About a year ago, my favorite nonstick pan crapped out, and I did a lot of market research to figure out what nonstick pan would actually last. I had gotten recommended to Berndes by a relative, and I noticed the 'eterna' pan on the Berndes website, which they featured as their longest lasting nonstick pan.I did a bit of research, and found that unlike all the other pans that berndes has, this one is coated by a company called Whitford, which specializes solely in nonstick coatings. Their 'eterna' coating process seems to be the latest & greatest, and they performed several reasonably scientific tests to prove so, with impressive results:A few words of caution: they show that metal utensils can be used with this nonstick coating. While this coating lasts longer than anything I've ever used with or without metal utensils, using plastic or silicon utensils is still the gentlest, and works just fine for flipping eggs/french toast. Their coating is extremely resistant to abrasion, beyond any other pan I've seen, but it's still not bullet proof. I betting that using plastic utensils vs. metal utensils as well as washing it with your hand instead of a nylon pad is the difference between owning it for a few years and owning it for a decade.
I've searched around for other pans made with the eterna coating, and I only found one other pan from a much less impressive brand. It even had rivets on the inside of the pan, which was a major turn off. I wish there were more eterna pans out there; I'd buy more!
My wife and I have owned this pan for more than a year, and it's still going strong like the day we bought it. We're incredibly happy with it. We'll probably continue to be happy with it for many more years to come.
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