American kitchen and cookware manufacturers
Every line in the table below is a quote from the manufacturer. Beside it sits the page it came from and the date it was read. None of it is this site's own judgement about where anything is made.
| Manufacturer | Origin | The maker’s own words |
|---|---|---|
| 360 CookwareRecorded product by product | Made in USA, with a qualifier | Handcrafted in the U.S.A |
| All-CladRecorded product by product | Varies by product | 3 products recorded: 1 made in the USA with a qualifier, 2 made outside the USA. |
| Fiesta Tableware CompanyRecorded product by product | Made in USA, as claimed | Made in the USA. |
| Heritage SteelRecorded product by product | Made in USA, with a qualifier | Made in Clarksville, Tennessee |
| Holland Bowl MillRecorded product by product | Made in USA, as claimed | Built in Holland, Michigan |
| Klean KanteenCompany-level claim | Made outside the USA | Klean Kanteen products are designed in Chico, California and responsibly made in China. Currently, there aren't qualified stainless steel water bottle manufacturers in the US – most brands are made in either China or India. We are proud to have a long relationship with these facilities and their staff and consider them part of our Klean Kanteen family. |
| Liberty TabletopRecorded product by product | Made in USA, as claimed | 100% Made in USA |
| Lodge Cast IronRecorded product by product | Varies by product | 6 products recorded: 3 made in the USA as claimed, 1 made in the USA with a qualifier, 2 made outside the USA.See them product by product |
| NalgeneCompany-level claim | Made in USA, as claimed | If you follow along with one of our made-in-the-USA Nalgene bottles, you’d experience a much shorter trip. Here’s how it goes: our BPA-free plastics are shipped from Tennessee to our Rochester, New York facility where our bottles are manufactured. After the bottles are made in New York, they’re then sent out to your store shelves. |
| Rada CutleryRecorded product by product | Made in USA, as claimed | 100% made in the USA |
| Smithey IronwareRecorded product by product | Made in USA, as claimed | Hand-Forged in the USA |
| SnapwareRecorded product by product | Made in USA, as claimed | Made in USA |
| Steelmade USARecorded product by product | Made in USA, as claimed | Hand-fabricated in Kansas just for you |
| TervisRecorded product by product | Varies by product | 2 products recorded: 1 made in the USA as claimed, 1 made outside the USA.See them product by product |
| USA PanRecorded product by product | Made in USA, with a qualifier | Made in the USA from globally sourced materials |
| VitamixCompany-level claim | Assembled in USA, as claimed | Vitamix products are engineered and assembled in the USA. From laser-cut stainless steel blades to cool-running motors, we carefully select the highest quality components, so you can be confident knowing Vitamix will be there for years to come. |
Where the company page and the product page disagree
Each of these quotes was taken off a page describing the product, not off an about page. That matters, because for two of the ten the two pages do not say the same thing.
USA Pan's story page says "Proudly made in the USA", with nothing attached. The page for its 9 inch pie pan says "Made in the USA from globally sourced materials". Both are the company's own words. Only one of them mentions where the steel comes from.
360 Cookware carries the qualifier in a banner on the product page itself: "MADE IN THE USA WITH GLOBAL MATERIALS | WEST BEND WISCONSIN". The manufacturing claim and the materials claim are separate, and the company keeps them separate.
Tervis is the sharpest case, because the two products look alike. It sells an American flag tumbler made in America and an American flag tumbler made in China, and takes them one at a time on its own page here.
Lodge is the larger version of the same thing. Its catalogue holds four different answers across six products, which is why its row gives a count instead of a quote and links to a page that takes them one at a time.
Reading the labels
"Made in USA, as claimed" means the maker stated it plainly on the product page, with nothing attached.
"Made in USA, with a qualifier" means the maker stated it and limited it in the same breath. Heritage Steel is the clearest case. Its page says the cookware is made in Clarksville, Tennessee, and on the same page says the cladded steel is bought from a mill in South Korea, because American suppliers stopped making it. Both halves are the company's own words, and it volunteered the second one.
"Varies by product" means the catalogue holds more than one answer.
What a row does not tell you
A quote is a record of what a company published, on a page, on a date. It is not an inspection of a factory, and nothing here is checked against a company's actual supply chain.
A product page can also change after it was read. Every row carries the date it was read for that reason, and the stored copy of each page is kept so a later reader can see exactly what it said.
What could not be checked
YETI is not in the table. Its cooler pages refused four different automated requests, and when the page was opened in an ordinary browser instead, it showed no origin statement at all. Whatever YETI publishes about where a given cooler is made, it is not on the product page where a shopper would look for it.
That is a finding about the reading, not about YETI's coolers. The company may well make some of them in the United States. This site records what a maker publishes and where, and in this case the answer is that nothing was published in a place that could be read.
KitchenAid is absent for a different reason. Its parent company publishes that "approximately 80% of the major appliances we sell in the U.S. come from our American factories" across six brands at once. That is a corporate average, carrying an asterisk, covering major appliances. A stand mixer is a small appliance, and an average across six brands says nothing about any one model. It reads like an origin claim and it is not one, so no KitchenAid product is listed here.
CorningWare and Chicago Cutlery are absent for a third reason. The only origin statements found on their pages came from customer reviews. A buyer's comment is not the manufacturer speaking, and this site records what the maker published.
What is missing here
This list is short because every entry has to be read off the manufacturer's own site first. Companies get added as their pages are read, not as their names are collected.
Some makers publish an origin claim about the company and say nothing on the product pages themselves. Where that happens the row will say so, rather than letting the company claim stand in for a product claim.