My family bought a pan in France. There is very little information about this pan (it's a Monoprix brand), but the label attached to the pan says that the pan's material is aluminum and the coating is "Anti-stick Whitford". The pan itself looks like this:
And the label is like this:
After some online searching, it appears that "Whitford" is actually a company, not a coating type, and that company makes several kinds of non-stick pan coating. Is there some way to determine which one was used in this specific pan?
It might also be the case that "Whitford" is a common name for some specific coating type in France (where the pan was bought) or in Italy (where it was made). Then what coating is that?
Best Answer
Whitford is, in fact, a chemical company that makes nonstick coatings, so the label makes sense. Since 2016 they've been offering PTFE (Teflon) without PFOA, so that's most likely what the coating on the pan is. While Whitford does make more exotic coatings, it's not clear than any of them are used in cookware, and your pan certainly looks like regular PTFE.
Whitford also has brand names around specific coatings like Eterna, but that's just a specific application of PTFE.
So what you have is Teflon. Enjoy!