Best ceramic frying pan

For stovetop cooking, using wooden or plastic utensils, we place the Sola Koekenpan Ceramic Deluxe ø 28 cm at number 1. Our pan expert recommends it if you're also mindful of price. The pan is light, and thanks to its cool-touch handle you won't burn your fingers on the handle over the flame. Places 2 and 3 correspond to two additional needs: using the pan in the oven, and turning meat with a metal spatula.

Best ceramic frying pan

Which ceramic frying pan suits what you do with your pan?

For each position you can read what the pan can handle, what kind of handle it has, and how much it weighs.

At position 1 is the Sola Koekenpan Ceramic Deluxe ø 28 cm. It must not go in the oven, and you should not use a metal spatula in it. It does have a cool-touch handle, and it weighs 1.08 kg when empty.

The Ceramic Deluxe shares position 1 with the more affordable Sola Koekenpan Stonehenge ø 28 cm. For that pan it is not stated whether it may go in the oven or has a cool-touch handle. A metal spatula also does not belong in this pan, and it weighs 1.18 kg when empty.

The Beka Koekenpan Maestro Alu ø 28 cm is in position 2. It can go in the oven up to about 200 °C and has a cool-touch handle, but you should also avoid using a metal spatula in this pan. Empty it weighs 1.38 kg.

In position 3 is the Cookinglife Koekenpan HexaCook ø 24 cm. It may go in the oven up to 200 °C and has a cool-touch handle. A metal spatula is allowed in this pan. In the ø 24 cm version it weighs 0.83 kg when empty.

The fact that the Ceramic Deluxe may not go in the oven applies even if you see it listed as ovenproof elsewhere. The Stonehenge has the same coating as the Ceramic Deluxe. Both ranges can be viewed side by side by size on the Sola frying pans.

The reason for position 2 is the oven: the Maestro Alu may go in there. If you never use the oven for a frying pan, the Ceramic Deluxe is the lighter choice, about 300 grams less to lift.

Position 3 is a different kind of pan, with stainless steel in the cooking surface, and in that one our pan expert says a metal spatula is allowed. We sell the HexaCook under our own name, Cookinglife. A completely smooth cooking surface, without stainless steel, is what you get in positions 1 and 2.

Which ceramic frying pan suits what you do with your pan?

Is an expensive ceramic frying pan worth the money?

Partly: according to our pan expert, the price of a more expensive ceramic pan usually includes a thicker coating. However, none of the product pages for our ceramic pans state how thick that coating is, so you can't check that for each pan in advance.

There is a rule of thumb: an aluminum pan with a ceramic coating will, according to our pan expert, cook well for a few years. The cutoff is when pieces of the coating start to flake off: you'll ingest those if you keep using the pan.

If you don't want to spend more than €30 to €40, our pan expert says you'll already cook well on an aluminum pan with a coating.

Is an expensive ceramic frying pan worth the money?

What good is the Consumentenbond test if you buy from us?

Our ceramic frying pans were not included in the test in which the Consumentenbond compared pans with a ceramic coating. The setup is instructive though: 106 cooking cycles on induction, with an assessment at three moments. The big differences between the pans only appeared towards the end. A ceramic pan that sheds everything in the first weeks has not yet proven itself by that.

The base is also a point of attention even for one of our pans, because after the test no tested base remained completely flat. If you cook on induction, on the best frying pan for induction you'll find which base we recommend for that.

What good is the Consumentenbond test if you buy from us?

When won't a new ceramic frying pan solve anything?

First look at why your current pan is disappointing, because not every problem disappears with a new ceramic pan:

A film of cooking spray or baked-on fat can make a pan stick, even if the coating underneath is still intact. With cleaning your frying pan you'll be better off than with a new pan.
A more expensive coating will still be damaged by your metal spatula or the dishwasher, at best a little later, if you don't change anything. You can keep that spatula if you choose the pan in position 3.
Searing requires high heat, and if you do that often you'll see a ceramic coating wear out faster. Pans without a coating can handle that heat; see our advice on the best frying pan for more.

When won't a new ceramic frying pan solve anything?

Is a ceramic frying pan PFAS-free, including the one from GreenPan?

Thermolon, as GreenPan calls its ceramic coating, is PFAS-free for the two GreenPan sets in our range. A standard non-stick coating, such as on some of the frying pans with non-stick coating, is not listed by us as PFAS-free. The pans from our lineup are, like those GreenPan sets, PFAS-free.

If you're looking for a different size, a set of two or three pans, or cast iron under the coating, you'll find all of that in our ceramic frying pans.

Is a ceramic frying pan PFAS-free, including the one from GreenPan?

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