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Teflon pans being dangerous is a safe bet. Teflon is famously inert and sticks to nothing... so how did they stick it to the pan? The chemicals they use for t
by lupusreal 3y ago
Teflon pans being dangerous is a safe bet. Teflon is famously inert and sticks to nothing... so how did they stick it to the pan? The chemicals they use for that must be very reactive and it's a good bet to assume anything like that is toxic.
- dappermanneke 3y agooh boy
- lm28469 3y agoEven if they were perfectly safe it's a terrible product. They're the closest you can get to disposable pans, at best you'll get 5-10 years out of them, then you have to throw the whole thing away because the top 0.01mm is damaged
- jansan 3y agoThat did not convince me.
- cma 3y agoThey do use a chemical primer for making Teflon stick, but also surface roughening, like how inert glass glaze sticks to pottery. Though glass and pottery are both ceramics so I believe there is a chemical/material bond as well that doesn't take a primer. But you also have things like porcelain sink that is ceramic on metal, and even porcelain metal cookware that are too and would defy your statement of inert on metal == bad automatically. Some metals have a self oxidized coating that is inert and stuck on, for example titanium cookware used in hiking.
- lupusreal 3y agoI've seen scraped up Teflon pans that seemed to have some sort of crap between the coating and the metal; I don't think it's just a mechanical bond. Anyway, with how gentle you need to treat those pans I don't think they're worth it, even if safe. Stainless or cast iron aren't hard to clean and are essentially idiot proof, so that's what I like to use.
- cma 3y agoThey do use a chemical primer.
- acuozzo 3y agoGlass is famously inert and sticks to nothing, so how does enameling work?
- lupusreal 3y agoPeople eat off of enameled glass? Enamel chips and wears off and are often made with toxic metals. I don't know how it sticks in the first place, but it doesn't follow that if enamels are safe teflon must be as well.