Natural Bakeware

I admit I can’t cook. While I have a green thumb for gardening, it is
definitely a black thumb when it comes to cooking, particularly baking.
I am blessed in having a husband who cooks like an angel who has taught
our kids to cook. Our daughter bakes to relax. When Jessi has a week of
exams, she brings muffins and cookies and cakes to each test (a habit
much encouraged by her classmates, you can be sure).
However, I have a strange fascination for
Nordicware.

“Nordic Ware is a family-owned, American manufacturer of kitchenware products
founded in 1946. … Nordic Ware is best known for its Bundt® Pan. Today,
there are nearly 60 million Bundt® pans in kitchens across America.”

I have proven myself unable even to cook a bundt cake (famously the easiest
cake to make) but I have developed a collection of the fancy cake pans for
use by my family. I was originally seduced by the Cathedral pan (modeled
after Notre Dame Cathedral, my favorite), and went on to buy the heart, rose,
sand castle, and bouquet muffin pan. I find it amusing to arrive at a
meeting or pot luck party with a cathedral shaped cake as my contribution.

The Nordicware Christmas catalogue just arrived. They are now offering
a stadium-shaped cake pan but the carousel pan looks more fun. What confuses
me is the catalogue section on “Natural Commercial Bakeware”. What is
natural about bakeware? Wikipedia lists many meanings of “natural”, but
bakeware?