Our Ranges & Materials
AUS-ION™ is clean Australian wrought iron — you season it to build your own naturally non-stick surface. It's ideal for everyday frying, grilling, roasting, baking and searing. Acidic foods can erode the seasoning, but seasoned iron is forever renewable.
nöni™ is non-nickel ferritic stainless steel — no seasoning needed. It's ideal for wet and acidic cooking: boiling, slow cooking, sauces, soups, curries, pasta and rice. As the saying goes: cooks like iron, cleans like stainless.
The two ranges are designed to complement each other and cover all your cooking needs.
Like traditional cast iron, you season AUS-ION™ to create your own natural, forever-renewable non-stick surface — the only known natural, non-toxic non-stick. All AUS-ION™ now ships with our Quenched™ finish, so the initial oven seasoning is done for you. See the Seasoning Guide. (nöni™ stainless is not non-stick but performs well with the right balance of heat and fat.)
Our wrought iron is new, clean Australian iron machine-formed into a seamless pan from a single sheet — not the extinct old hand-wrought type. Compared with cast iron it's about half the weight, more conductive (our carbon is <0.06% vs 3–4% for cast), heats faster with less energy, and can't crack if dropped. That's why our handles can be long, vented and cool to hold. It's also backed by our multi-century warranty.
Both ranges are formed from a single monobloc sheet with no rivets, joins or welds, and no coatings or clad layers. AUS-ION™ is clean Australian iron — 2.5mm (woks & Lightning), 3mm (everyday pans) or 4mm (heavy-duty BIG pans). nöni™ is 3mm non-nickel ferritic stainless (max 0.6% nickel) custom-made in Germany and Finland, nearly twice as conductive as regular stainless. Technically the iron is a steel alloy — ~99.97% iron, 0.03% carbon — so we use "iron" and "steel" interchangeably.
RAW and SATIN are discontinued. All AUS-ION™ now ships with our Quenched™ finish — sandblasted then pre-seasoned with rice bran oil using our patented quenching process, so it's ready to cook with straight out of the box. Quenched is real, natural seasoning, not a synthetic coating.
Lightning ranges strip out every non-essential cost and feature for a lighter, lower-priced pan. AUS-ION Lightning is 2.5mm (vs 3mm), with simplified handle vents and no base stamp. nöni™ Lightning is 2mm (vs 3mm) — about 30% lighter and even more conductive. Both are still 100% Australian made from a single sheet, induction-compatible, and carry the multi-century warranty.