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 just boost setting to heat oil or fat).

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.

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.