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Non-Stick Aluminum Frying Pan (Sartén)
Object/Artifact
A round frying pan with a spun/pressed aluminum body and a brown/bronze PTFE non-stick interior coating. The straight, slightly flared sidewall rises to a plain rim. A black molded-plastic (phenolic-type) handle with a rectangular hang-hole at its end is fixed to a cast-aluminum bracket, which is riveted to the pan body (rivet heads visible inside). The base is bare spun aluminum showing concentric turning marks. No maker’s mark, brand, or “Made in” stamp is visible on the interior or base.
2025.1.391
Purchased in Czechoslovakia by Leopoldo Arús Caraballo
Non-stick cookware was a valued modern convenience. Not sold in pre-1990s Cuba.
The Cabrera Arús family collection
Leopoldo Arús Gálvez collection
2025.1
Date: Most plausibly circa 1980s–early 1990s on the basis of the PTFE coating and handle styling (tentative).
Aluminum pan body with riveted cast-aluminum handle bracket and molded plastic handle with hang-hole.
Metal
Plastic
Aluminum (body); PTFE non-stick coating (interior); molded phenolic/plastic (handle); metal rivets.
Good
Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez
Owner
Leopoldo Arús Caraballo
Purchaser
Czechoslovakia
Eastern Europe
Europe
Purchase
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
Use
Czechoslovak domestic non-stick cookware production: general PTFE/Tefal timeline DuPont 1946; Grégoire patent 1954; Tefal 1956; non-stick pans since 1962). Sources: Štamgast & Gurmán; Bezpečnost potravin; uspesna-lecba.cz; Tefal historical pages.