Every Indian kitchen knows the same quiet frustration: the non-stick pan that starts out effortless and slowly gives up. The coating scratches, flakes and peels, and a pan that once released food perfectly ends up in the bin. Ember, the Bengaluru kitchenware brand, decided to attack the problem at its root — by changing the steel itself, instead of adding another layer on top of it.
The result is SuperPan, the company’s third proprietary material innovation. Powered by what Ember calls TitaniumSteel, it promises the easy food release of a non-stick pan with no coating at all — nothing to peel, nothing to wear away, and a pan built to stay in the kitchen for years.
A surface engineered into the steel, not painted on
At the heart of SuperPan is a material Ember developed after years of research, prototyping and material engineering. Using a proprietary high-temperature plasma fusion process, the company says titanium is permanently fused with stainless steel. Its patent-pending NanoFusion technology then engineers the surface at a microscopic level, creating a finely textured structure that naturally holds a thin film of oil.
That thin film is the whole trick. Food releases naturally because the surface itself is designed to hold oil where it matters, rather than relying on a chemical layer sprayed or bonded on top. The company says the result is a zero-coating, naturally non-stick cooking surface — with no PTFE, no PFAS and no synthetic non-stick layer anywhere in the build.
Five layers, built for the way India cooks
SuperPan is built as a 5-ply stainless steel pan, designed to spread heat evenly from base to rim so food cooks consistently across the whole surface. The company says it handles high heat and metal spatulas with ease, and is scratch and warp resistant — the kind of everyday toughness a pan needs when it is used for tadka in the morning, a slow curry at lunch and a quick sear at night.
Before developing SuperPan, Ember conducted qualitative research across more than 120 Indian households, studying not just what cookware people owned, but what they actually reached for every day. Stainless steel, the company notes, remains one of India’s most trusted cookware materials, accounting for around 32% of the country’s cookware market. SuperPan is Ember’s attempt to give that familiar material a completely new capability.
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The third material in Ember’s clean-kitchen story
SuperPan follows two earlier Ember innovations: Arcilla, the company’s ceramic technology, and TitaniumClad, its enamelled cast iron. Founded in 2024, Ember describes itself as India’s first 100% non-toxic, non-stick kitchenware brand, built around a clean-kitchen movement that rejects coatings that degrade into food and landfills.
SuperPan is the second innovation to emerge from the Ember Innovation Lab in India, which came into existence in 2025 and is led by Chef Saransh Goila, the company’s Chief Culinary & Innovation Officer. The brand’s wider research work is driven by its California R&D Centre, led by industrial designer Bret Recor, and brought to life in India through the lab — product design, material science and culinary insight tested through real-world cooking.
The pan is backed by a 10-year warranty, and the 26 cm SuperPan is listed on Ember’s own store at ₹6,749. It is available through embercookware.com and retail partners across India, including Amazon and select premium cookware and home retail stores.
For a country that cooks fresh food every single day, a pan that never needs recoating and never sheds its surface is a small change with an outsized payoff: one pan, bought once, cooking cleanly for years. That is the promise Ember is betting its newest material on — steel, re-engineered, doing the work a coating used to do.
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