Safe cookware finder

—filtered by what the manufacturer's own California disclosure says about forever chemicals. Every row links to the filing so you can read it yourself.

I built this tool using Defend Our Health's extensive research. They reviewed the filings of 200+ cookware brands and published the results free, which is the only reason this tool could exist. Check them out!

Disclosure data last checked —. How to read this.

How to read this

This tool reports, it does not judge. Nothing here says a pan is safe or unsafe. Every row says one thing only: what the manufacturer put in its own legally required filing. Think of it as a library catalogue, not a doctor's note. If the filing and your own judgement disagree, trust your judgement and read the filing.

Three labels that sound the same and are not

The confusion in this aisle is not an accident. Three phrases get used almost interchangeably on packaging, and they mean very different things.

PFAS-free means the whole family of forever chemicals was not intentionally added. This is the broad claim.
PFOA-free means one older, now largely phased-out chemical was not used. Almost every pan sold today can say this. It rules out one member of a family of thousands.
PTFE-free means the pan does not use the traditional Teflon-style coating. Useful, but PTFE is one member of the family too.

It is the BPA-free sticker all over again. Swap one chemical, keep the reassuring label. A pan can honestly advertise "PFOA-free" on the front of the box while its own California filing lists forever chemicals on the back.

Where the data comes from

California's Safer Food Packaging and Cookware Act, better known as AB 1200, requires any manufacturer selling cookware in California to publish a page listing the chemicals it intentionally adds that appear on the state's designated list. Because forever chemicals are listed as an entire class, adding any one of them triggers the disclosure. Since January 2024 the same information also has to appear on the label.

That means the strongest sentence this tool can give you is not an opinion from a review site. It is the manufacturer's own legal filing, linked on every row.

The brand-level groundwork here is not mine. The nonprofit Defend Our Health reviewed more than 200 cookware brands, hunted down their filings, and published a searchable directory covering over 10,000 products. Their work is the spine of this page and it is worth visiting directly. What this tool adds is the ability to research individual pans, with the practical specifications you actually shop by (e.g. oven temp, material, etc.).

What each status means

No forever chemicals. The brand filed a disclosure and it reports none intentionally added.
Line not named in disclosure. The brand does use forever chemicals, but only in specific product lines it names, and this pan's line is not one of them. This is the most common situation for a good stainless or carbon steel pan from a brand that also sells nonstick.
Brand says no, no filing found. The brand states it uses none, but no filing could be located. Sometimes that is because none is required. It is a weaker signal than a published filing, not evidence of a problem.
Couldn't determine. No filing and no clear public statement.
Contains, per the brand. This pan's line is named in the manufacturer's own disclosure. Included on purpose, because knowing which pans are in this bucket is half the point.

Honest limits

Disclosures change. Brands reformulate, and a filing accurate in June may be stale by December. Check the link before you buy.
Some filings cover a brand, not a pan. Where a brand names lines rather than model numbers, this tool maps the pan to the line and says so.
Specifications come from manufacturer pages and are shown as blank where they could not be confirmed. A blank means unverified, not zero.
Prices are bands, not quotes, and move constantly.
Skillets and air fryers so far, not the whole market. More categories coming.

Air fryers deserve their own warning

Air fryers are the worst category in this whole area, and it's worth knowing why before you shop.

Most air fryer baskets are coated, and the coating is usually the same family of chemicals the pan aisle has been arguing about for years. That part is at least predictable. The genuinely difficult part is that manufacturers file these disclosures by model number, and several brands sell near-identical model numbers with different coatings under the same product name.

The clearest example is Cosori's TurboBlaze 6.0-Quart. There is a version ending CAF-DC601 and a version ending CAF-DC601-C. Same name on the box, same shelf, one letter apart, and the coating is not the same. Both are described in marketing language that leans on the word ceramic.

So for this category the practical advice is narrower than usual: match the model number, not the product name. Read the number on the box against the number in the filing. If a listing won't tell you its full model number, that by itself is worth knowing.

The second thing to watch is manufacture date. At least one large brand's disclosure turns on when the unit was made rather than what it's called, so the same model can answer differently depending on which one is in the warehouse.