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The breakdown products of Teflon are also toxic to the prostate, as I found out personally once by eating lots of eggs scrambled in a Teflon skillet. I avoid i
by ScottBurson 10y ago
The breakdown products of Teflon are also toxic to the prostate, as I found out personally once by eating lots of eggs scrambled in a Teflon skillet. I avoid it now.
- koenigdavidmj 10y agoHow much breakdown would really occur? If the whole point of Teflon is not to stick or react at all, I would expect that if you eat a brick of Teflon, you crap a brick of Teflon.
- nate_meurer 10y agoWould you mind saying more about what happened to you?
- ScottBurson 10y agoI don't remember exactly how long I had been using this skillet for my eggs -- a couple of months, perhaps, no more. I started having urinary difficulties, went to my doctor, and was diagnosed with Benign Prostate Hyperplasia. He didn't identify any specific cause nor prescribe any treatment, but somehow I got the idea that it might be the Teflon and stopped using it. The problem, which I had never had before, went away and has not recurred. It's possible this particular skillet had been overheated at some point, though I certainly wasn't using high heat to scramble eggs. But still, why take the chance? The ceramic non-stick surfaces you can get these days work well enough and are much safer (AFAIK, anyway).
- nate_meurer 10y agoInteresting, thanks.
- ars 10y agoSorry, but that's pretty much impossible. The breakdown products of Teflon don't show up until temperatures at which your eggs would be charcoal. Teflon will not break down until temperature above 500F 260C - and if you were cooking your eggs that hot you were doing it wrong.