[blam]

I always wondered about this.

[Robert A Cook PE]

So we shouldn't cook food (or use easily-cleanable pots!) because we MIGHT release A LITTLE BIT of (maybe NOT EVEN TOXIC) chemicals into the food?

We're all gonna die!

[cripplecreek]

My great grandmother refused to cook in aluminium. She would use it for food storage but refused to cook in it.

[Retired Chemist]

250°C hot plate

That's a lot hotter than they are normally used.

[Sun]

Wonder if the food industry's lobbyist will try to keep this as quiet as possible?

[Bahbah]

If this were actually dangerous, blam, I would be dead.

[mtbopfuyn]

Use iron cookware and you won't need Geritol!

[Doomonyou]

When the researchers popped corn in the microwave bags, gaseous emissions contained low amounts of PFOA and high amounts of fluorotelomer alcohols. The oily coatings left inside the bags contained the chemicals as well, the team reports.

And if you eat 25 bags a day for 47 years you will have a .02% of developing colon cancer.

[lowbridge]

Your frying pan can kill you. But only if your wife finds you guilty.

[toldyou]

"Available to subscribers at http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20031011/note17.asp)"

Is this saying that for us to find out which ones are dangerous to our health, we have to subscribe to this publication?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

So what prompted these non-stick pans to come into existence? The banishment of LARD AND COOKING OILS!

[Robert A Cook PE]

My letter to the editor:

So we shouldn't cook food (or use easily-cleanable pots!) because we MIGHT release A LITTLE BIT of (maybe NOT EVEN TOXIC) chemicals into the food?

SO we should vent (expensive already heated or air conditioned and humidified indoors air) from the kitchen (wasting BILLIONS in heating oil, gas, and electrically generated BTU's ...

All because a COMMON chemical found worldwide is merely SUSPECTED of being linked to worldwide rates of exposure.

A practical question from this engineer:

If the chemical is found in trace amounts in humans worldwide,
and US-built coated pots ARE NOT capable of contaminating
(1) people worldwide who don't use coated American pots, and
(2) people worldwide who can't afford US pots (the vast majority)
(3) people worldwide and in the US clean their pots BETTER (yielding less food poisoning from cleaner pots that are less scarred by scraping and dirt!)

... then WHY are our US companies being forced to abandon a proven helpful chemical?

The results of this ruling are dirtier pots and MORE deaths from food poisoning, millions in development and research wasted, more millions is changing chemicals that produce a worse job of protecting the pots from scarring, billions more wasted as consumer replace torn up pots not well protected by the new chemicals. And NO GOOD.

[DigitalVideoDude]

Yeah, but it's ~my~ cookware.

[Clara Lou]

I only use mine at temperatures high enough to scramble an egg. I have my trusty cast iron skillets for the hot stuff.

[Kevmo]

Bump for later reading

[gcruse]

Flushing the toilet with the lid up doesn't do wonders for the surrounding area, either.

[leda]

non-stick pans are about the most useless things.
i only use my ancient cast iron pans or stainless
steel revere ware. even my cookie sheets are
those huge restaurant sized stainless steel pans.

[Texas_shutterbug]

Well, those nonstick pots release something since it can kill small domestic birds like parakeets...or so bird owners are warned, anyway.

[Myrddin]

The first attempts at making non-stick Teflon pans had some deadly consequences. The tetrafluoroethylene could depolymerize at high temperatures. In gaseous form it is a potent neurotoxin. The phenomenon was discovered the hard way when all the employees of a bakery using the early teflon pans died when they became overheated. Later improvement in the "end groups" reduced the probability of the depolymerizing.

[WV Mountain Mama]

They can have my nonstick frying pan...

[nascarnation]

In the 1950s I played with mercury as a kid, in a home filled with leaded paint and asbestos tile, ate lots of fish from Lake Erie (fed by the infamous Cuyahoga River)
and breathed air from the steel mills of the "flats" of Cleveland and the carbonaceous diesel exhaust of city buses. As a teenager I pumped thousands of gallons of leaded gasoline working at a service station.

I'm not sweatin' a little teflon in my omelet, LOL