Los Angeles News — One Bad Calculation Almost Destroyed This Family Business
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Los Angeles News · Consumer Report · May 2026
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One Bad Calculation Almost Destroyed This Family Business. Now They Are Selling Everything at 70% Off.

Thomas and Ryan Forge spent 20 years building America's most trusted titanium cookware brand. Then Ryan got one number badly wrong. Now the entire warehouse has to be cleared. This month.

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Thomas and Ryan Forge, founders of Forge Cookware
Thomas (left) and Ryan (right) Forge. Picture by Mark Holloway for Los Angeles News.

Thomas Forge spent his life cooking. His son Ryan studied materials engineering. For years they kept running into the same problem, and eventually flew to the other side of the world to solve it.

"Every pan I cooked on eventually let me down," Thomas said. "Coatings flaking, pans warping the first time they hit real heat. At some point you stop accepting it."

Thomas and Ryan discovering titanium cookware in Japan
Thomas and a young Ryan at a Tokyo cookware market, where they first encountered titanium pans used daily in professional Japanese kitchens. Picture by Frank Miller, circa 2004.

In Tokyo they watched professional chefs cook on pure titanium. No coating, nothing to scratch or flake, food released cleanly. They flew home with one goal: bring this to America.

Built from scratch, on the West Coast

Thomas and Ryan Forge working in their early workshop
Thomas and Ryan in their original workshop. Every pan was built and tested by hand before a single one was sold.

They started small. A workshop and two people who knew what they wanted. Word spread the way it does when something actually works. Chefs first, then home cooks who had stopped trusting the big brands.

PFAS Explainer

Why are home cooks switching away from non-stick pans?

PFAS, often called "forever chemicals," are found in most non-stick coatings. As the surface scratches with daily use, the coating degrades and ends up in your food.

Pure titanium has no coating to scratch. The material itself is the cooking surface, stable and unchanged by heat or wear.

The miscalculation that changed everything

Earlier this year Ryan projected demand for a major national launch and placed their largest inventory order ever. The numbers made sense on paper. Then their warehouse partner informed Forge the storage space was being reclaimed for a larger client. The stock had to leave within 30 days.

Forge Cookware warehouse packed with inventory
The Forge Cookware warehouse, packed with Q1 inventory that needs to be cleared within 30 days. Picture by Jane Goldman for Los Angeles News.

"I made the call. The inventory is mine to move. We are putting it in front of the people who have been waiting, at a price that reflects the situation."

Ryan Forge, Co-Founder, Forge Cookware

70% off. Once this stock is gone, the price goes back to $334.95. There is no second sale planned.

⚡ This Is the Right Moment

The pan is real. The sale is real. The window is not.

Lifetime warranty included. Ships free, fully insured. Available now at $99.95 because of a logistics situation that will not repeat itself.

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