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Teflon for example, is pretty stable when manufactured and in-application. But the company manufacturing it, DuPont, has shown despicable disregard for environm
by retSava 7y ago
Teflon for example, is pretty stable when manufactured and in-application. But the company manufacturing it, DuPont, has shown despicable disregard for environment and people health and as such, imo, should get a healthy dose of "I ain't touching your products".
edit: one example, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-became-duponts-worst-nightmare.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-b...
- mtgx 7y agoI don't even know if most recent teflon products are supposed to be "safe" when scratched or otherwise, but I've been buying and recommending everyone to stay away from teflon products and buy only ceramic or stainless steel ones for a few years now. I've noticed there are a lot of ceramic alternatives to teflon these days compared to a few years ago and it's not much more expensive. I do believe ceramics aren't 100% safe for certain applications either, such as boiling sour stuff, or something along those lines.
- cptskippy 7y ago> Teflon for example, is pretty stable when manufactured and in-application. Chemical stability isn't necessarily a good thing. Another chemical, Perfluorooctanoic (C8), is used in the manufacture of Teflon and is extremely stable, so much so that it's found in the bloodstream of 98% of Americans. Unfortunately C8 bio-accumulates and is in fact very harmful. Also, one of the applications of Teflon is cookware and when heated Teflon undergoes thermolysis and forms toxic compounds. So stability is great until it's not. Speaking of how shitty DuPont is... 3M was DuPont's sole supplier of C8 and stopped manufacturing it amid rising concerns from the EPA, so DuPont started manufacturing it on their own.