Every meal touches a surface, and the surface matters. Scratched non-stick coatings can shed PFAS "forever chemicals" into food and air. The good news is the alternatives are older, cheaper, and last for decades — cast iron, carbon steel, stainless, enameled iron, glass.
You don't have to replace everything at once. Start with the pan you use daily, then build a set of materials you'd be happy cooking on for the rest of your life.
What we'd buy
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