Brand review
Caraway has the best testing disclosure of any coated pan we have checked — a public hub, a named laboratory and a linked report. The limit is that a test only finds what it looks for.
Caraway does the thing we keep asking brands to do: it publishes. There is a testing hub, a named laboratory, and a report you can open covering over 200 PFAS compounds and more than twenty heavy metals.
That is rare enough that it deserves saying before the criticism. Almost nobody else in coated cookware does it at all.
It is a disclosure score out of 100, not a safety rating: what it is made of, who tested it, where it is made, whether the claim matches the evidence. A pan can score 20 and be perfectly fine to cook in. What a low score means is that nobody outside the company can check. The rubric is here.
$125 (10.5in)
Best testing disclosure of any coated pan here: a public testing hub, a named laboratory (Light Labs) and a linked report, covering over 200 PFAS compounds and 20+ heavy metals. But the coating recipe itself is proprietary, so whatever the tests did not look for stays unknown. They do not publish total organic fluorine, which is the screening test that would catch PFAS they weren’t looking for.
What we’d want you to know:
The full entry, with every source · The maker’s own page
The best-tested coated pan here, held back by one structural problem. The coating recipe is proprietary, so the tests can only look for compounds somebody thought to look for. Whatever is in the coating that was not on the list stays unknown, and no amount of testing against a list closes that gap.
The screening test that would is total organic fluorine — it measures fluorine of any kind rather than named compounds, and one 2025 analysis found extractable organic fluorine accounted for less than 15% of the total fluorine actually present. Caraway does not publish it. Neither does anyone else.
They also do not name a country of manufacture, which costs them the origin points outright, and the warranty excludes coating damage from high heat — worth reading before you buy a non-stick pan you intend to get hot.
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