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Commercial Cookware Attributes

Commercial cookware is the smallwares block a foodservice equipment and supply distributor sells hardest: stock pots, sauce pans, sauté pans, fry pans. Buyers are chefs replacing a warped pot, chains standardizing a spec across 400 units, and dealers spec'ing a kitchen through AutoQuotes.

The data is hard because the spine attribute — gauge — is material-dependent and usually arrives as free text. Aluminum gauge follows Brown & Sharpe, so 8-gauge aluminum and 8-gauge stainless are unrelated thicknesses. Capacity ships in quarts from domestic lines and litres from European ones. Base construction — what decides whether a pot works on induction — is usually a sentence in a PDF, not a field.

Standards drift on top. NSF/ANSI 2 covers commercial pots and pans, NSF 390 covers retail consumer cookware, and catalogs collapse both into an "NSF Certified" tag. Since Minnesota's PFAS prohibition took effect January 1, 2025, coating chemistry is a ship-to-state attribute — while most records still say "Non-Stick: Yes".

Core

Every SKU needs these. Without them the record is not a product, it is a row.

Cookware Type
enum
Stock Pot

The first facet on every rail. Determines the whole downstream spec set — a brazier and a stock pot share almost no attributes.

Nominal Capacity
number · qt
20 qt

Sized to batch and to the range. Buyers filter in bands (1-8, 9-25, 26-80, 83-200 qt) before they look at anything else.

Body Material / Alloy
enum
3004 aluminum

Drives heat response, reactivity with acidic product, weight, and price. The alloy matters: 3004 work-hardens where 3003 dents.

Wall Gauge / Thickness
number · ga (B&S) or mm
8 ga (3.26 mm)

Separates standard-weight from heavy-duty within one product line. Thin walls warp on a flat-top and come back as returns.

Top Diameter
number · in
12 in

Decides burner fit and how many pots land on a range at once. Also the number that determines which cover fits.

Overall Height
number · in
10 in

Tall-narrow versus wide-shallow at the same capacity changes evaporation rate and whether the pot clears a low salamander.

Handle Attachment
enum
Welded (spot welded)

Welded handles leave no interior fastener to trap food; riveted handles are easier to replace. Health inspectors notice.

Cover Included
enum
Without Lid

Most pots ship bare. If the record doesn't say, the order goes out short and the operator calls the same day.

Manufacturer Part Number
identifier
4305

How chefs and dealers actually search. Vollrath 4305 and 67510 are different pots in the same family.

GTIN-14 / UPC
identifier
10029419789549

Required by marketplaces and any GDSN publication. Case GTIN differs from each GTIN on multi-packs.

Differentiating

What buyers actually compare on. This is where catalogs win or lose the filter.

Base Construction
enum
Stainless steel with aluminum-clad bottom

Single-ply, double-thick, encapsulated disc, clad bottom, or fully clad. This is what a buyer is really comparing when they compare price.

Induction Compatible
boolean
true

Aluminum is not ferromagnetic. Only a bonded ferritic base makes an aluminum or 300-series pot work on induction.

Clad / Disc Base Thickness
number · mm
5 mm

The difference between even heat and a scorch ring on a flat-top. Buyers on clad lines compare this number directly.

Interior Surface / Coating
enum
CeramiGuard II ceramic-reinforced nonstick

Bare metal, seasoned carbon steel, or a named nonstick system. Release life and utensil policy hang off this.

Max Oven-Safe Temperature
number · °F
450 °F

Set by the weakest component, usually the handle. Silicone-insulated handles typically cap at 450 °F; bare metal goes higher.

Compliance & identifiers

Standards, regulatory data, and the identifiers channels reject you for missing.

NSF Certification
enum
NSF/ANSI 2 certified

Commercial pots and pans fall under NSF/ANSI 2, §5.31. Carry the standard and listing, not a bare 'NSF' tag.

PFAS Status / Coating Chemistry
enum
No intentionally added PFAS

Minnesota bans intentionally added PFAS in cookware. PTFE is a PFAS. Determines whether the SKU can ship to a state at all.

Country of Origin
enum
United States

Drives duty, GSA/TAA eligibility, and 'Made in America' claims that public-sector bids score on.

The fields that aren't in the schema at all

What most commercial cookware catalogs are missing.

The table above is the schema most catalogs already have. These are the attributes that usually aren't in it — each one surfaced by a signal from the live market rather than by an audit of what's already there. This is what Anglera's Schema Foundry does on a real catalog, in this category.

Competitor signal
+ PFAS Status / Coating Chemistry

WebstaurantStore spec tables now carry a 'No PFAS Added' feature flag next to NSF Certified. Most distributor catalogs still carry only 'Non-Stick: Yes', with no polymer named anywhere on the record.

Cannot answer 'can you ship this to Minnesota?' Amara's Law bans intentionally added PFAS in cookware and PTFE is a PFAS. Ship-to-state risk lands on the distributor.

Competitor signal
+ Induction Compatible

GoFoodService's stock pot rail carries a hard Induction Yes/No facet. Many catalogs bury induction inside a free-text features blob, so it can't be filtered and the aluminum SKUs stay silent.

A buyer on an induction range orders an uncoated aluminum pot that never heats. Return, restock, freight both ways, and the rep re-quotes the clad line.

Search signal
+ Cover Fitment (fits MPN)

Covers are separate SKUs across every major line. The pot record never names its cover MPN and the cover record never lists the pots it fits; buyers searching 'lid for 68620' get zero results.

Wrong-diameter cover ships and comes back, eating a second freight leg. Cover attach rate stays low because nothing on the pot page points to one.

Supplier signal
+ Wall Thickness in mm

Gauge arrives as free text — '8 Ga.', 'Heavy Duty', 'extra thick' — with no metric equivalent. Aluminum gauge follows Brown & Sharpe, so 8-ga aluminum and 8-ga stainless are unrelated thicknesses.

No sortable heavy-duty vs standard-weight rail. Buyers can't tell two pots apart, default to the cheaper one, and warp complaints come back as returns.

Marketplace signal
+ NSF Listing Number and Standard

'NSF Certified' appears as a feature tag with no listing number and no standard named. NSF/ANSI 2 covers commercial pots and pans; NSF 390 covers retail consumer cookware. Records rarely say which.

K-12 and public-sector bids ask for proof of listing. Reps hand-pull certificates per RFQ, and unsupported claims get the line struck at bid review.

How Schema Foundry finds these

Messy in, governed out.

The same value, spelled every way foodservice equipment & supply suppliers spell it. A filter only works once they agree.

Nominal Capacity
20 Qt20qt20 quart20-QT.18.9 L20QT
20 qt

European lines send litres. 18.9 L and 20 qt are the same pot; without conversion, dedupe misses and the capacity band filter drops the SKU.

Wall Gauge / Thickness
8 Ga.8-gaugegauge 83.26mm0.128 inHeavy Duty
8 ga (3.26 mm)

Aluminum gauge is Brown & Sharpe, not the steel table. Store material plus gauge plus mm, or heavy-duty vs standard is unsortable.

Induction Compatible
Induction ReadyInduction CapableSuitable for inductionMagnetic baseAll heat sourcesY
true

'All heat sources' and 'magnetic base' both mean yes. But 'aluminum-clad bottom' alone means no — the disc has to be ferritic.

Handle Attachment
WeldedSpot WeldedRivetedRiveted-onRivetlessPermanently bonded
Welded | Riveted

'Rivetless interior' describes the cooking surface, not the attachment. Mapping it to Welded is wrong — those pans are still riveted.

What buyers ask

Every one of these should be answerable from the attributes above. If it isn't, that's a gap.

  • Will this pot actually work on my induction range, or is it just aluminum?
  • Does the 40 qt come with a lid, or do I order that separately — what's the part number?
  • What's the difference between standard weight and heavy duty in this line?
  • Is it NSF certified? My health inspector asked about the handles.
  • Can it go in the oven with that silicone handle, and up to what temperature?
  • Does the nonstick have PTFE in it? We can't ship PFAS cookware to Minnesota.
  • How wide is it across the top — will four fit on my range at once?
  • Is it dishwasher safe or hand wash only?

What channels require

The same SKU, different mandatory fields per destination.

AutoQuotes (AQ) Catalog
Manufacturer part numberBrand and product lineGTINList priceSpec sheet PDFDimensions, weight, warranty
Amazon Business
GTIN/UPCBrand and MPNCapacity and materialItem dimensionsCountry of originCA AB 1200 / Prop 65 disclosure
Distributor's own faceted site
Cookware typeCapacity bandBody materialGaugeInduction compatibleHandle attachment and cover
GS1 US / 1WorldSync GDSN
GTIN-14Brand name and GPC brickNet contentPackage hierarchyCountry of originGross weight and dimensions

Commercial Cookware data, in practice

Which NSF standard actually applies to commercial cookware?

NSF/ANSI 2, Food Equipment. Section 5.31 covers pots, pans, and utensils, and in the current revision the informative notes in that section were made normative text. NSF 390 is a different standard — it covers stovetop cookware sold into the retail consumer market — and NSF P393 covers oven bakeware. A commercial stock pot tagged 'NSF 390' is mis-tagged. Carry the standard and the listing number as separate fields from the marketing tag, because bid packages ask for the listing, not the logo.

Why can't we just store gauge as a plain number?

Because gauge is meaningless without the material. Aluminum sheet follows the Brown & Sharpe progression: 8-gauge aluminum is 0.1285 in (3.26 mm). Stainless follows the manufacturer's standard gauge, where 20-gauge is roughly 0.0375 in. Same number, four times the thickness. If your rail sorts on gauge alone, a 20-ga stainless clad pot sorts as 'thinner' than an 8-ga aluminum pot in a way that is technically true but useless to a buyer comparing across materials. Store material, gauge as sent, and a normalized mm value. Sort on the mm.

How should induction compatibility be modeled for aluminum cookware?

As a boolean that is derived, not copied. Aluminum is not ferromagnetic, so bare aluminum will not work on induction regardless of what the supplier's copy says. An aluminum or 300-series stainless pot is induction-ready only when a ferritic stainless disc or clad base is bonded to the bottom. That means Induction Compatible should be validated against Base Construction — 'aluminum-clad bottom' on its own does not qualify. Keep clad base thickness as a separate number; buyers comparing induction lines compare that directly.

What product data do the PFAS rules actually require?

SKU-level coating chemistry, not a non-stick flag. Minnesota's Amara's Law prohibited the sale of cookware with intentionally added PFAS as of January 1, 2025, and Minnesota defines cookware broadly — pots, pans, skillets, grills, baking sheets, trays, bowls, utensils. PTFE is a PFAS. Separately, California AB 1200 has required manufacturers to disclose intentionally added Candidate Chemical List chemicals in food-contact surfaces and handles on their websites since 2023, and on product labels since 2024. 'Non-Stick: Yes' answers neither. Name the coating system, its polymer class, and whether PFAS were intentionally added.

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