, metal-utensil safe. All of that is real and none of it is the question. [1]

Sources (3)

1. Scanpan Australia — Classic Induction Frypan 20cm
2. Scanpan California Consumer Right to Know Disclosure
3. Scanpan FAQ — “our non-stick coatings do contain PTFE”

• Sister brand Anolon does exactly the same thing: “PFOA-free” on the Australian page, “contains intentionally added PFAS” on its own disclosure site. Both are Meyer Group, as are Raco and Essteele. [2]
• The durability claim is “130x longer-lasting than competition” and “350,000 scrapes without scratches”. No laboratory is named and no standard is cited for either figure. [1]
• Country of manufacture not published. [1]
• Myer’s listing for this pan publishes no material information at all. Across fifteen Myer product pages, from $10 containers to a $799 oven, we found no description, specification or material text — the content is rendered client-side and is not in the page. Myer is a price source, not an information source. [3]

Sources (3)

1. Circulon Australia — ScratchDefense A1 skillet 25.4cm
2. Circulon AB 1200 disclosure — “contains intentionally added PFAS”
3. Myer — Circulon ScratchDefense A1 frypan

• Four Meyer Group brands are sold in Australia — Anolon, Circulon, Raco and Essteele. Not one of them names PTFE on an Australian page. The group’s own US disclosure sites confirm PTFE, FEP and PFA are intentionally added. [2] [3]
• “Twice as strong as stainless steel” is unsourced. [1]
• Phenolic SureGrip handle named. Country of manufacture not published. [1]
• Myer’s brand blurb — “Anolon, having invented the first hard-anodised non-stick cookware, represents the pinnacle of cookware development” — is the only material-adjacent text Myer publishes about this brand anywhere. [4]

Sources (4)

1. Anolon Australia — Endurance+ French Skillet 28cm
2. Anolon AB 1200 disclosure — “contains intentionally added PFAS”
3. Circulon AB 1200 disclosure, same group
4. Myer — Anolon brand page

• Maxwell & Williams nowhere states where this casserole is cast, enamelled or assembled. A shopper reading the collection page will conclude Australian manufacture from a sentence that only claims Australian ore. We do not score ore as origin. [1] [2]
• Handle and knob materials are not published. The lid is described by its condensation nodules, not its material. [1]
• “Food-safe” is asserted and never evidenced. No standard, no lab, no test. [1]
• Warranty and oven temperature are behind accordions that do not render on the maker’s own page. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Maxwell & Williams — Cast Iron Round Casserole 26cm
2. Myer listing

• Nothing backs it. No lab, no certificate, no test method — and a PFAS-free claim is much harder to stand behind than a PFOA-free one. [1]
• Now compare its own sibling. The plain Easycook non-stick frypan, $4 more expensive, in the same range, on the same site, offers only “PFOA-free non-stick” with no chemistry and no supplier. The gap between the two listings is Wiltshire telling you by omission what the other one is. [2]
• Handle material and exterior coating are not published. [1]
• “Do not use cookware in an oven, microwave oven, under a grill or on an open campfire.” A stovetop-only pan, stated plainly. Five-year guarantee. Country of manufacture not published. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Wiltshire Easycook Ceramic Non-Stick Frypan 26cm
2. Wiltshire Easycook Non-Stick Frypan 26cm — “PFOA-free”, no chemistry

• A brand’s provenance does not transfer between its ranges, and this is the clearest case of it in the table. The cast iron is French since 1924; the enamelled steel says nothing. [1] [2]
• Steel grade and gauge not published. Handle, knob and lid materials not published. [1]
• No enamel composition, no lead or cadmium statement, no third-party testing. [1]
• No warranty, oven rating or dishwasher guidance published for this range. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Chasseur Australia — enamelled steel range
2. Chasseur — manufacturing history, which is about the cast iron

• “TITANIUM” is a coating trade name, not titanium metal. It describes a hardness reinforcement in a fluoropolymer matrix. [1]
• Tefal publishes the best testing language in this table and still names nobody: “Tefal non-stick coated cookware products are subject to very regular analyses carried out by independent laboratories”. No laboratory, no method, no report, no date. [2]
• The same spec sheet says dishwasher “YES” and then recommends hand washing only, to extend the life of the coating. [1]
• “Designed and manufactured in France”, which is a real origin statement and rarer than it should be. [1]
• Myer publishes none of this. Its listing carries a price, a colour and a star rating. [3]

Sources (3)

1. Tefal Unlimited range
2. Tefal cookware commitments — its published PTFE position
3. Myer — Tefal Unlimited twin pack

• No PFAS, PFOA or PTFE claim at all — not even PFOA-free. Notable, because the sister Granite range from the same company does make a PFOA claim. Same brand, same category, inconsistent disclosure. [1] [2]
• The range page says only “As durable as a rock” and carries no technical content whatsoever. [3]
• “700,000 cycles” is given with no test method and no comparator. [1]
• “Made in China”, stated. Oven to 220°C. The “LIFETIME GUARANTEE” is defined as 25 years on the same page. [1]

Sources (3)

1. Baccarat Rock 4 Piece Non-Stick Cookware Set
2. Baccarat Granite 4 Piece set — “PFOA pollution free”
3. Baccarat Rock range page

• “Bakelite handle” is named, which is more than most. Bakelite is phenol formaldehyde resin; the page does not say so, but naming the material at all puts it ahead of Kmart’s own $8 jumbo frypan, whose specification block contains no material field and does not state the base metal either. [1] [2]
• Not compatible with induction, indoor use only, twelve-month warranty. [1]
• No PFAS or PTFE statement anywhere. Across every Kmart page we checked, product and corporate, the word PFAS appears zero times. [1]
• Country of manufacture not stated, as on all 28 Kmart products we looked at. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Kmart — 28cm Aluminium Non-Stick Frypan
2. Kmart — 30cm Non-Stick Jumbo Frypan, no material field at all

• The group pattern is strong enough to be worth knowing and not strong enough to score. Four Meyer Group brands in Australia, not one names PTFE locally; two of them admit it in US filings. [2] [3]
• Raco’s Minerale line goes further in wording and no further in substance: “PFOA, Lead and Cadmium Free Nonstick”, “reinforced with hard mineral particles”, “Designed and made in Italy”. Three exclusions, still no PTFE or PFAS statement. [4]
• Data hygiene warning: raco.com.au served a different product under a Contemporary 24cm URL — a Minerale 30cm. Do not scrape that site unattended. [4]
• Phenolic handle named. Country of manufacture not published for the Contemporary line. Limited lifetime warranty, oven to 200°C. [1]

Sources (4)

1. Raco Contemporary Nonstick Induction Frypan
2. Circulon AB 1200 disclosure, same group
3. Anolon AB 1200 disclosure, same group
4. Raco Minerale frypan — the fuller claim wording

• The one product where an Australian retailer names a cookware coating, names something that cannot be the coating. We score the food-contact surface as unstated, because what is stated is not it. [1]
• The handle is listed twice with two different materials: “Handle: Thermoplastic rubber (TPR)” in the materials field, and “Soft touch silicone coated bakelite handle” in the features. TPR, silicone and bakelite are three different things. [1]
• “Body: Forged looking aluminium”. The page concedes in its own materials field that the forged appearance is cosmetic. [1]
• “Exterior: Heat-resistant paint” is a second undisclosed coating, named by function. [1]
• “PFOA-free coating” is the chemical claim. No PFAS or PTFE statement. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Target — Anko Non-Stick Frypan Linear 32cm

• “Oven safe” is claimed with no maximum temperature, on a coating whose composition is undisclosed. The number that would make the claim useful is the one missing. [1] [2]
• “PFOA-free” is the whole chemical statement. [1]
• Sold under the same Anko brand at both Kmart and Target. Target Australia’s own-brand kitchenware is Anko — both are Wesfarmers’ Kmart Group, so the two shopfronts are one supplier. [3]
• Stainless handle named, no grade. No warranty on the Kmart page, no country of manufacture, no third-party testing. [1]

Sources (3)

1. Kmart — 24cm Hard Anodised Non-Stick Frypan
2. Kmart — 32cm Hard Anodised Frypan, materials field omits the coatings
3. Kmart Group Ethical Sourcing Code — “Kmart Australia, Target Australia and Anko Global”

• Kmart uses the word “stone” two different ways in one aisle. Here it is a coating description. On the $62 five-piece set it is a colour: “Colour: Stone grey”. Neither set names the actual coating. [2]
• That $62 set is stranger still — it never says it is non-stick, never names a coating, lists only aluminium and tempered glass, and then claims “this PFOA-free design”. A PFOA-free claim is only meaningful about a coating the page will not admit exists. [2]
• “Making oil and butter-free cooking possible” is a health framing resting on an unnamed release surface. [1]
• Glass lids, type not stated. Soft-touch bakelite handles, named. No warranty on the page, no country of manufacture. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Kmart — 5 Piece Cookware Set
2. Kmart — 5 Piece Cookware Set Stone Grey

• “Granite” is a marketing texture name. There is no granite in the pan and the coating chemistry is never published. [1]
• Tempered glass lids are named. Handle material is not published on this page. [1]
• “Made in China”, stated. The “LIFETIME GUARANTEE” is 25 years. [1]
• No oven rating published for this set, and no AB 1200 filing exists for the brand. [1] [2]

Sources (2)

1. Baccarat Granite 4 Piece Cookware Set
2. Defend Our Health — cookware materials disclosures index

• The coating supplier is named — ILAG, a Swiss coatings maker — and the line is named. Neither tells you the chemistry, and ILAG’s Maximising Green is not stated to be ceramic. [1]
• “PFOA-free” is the only chemical claim. No PFAS or PTFE statement. Compare the sibling Easycook Ceramic at $45, which excludes PFAS, PFOA, PFOS and PTFE by name. [2]
• 90% recycled aluminium is a real and checkable claim about the body. It is also the part nobody was worried about. [1]
• Glass lids named; handle material not published. Not oven safe. Five-year guarantee. Country of manufacture not published. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Wiltshire Eco Cookware 3 Piece Set
2. Wiltshire Easycook Ceramic Frypan — the fuller exclusion

• The health framing is “The end result, healthier cooking!” That rests entirely on using less oil, and it is attached to a coating whose composition the brand declines to state. [1]
• Solid stainless steel handles are named. Lid materials are not. [1]
• The sibling Tan-ium range has the same Durapan coating and a name that reads as titanium — which the brand never claims is in it. The name is doing work the disclosure does not support. [2]
• Country, warranty, oven rating and dishwasher guidance: none published. Salt&Pepper product pages do not render at all; this comes from the collection page. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Salt&Pepper Re-lite collection
2. Salt&Pepper Tan-ium collection

• The product name describes the body. The food-contact surface is something else, and the listing does not flag the difference. [1]
• “PFOA free” is the chemical claim, which is itself a tell: you do not need a PFOA claim on bare stainless. [1]
• “Stay cool riveted long handle” — material not published. [1]
• Compare the Anko Tri-Ply set at $99, which genuinely does have an uncoated stainless cooking surface and says so. Same brand, same shop, opposite answer. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Target — Anko Stainless Steel Frypan 28cm
2. Target — Anko 5 Piece Tri-Ply Stainless set

• “Stone” is a finish descriptor. There is no stone in the pan, and no chemistry is named anywhere on the page. [1]
• No PFAS, PFOA, PTFE or BPA statement — unlike the ceramic sibling at $29, which claims PFAS-free. [1] [2]
• Handle material, country of manufacture, warranty, oven rating and dishwasher guidance: none published. [1]
• Big W’s own worst case is the Masterclass 5-piece set at $62, whose entire description is that the pieces are “durable, pieces designed for long lasting use” — mangled comma included — with no material named for any of the five. [3]

Sources (3)

1. Big W — Masterclass Non-Stick Frying Pan 30cm Stone
2. Big W — Masterclass Ceramic Coated Frypan 30cm, which claims PFAS-Free
3. Big W — Masterclass Cookware Set 5 Piece, no materials at all

• No PFAS, PFOA, PTFE or BPA statement. Not a weaker claim — no claim. [1]
• “Ergonomic handle with hanging hole” — material not published. [1]
• No warranty, no oven rating, no dishwasher guidance, no country of manufacture. The page gives cooktop compatibility and nothing else. [1]
• Big W’s house brands disclose less than the branded goods on the same shelf. Circulon’s listing at Big W says “PFOA free” in the product title; Brilliant Basics says only “non-stick”. The house brand is the disclosure floor. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Big W — Brilliant Basics Non-Stick Frypan 28cm

• “Oven Safe” with no temperature limit — the only number that makes an oven claim useful on a coated pan. [1]
• No steel grade: no 18/10, no 304, no 430. [1]
• No PFAS, PFOA or PTFE statement. [1]
• Handles, country of manufacture, warranty and dishwasher guidance: none published. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Big W — Masterclass Tri-Ply Hybrid Non-Stick Frypan Set

• “Never use cookware on high heat” is an odd instruction for carbon steel, which is prized for high-heat searing. It reads like a coating temperature limit attached to a coating nobody will name. [1]
• The specification block has no material field. The word carbon steel appears only in the title. [1]
• Target sells what appears to be the same set for $60 with the materials field filled in as “3PCE N/S COOKSET” — a product code where a material belongs — and with the same induction contradiction. [2]
• Glass lids, type not stated. Handles not described. Twelve-month warranty, country of manufacture not stated. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Kmart — 3 Piece Non-Stick Carbon Steel Cookware Set
2. Target — Non-Stick Carbon Steel Cookware Set, materials field “3PCE N/S COOKSET”

• A lifetime warranty on a coating that cannot go above 180°C is an odd pairing, and the page does not explain the limit. [1]
• “Soft-touch” handles — the soft-touch material is not published. Bakelite, silicone or something else is not stated. [1]
• “Superb abrasion resistance” is asserted with no test method. [1]
• No PFAS or PTFE statement, no country of manufacture, no third-party testing. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Pyrolux Pyrostone Fry Pan 20cm

• This is the cleanest house-brand case in the table. A department store sells its own cookware and there is no manufacturer document in existence to read. [2]
• Handle, lid and country of manufacture: none published. No warranty, no oven rating, no dishwasher guidance. [1]
• Its stablemate, the Cooks Collective cast iron sauté, scores zero — Myer gives “cast iron” and a colour, and no material fact exists anywhere for the enamel, the handle or the knob. [3]
• Correction worth noting: Alex Liddy is often assumed to be Myer’s house brand and is not. The Cooks Collective is. [2]

Sources (3)

1. Myer — The Cooks Collective Cast Aluminium Non-Stick 10 Piece Cook Set
2. The only web presence for the brand — a cooking-school page
3. Myer — The Cooks Collective Cast Iron Sauté 28cm

• No PFAS, PTFE, lead or cadmium statement — unlike the Easycook Ceramic from the same maker, which excludes all four by name. [2]
• “Stay cool” handle — material not published. [1]
• Not oven safe: “Do not use cookware in an oven, microwave oven, under a grill or on an open camp fire.” [1]
• Five-year guarantee. Country of manufacture not published. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Wiltshire Cucina Induction Non-Stick Frypan 20cm
2. Wiltshire Easycook Ceramic Frypan 26cm

• Two saucepans, a casserole and two frypans. Not one material named — not the metal, not the coating, not the handles, not the “glass lid” type. [1]
• “Dishwasher safe” and induction compatibility are both stated. Composition is not. [1]
• No PFAS, PFOA, PTFE or BPA claim, no warranty, no country of manufacture, no testing. [1]
• Big W’s Masterclass stainless 3-piece at $39 does slightly better, naming stainless steel and glass — but no grade, no clad construction, no handle material. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Big W — Masterclass Cookware Set 5 Piece
2. Big W — Masterclass Stainless Steel Cookware Set 3 Piece

• There is no brand website. The only web presence is a Perth cooking-school page that contains no statement about cookware, coatings or manufacture. [2]
• No enamel composition, no lead or cadmium statement, no handle or knob material, no country, no warranty, no oven rating. [1]
• A score of zero means we looked and found nothing published — not that the pan is bad. It may be perfectly good. Nobody will say what it is. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Myer — The Cooks Collective Cast Iron Sauté with Lid 28cm
2. The only web presence for the brand