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12 Comments to “Oh Teflon, My Teflon”

1. TheMatt
   Comment @ 01/26/06 at 11:10 am

   Well, I guess you could always switch to Sitram’s Cybernox cookware. It’s not non-stick like Teflon, but it’s the next best thing. Plus, you can use metal utensils all you want on it…go quasi-crystals!

2. Emma M
   Comment @ 01/26/06 at 11:44 am

   Bird owners have been railing against the evil of teflon for years. I’ve never actually experienced it, (being a rather paranoid bird owner), but apparently if you overheat the teflon, it lets off fumes that are deadly to birds.

   I mean, lots of fumes are deadly to birds, but teflon’s notorious. Lots of bird owners refuse to use it at all.

3. Dragonbane
   Comment @ 01/26/06 at 12:16 pm

   Isn’t that what Erin Brockovich was about?

4. fluffy
   Comment @ 01/26/06 at 1:47 pm

   Woo! It pains me to see how many people keep on buying and re-buying crappy Teflon-ware when they’d be much better served by a nice set of stainless steel and non-fat cooking spray, or seasoned cast-iron (though I prefer stainless for most things except high-heat cooking). Especially since all the Teflon users I know end up just using a bunch of oil *anyway*.

   Also, olive oil adds a nice dimension of flavor to most foods. People should use olive oil more. (For things which don’t already have enough oil inside, of course. You don’t need oil to make chupaquesos for example.)

5. Howard Tayler
   Comment @ 01/26/06 at 2:31 pm

   I need to try cast iron for my breakfast skillet at some point. I’ve had four nice teflon skillets over the last 15 years — the perfect size is 9 inches — and I still have two of them. They are PERFECT for the “basted egg” (which I now need to blog about, I guess).

   [EDIT: It’s been blogged]

6. Kyle Wheeler
   Comment @ 02/02/06 at 12:38 pm

   Here’s another article, arguing instead that Teflon is not evil: http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=101205C It mostly talks about PFOA and how the evidence that it’s toxic is extremely shaking, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

7. zippthorne
   Comment @ 02/02/06 at 7:00 pm

   Ahh teflon. I love teflon. Teflon coated wires won’t melt, even when you rest the soldering iron on the spool of soon-to-be-used wire, makes cleaning the skillet a snap, and will allow giant interferometric optical telescope constellations to fly and IMAGE extrasolar planets. http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/P/pulsedplasmathruster.html
   oh man PPTs are so SIMPLE.

   But, if you’re going to be anal about your pots and pans releasing volatiles or possibly reacting with your food then even an iron skillet is simply not inert enough. What you need is GLASS cookware. Nothing sticks to glass because nothing reacts with it. And let me say that i have in fact used a glass skillet and it was heaven. even heating, easy cleanup, and of course, the cool factor of cooking with freakin’ glass.

8. ivar van rijn
   Comment @ 02/03/06 at 2:24 am

   uhm..im from holland, but is teflon the black stuff which is on all my cookware?

9. zippthorne
   Comment @ 02/03/06 at 12:42 pm

   No. Teflon is white. On cookware however it’s usually thin enough to be clear. Now the real question is this: Teflon sticks to teflon really well, but other things, not so well, which is why it has such a low coefficient of friction. Ok, so how do they get it to stick to the pan?

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