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I mostly use wooden cookware, and I throw that and non-stick pans in the dishwasher, teflon is so chemically stable that it shouldn't matter. But yes, I just bu
by cenamus 2y ago
I mostly use wooden cookware, and I throw that and non-stick pans in the dishwasher, teflon is so chemically stable that it shouldn't matter. But yes, I just buy a new pan every ~2 years, sometimes 3.
- aphantastic 2y agoWhy do you feel a need to buy a new pan? If something about the coating has degraded, where do you think the offed material has ended up?
- cenamus 2y agoYeah it's degrading. Half in the food, half down the sink I'd say? But what is it gonna do? The teflon isn't gonna do anything, maybe the binders/glue, but aslong as there's no new discoveries...
- aphantastic 2y agoTeflon is known to not interact when it is in its stable long polymer state. But if we accept that it is breaking away from that state, we know it is not stable, and is potentially reactive. Personally, a touch of avocado oil in a coast iron is much (much) lower risk (and price) than taking bets on whether this particular PFAS matrix will see the same fate as all the prior (now banned) ones or if we have somehow finally solved PFAS once and for all. Not to mention all the known-bad environmental PFAS’s the manufacture and disposal of these 2 year pans creates.