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It’s nasty stuff sure, but you’re not consuming PFAS every time you cook with Teflon pans. Your pans are fine. In fact, it is actually very difficult to consume
by xwdv 4y ago
It’s nasty stuff sure, but you’re not consuming PFAS every time you cook with Teflon pans. Your pans are fine. In fact, it is actually very difficult to consume PFAS consistently in a way that will actually do long term harm. In the end you’re more likely to die of cardiac arrest from the fatty foods you cook than from PFAS cancer. Saturated fats used for non-stick cooking will clog your arteries with plaque and kill you off eventually, guaranteed.
My advice, don’t worry about it and live your life.
- mschuster91 4y ago> It’s nasty stuff sure, but you’re not consuming PFAS every time you cook with Teflon pans. Your pans are fine. If you're not damaging them by using metal tools, which many people do.
- hgomersall 4y agoOr overheating the pan, which is basically unavoidable.
- xwdv 4y agoNo you would have to overheat it deliberately for a long period of time.
- hgomersall 4y agoPTFE breaks down above 250 centigrade. That's pretty normal for frying pans.
- xwdv 4y agoLet me put it this way, you can break flakes off of PTFE pans and swallow them and nothing will happen to you. They will just pass through your digestive system. You will not get some kind of cancer just from this alone. Don’t listen to the lobbyists.
- hgomersall 4y agoThat's not what "breaks down" means.