Absolutely, don't trust it. The fact of Teflon's extreme toxicity at temperatures commonly encountered in cooking is undisputed. Quoting from http://www.ewg.o

Absolutely, don't trust it. The fact of Teflon's extreme toxicity at temperatures commonly encountered in cooking is undisputed. Quoting from http://www.ewg.org/research/canaries-kitchen/teflon-offgas-studies http://www.ewg.org/research/canaries-kitchen/teflon-offgas-s...: > The lowest temperature at which nonstick coatings have been reported to kill birds in a peer-reviewed study is 396°F (202°C) That website offers a lot of evidence regarding Teflon's toxicity in other animals as well, but birds seem by far the most sensitive. Granted now, birds ain't humans. In particular, our unusually massive and efficient livers protect us from a lot of things that readily kill other animals (e.g., aflatoxin, which we withstand in much higher doses than most other creatures). But this just tells us that our bodies are somehow coping with the poison enough to allow our survival. It doesn't tell us the poison is harmless to us, and IMO fluorocarbon toxicity in humans has been woefully understudied.