ProCook (affordable eco fry pans and woks)

ProCook offers a more budget-friendly range of pans (around £20) made from recycled aluminium with non-stick ceramic coatings and wood pulp handles. Despite their affordable price, these pans carry a 10-year guarantee.

Like any pan, do not expose it to high oven temperatures, and ever heat an empty pan. Reduce heat setting with induction hobs, as soon as low-medium temperature is achieve (do not juse boost setting to heat oil or fat).

Choose a few good pans to last for years, with coatings that won’t wear away (anodised aluminium is usually okay, it’s the coating that’s important). They cost a bit more, but you don’t need many.

Turn pan handles in when cooking, avoid floaty sleeves and tie long hair back. Despite claims from ‘green pan companies;, all cooking fumes are dangerous around birds. But hopefully if you live with birds, they are in a nice aviary with other birds, rather than caged in a kitchen. 

Read up on food safety for people and pets (just bin allium scraps (onion, garlic, leeks, shallots, chives) as like tomato/citrus/rhubarb scraps, acids could harm compost creatures). Pop lids inside cans for tinned ingredients, to avoid wildlife getting trapped.