Review of GreenPan Ovenware

GreenPan Ovenware products are a line of environmentally friendly, PTFE-free, non-stick cookware with Thermolon. I have a rectangular oven tray that has a nice deep ledge on it.

According to the product’s description, the roasting pans are made of heavy gauge aluminized steel with the patented Thermolon Rocks, the latest non-stick coating technology. The pan is indeed quite heavy for a roasting pan, but you can feel the quality in it. Also, unlike traditional PTFE-based non-stick technology, the GreenPan ovenware releases 60 percent fewer greenhouse gasses during production, and contains no toxic substances that can be released at high temperatures.

The above facts made this pan sound like a really great product, it’s always nice to know that you aren’t releasing toxins into your food.

On to my first use! I baked some ridiculously good cookies over the weekend, and thought they’d be a perfect venue to try the new GreenPan given that they required no pre-greasing so I could test out its non-stick technology. The batch of dough made a lot of cookies, so I also used some of my older non-stick cookware as well, which made for a great comparison tool.

My oven had to be heated to 350 C and the cookies were to take between 10 and 12 minutes to bake. I timed the oven for 11 minutes, and placed some onto the GreenPan, and some onto an older pan. I did this three times since I had a lot of cookies to bake.

On the GreenPan, my cookies were actually ready in the 11 minutes with a perfect golden circumference on them like they should have had. The cookies on my other cookie sheets had to be cooked for another 2-3 minutes longer, so the claim on the product that it cooks better, and that the heat is distributed more evenly giving perfect browning, baking, and crisping; is actually true! Imagine that, a product without false claims, I like that.

When it came time to take my cookies off the GreenPan, there was absolutely no difficulty, they came off very easily, and left a tiny trail of little grease bubbles behind. There were two cups of butter in those bad-boys. On my other pan, two cookies stuck a bit, leaving ‘friends’ behind.

Overall I am very satisfied with my Greenpan ovenware, and I plan to get more from their collection. The products hit shelves in January 2010 and are priced between $34.99 to $79.99. GreenPan Ovenware can be bought at Gourmet shops nationally. The company’s headquarters are in Belgium.

~Darleya~