Dan spent most of his career in professional kitchens. His brother Eric spent his mainly in materials engineering. For decades, they worked separately, but kept running into the same problem.
"Every pan I used in the kitchen eventually let me down." Dan said. "Coatings flaking, handles loosening and pans that warped the first time they hit real heat. At some point you stop accepting it."
Eric had seen the same issue from a different angle.
"I was working with titanium in industrial applications and kept thinking: why isn't anyone using this in cookware? It doesn't warp, it doesn't need coatings and it's one of the most stable materials we have."
The answer, they both knew, was margins. Titanium is harder to work with. It takes longer and costs more to do right. For most brands, that math just didn't work.
For Dan and Eric, it was the only math that mattered.
