We use Teflon-coated cookingwear even though we know it's poison.
Yes, yes, I know, technically it's not a problem if you don't scratch or over-heat it. But in my experience, 99% of non-stick pans get scratched and over-heated.
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You say this like we don't still have kitchenware with lead (or other nasties like cadmium) in them, often for purely aesthetic reasons. Most of these are discontinued products still in circulation, but some are still being produced (in theory they're "safe for use" because the heavy metals are sealed behind something nontoxic, but scratches and chips may expose them).
AESTHETIC reasons?? girl lead poisoning isn't worth a pretty pot.
Everyone makes fun of California's prop 65 warnings, but this is exactly the situation they exist for: knowing which colorful plate sets to avoid at Crate & Barrel.
Except the law was really poorly worded with no downside for false reporting. As a result literally everything has the label on it, up to and including a generic message at the front doors of the store telling you that going in the building will cause cancer and reproductive harm.
But it doesn't work when every manufacturer puts those stickers on literally everything just in case.
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Also, a lot of nonstick pan coatings are incredibly shortlived and end up in your food if you continue to use a scrarched pan.
I will never use Teflon again. Even using it correctly will kill a bird in the same room. Canary in a coal mine. I won't touch the stuff. Stainless steel or cast iron.
Just a FYI, teflon products produced after the removal of PFOAs in 2013 are safe to use.
EDIT: Perhaps PTFE is also bad
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I bought a nonstick wok and my friends kept using steel wool and chipping it and I kept freaking out on them about it. I'm like STOP IT, I'd rather it be dirty than this!
They used to make fun of me freaking out about it.
I feel a bit vindicated with my freak outs now.
My family (parents etc) have mostly learned their lesson now after all the news coverage, but before that I used to resort to hiding my good non sticks whenever they were staying over. If my parents complained about the shitty old pans that were available, then I pulled out my very sticky nonstick ceramic pan that they had roughed up despite my protests. I'm never throwing that shitty ceramic pan away, it's way too effective as a rhetorical ploy now.
Friends I still mostly don't trust since I don't know their kitchen habits well enough, but they're less likely to try to help with cooking anyhow, only with dish washing and there it's easy to hide the wrong sponges.
If your chipped nonstick is teflon, then it's garbage now imo. I would never cook in it again, too risky imo.
And I now realize that I've become paranoid in my own kitchen.
You should have thrown it away after the first chip. Anyone reading this, THROW AWAY your chipped Teflon!! Replace with cast iron
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We also put lead in gasoline knowing damn well it would come out the tail pipes and people on the streets would have to breathe it. Several decades of leaded gasoline passed until someone developed an alternative to fix engine knocks. If that had never been invented we would still be pumping lead into our streets today as a "cost of life" or more realistically, a cost of doing business.
Cars still offgas other heavy metals (arsenic, cadmium, chromium, nickel), and rhe wear from their tires also distributes heavy metals. Tractors do the same in our fields and have for decades. It's not good. Instead of developing drones for the military, we should develop them for our food supply first.
The industrial revolution and it's consequences
Piston aircraft still use it. Which makes it doubly annoying when some tit in a cesna decides to circle around town at 1000'.
Not just making a noise, also cropdusting with TEL.
Luckily that is beginning to change. But it is crazy that it has taken so long to do.
There seems to be two octane ratings that now have an unleaded replacement. (I don't know how many there actually are in use.)
Well you know. One is WAY worse. Like we still have not found that much proof of plastic being very bad
There aren't any islands of lead in the ocean, and lead items aren't single-use. Yes yes, both are bad, but one is obviously worse.
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What the fuck are you on, it's already done untold damage to our ecosystems
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Someone correct me if I'm remembering this incorrectly but I do remember seeing a article explaining how we have discovered that plastic has been making men infertile due to the male body collecting micro plastics in the balls to the point that if not stopped in time the plastic will start killing sperms and making the man sterile Edit I think I found the video that informed me https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IoH41Qzv__0 Upon searching I've found a lot of the sources claiming that there is a correlation between plastic count and sperm count seems to be coming from India which is odd but yet again if you want to study people surrounded by garbage India is the place to get a large sample size but I've also found some sources saying that plastic is more specifically affecting hormone production https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LXq1Sm95GlQ&pp=ygUYcGxhc3RpY3Mgc3RlcmlsaXppbmcgbWVu
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People downvoting this comment are just mad that you're right.
Me using my scratched teflon pans.
😏 be like me and use a cast iron skillet that weighs a ton, never is slick like you see on the internet, and is a removed (really Lemmy? Auto censor?? FFS) to clean
In all seriousness, I just made scrambled eggs on the ol' beast and they turned out decent. Far from non stick but it's non cancer at least.
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Evidently your current instance censors that last word too.
(really Lemmy? Auto censor?? FFS)
That's your instance, ml is a turd like that.
I have no clue how Lemmy works. I made an account and just assumed that was that.
I believe the ML there stands for Marxist Leninist (one of the flavors of communism)
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Lemmy.ml censors a number of common curses and is run by Uyghur genocide deniers.
Well that's unfortunate. What are more ideal instances of Lemmy? Thanks for the explanation, by the way.
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That's every "non-stick" pan after 1-2 months of daily use.
All non-stick, "scratch resistant" pans are a marketing gimmick designed to have the average consumer-moron buy 30 pans in their lifetime, than simply learn how to season pans properly and hand 2 or 3 Iron/steel pans down their family lineage for generations, across hundreds of years.
I don't even know what my pans are.
pfas!
Ceramic ones are a bit better but for the most part this is correct. There really isn't a clear reason not to cook with steel or iron, they tend to be the best options for 99.9% of applications. Only thing that I can think of is cooking eggs at a lower temp, but iron does that fine if the seasoning is really good.
My scanpan has been in use for at least 6 years unscratched