I was so excited to receive my 10"
Ozeri Green Earth Textured Ceramic Nonstick Frying Pan in the mail to
try.
I have wanted to try a pan that I can toss in the oven to
finish up my cooking, but haven’t gone out and purchased a solid metal pan yet
and refuse to put a pan with traditional non-stick coating into the oven due to
the chemicals in the coating.
I was excited to find out that the Ozeri Green Earth pans
use GREBLON (a natural ceramic coating from Germany which makes it free of PTFE
(PolyTetraFluoroEThylene), PFOA (PerFLuoroOctanoic Acid), and other harmful
chemicals that regular non-stick pans contain.
What is PTFE and what makes it so harmful you may ask.
PTFE is a synthetic substance with waxy properties used in traditional
non-stick pans to keep food from sticking to the surface. At very high temperatures
it begins to decompose and release fumes into the air which are documented to
be lethal to birds and small pets. You can only guess what it can do to other
animals and people who are breathing in the fumes.
Kind of scary right?
PFOA isn’t much better. PFOA is used when pans that use
PTFE are manufactured and has been classified as a ‘persistent pollutant of the
environment’ by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency).
Also pretty scary.
SO what makes GREBLON any safer to use?
Green Earth Pan’s GREBLON never releases harmful toxic fumes into the
environment, even when used at high temperatures.
This is possible because the GREBLON used is a 100% ceramic coating derived
from nature rather then from a laboratory.
Because of the natural ceramic coating, The Green Earth Pan
is much more durable and scratch-resistant than other non-stick surfaces) and
allows for the use of less cooking oil and easier cleaning over and over again!
The Green Earth Pans are also made from the highest quality
anodized aluminum that allows for even cooking and browning without getting any
hotspots.
It also has a magnetized bottom for rapid heat transfer on
induction stoves and a heat resistant silicone handle to help keep hands from
getting burned while cooking.
The version of the Green Earth Pan that I received has a
textured ceramic cooking surface to create air pockets to distribute heat
underneath the food and enhance cooking performance, which I have to admit
works amazingly.
I was so excited to cook on my Green Earth Pan for the
first time, but had a hard time deciding what I wanted to cook in it!
I wanted to make sure that it was something good, something
that would typically stick to the non-stick pans that we have, something that
may be a bit difficult to clean up after to test out all of the features.
In the end, I settled upon making a potato hash for
breakfast.
The pan did exactly as the company claims it will.
None of the potatoes, onions, garlic, or bacon bits stuck
to the pan. It cleaned extremely easily in just a bit of warm water and a
sponge, and seasoning the pan before cooking was incredibly easy as well.
I was a bit weary of “seasoning” the pan because I knew
about seasoning cast iron pans and it is a bit tiresome to season them.
It turns out that all you need to do it rub a bit of
natural cooking oil (I used olive oil) into the pan, then wiping away the
excess before cooking.
Easy as pie (ok, it’s much easier than pie)!
Between the lack of harmful chemicals, the amazing cooking,
and the easy clean up I believe that the Green Earth Pan by Ozeri may be my new
favorite pan to cook on!
You may be wondering where you can get your own Ozeri Green Earth Pan.
You can buy the Ozeri Green Earth pan in 8inch, 10 inch, or 12 inch by following this link to the products page on Amazon.com: Purchase the Ozeri Green Earth Pan
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