> When I was a kid, I remember my dad throwing out teflon pans once they'd chipped. He believed it caused cancer if the coating got into your food. AFAIU that

> When I was a kid, I remember my dad throwing out teflon pans once they'd chipped. He believed it caused cancer if the coating got into your food. AFAIU that hasn't been proven. Teflon cookware is dangerous mostly due to the precursor chemicals used when manufacturing them (so the people most affected by this are those living downstream of the chemical plants, not the end consumers), and noxious gases released if they overheat. But why risk it; there are certainly situations where teflon is indispensable, but cookware isn't one of them. > I mostly cook on iron. Well, me too. The added advantage is that an even somewhat adequately cared for cast iron frying pan will last forever, whereas these teflon things last only a few years. There's a reason why every bigger supermarket over here as a long row of teflon cookware for sale, the market for cast iron or stainless stuff must be tiny in comparison because they last forever. > I'd support a total ban, but it seems that governments are just chipping away around the edges of the problem. The EU is working on some kind of broad PFAS regulation, to get out of the vicious cycle of the industry just replacing one banned PFAS with a new PFAS compound.