Dear reader, once upon a lifetime ago, I wrote an article about how my GreenPan cookware was holding up after a year of use. A lot has changed since then. My boyfriend got an upgrade to fiancé, we added a puppy to our family, and I’m cooking at home more than ever. But one thing hasn’t changed: the quality of these pans.

My GreenPan Reserve Set in Sunrise continues to be the single best kitchen purchase I’ve made over the past two years. Not only do these pans allow me to avoid cooking with PFAS and forever chemicals, they also hold down the title for “most nonstick nonstick I’ve ever used.”

You can click here to grab some for yourself. Or, keep reading for more details on what makes them so great.

Flashback To Forever Ago…

Cue Back to the Future theme. Engage special effects. The year is 2022 and I am standing in my kitchen, burning pancakes, and genuinely wondering how much of my security deposit I’ll lose if I start hurling my crappy Amazon nonstick pans out the window. I decide that the effort (and money) would be better spent on some new pans.

Fast forward a few hours of googling to find me shocked (SHOCKED!) to discover that my horrible nonstick pan was made with PFAS, a dangerous forever chemical that I have been ingesting one burnt pancake at a time. 

And that is what led me to GreenPan’s Reserve set. Their ceramic nonstick is free from PFAS, PFOA, lead, and cadmium. It’s also oven-safe, diamond-infused, scratch-resistant, and usable on all stovetops. Sign me up.

That Was Then. This Is Now. 

One of the biggest complaints with ceramic nonstick cookware as a category (and especially with those super trendy brands you see advertising on Instagram all the time #notnamingnames) is that it doesn’t last very long. With one small exception, I have had the exact opposite experience. 

Through two years my pans have been stone cold killers. They’ve handled dinner parties and brunches, late night drunk meals, and early morning breakfasts with ease. But I finally found one thing I shouldn’t do in them: char stuff. 

I have an electric stove. And one day I needed to char veggies for a vegan pho recipe. Normally, I use my stainless pans for this and just spend an hour scrubbing the mess off later. That day, I forgot and used my ceramic on max heat to fully blacken some daikon radish. And finally, after over a year and a half, I had messed up one of my pans. 

That remains the only damage I’ve managed to do to my Reserve set. Seriously. And the crazy part is that it wasn’t even permanent! I bought one of GreenPan’s melamine sponges and went to town on those burnt-in black spots. And while it’s not 100% restored, I’d say that that pan is back to 90% nonstick functionality. Plenty good for most day-to-day cooking!

Most Durable Pans Ever

2 years on, if you asked me whether or not I’d buy my Reserve set again, my answer would be a resounding, “Yes!” But the truth is that I don’t think I’ll need to buy another set for a long, long time. 

I’ve been consistently impressed with GreenPan’s ceramic nonstick – it’s durable, it’s slippery, it’s easy to clean, it’s PFAS-free, it’s everything I want in a nonstick pan. If you’re looking for a cookware set that’s in it for the long haul (and is healthier for you to boot), then you can’t go wrong with the Reserve set – plus, now you can get 10% off with code PRIMARY10!