So over the Christmas holidays our non-stick frying pan bit the dust.  You know when a non-stick pan gets that "textured" look and you look at it and realise you're eating teflon chips with your scrambled eggs?  I can't remember what brand it was but one thing about non-stick cookware is that it just doesn't seem to hold up to regular use.  Plus, the whole cooking-with chemicals thing isn't exactly the greatest either.

So imagine my surprise when Mrs. Leafy Green came home from Wal-Mart with an environmentally-friendly non-stick frying pan from Starfrit.  It's a 14-inch frying pan made from 99% recycled aluminum and labelled with 100% recycled paper.  Instead of Teflon, the pan is coated in a chemical-free ceramic powder that you can simply wash with soapy water and treat with oil as you would with a cast iron pan.  Oh, and because it's such a good heat conductor you'll use 20% less energy when you cook!  It's from the Starfrit Alternative line of cookware (they have a bunch of it), all of which use Starfrit's "Ceram-Eco" ceramic coating.

I guess this is a bit of a shameless product plug, but we've used the pan a couple of times already and it's great!  (Yo Starfrit, send us a set so we can give them away to our readers!)  These Starfrit Alterntive frying pans fit all of the criteria for an eco-friendly product: they're affordable, widely available in Canada and made from sustainable (in this case recycled) materials.  Since there is a 90% chance your current non-stick frying pan is going to bite the dust in the next 12 months, when it does you should head to Wal-Mart to check out this environmentally conscious option in cookware from Starfrit.

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