Alva Forest Carbon-Steel Frying Pan

If you’ve never cooked with a carbon-steel frying pan, this one from Alva Cookware will convince you. It gives you a mean sear like cast iron, but without the weight. Naturally nonstick, chemical-free, and slicker with every use, it’s the kind of thing you’ll keep for years and then pass down.

• Compatible with all stovetops, including induction
  
• Professional-grade carbon steel is naturally nonstick
• Pre-seasoned
• Stay-cool wood handle
  
• Sears and browns like cast iron—but it’s 30% lighter
  
• Solar-powered manufacturing and plastic-free packaging
• Free of PFAS, PTFE, PFOA, lead, and cadmium