Quite good, if you avoid the fact it’s literally everywhere including the atmosphere, doesn’t break down, and causes cancer. But who cares about such little things like cancer causing rain…
Teflon itself is inert, but it’s also not needed to avoid that food sticks in a pan. In a good prepared Steel pan food sticks less than in a Teflon pan and is way more resistant to damages. The food sticks in the pan, if you don’t wait to add the food until it’s heated enough, not for other reasons, mistake often don by normal users. Professional cooks never use Teflon pans.
Preparing a Steel pan non-stick
Clean the pan after buy it
Heat the pan on the kitchen until it change the color
Add some oil and heat somewhat more
After this, wait until i’s cold enough and distribute and eliminate the oil film over the whole surface with an kitchen paper.
Done
After this, to fry something, add a little oil and wait until the oil has enough heat (test with the handle of a wood spoon, if it forms little bubbles on it in the oil, the temperature is OK), to add the food. It will never stick this way.
In Denmark there was until very recently a factory doing something with teflon. That shit got launched out the chimney and just rained down everywhere.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 7 months ago
Teflon freon(CFC)…
SW42@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Teflon is just the brand name. I believe it’s called Polytetrafluorethylene, thus ending in ne :)
craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Thank dog, we’re saved
lemmyknow@lemmy.today 7 months ago
SW42 shall forever be remembered a hero, who saved the world from a dark path
olafurp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Known also as PFAS or forever chemicals
Tja@programming.dev 7 months ago
Teflon itself is quite good, getting it to stick to places is the problem.
Shareni@programming.dev 7 months ago
Quite good, if you avoid the fact it’s literally everywhere including the atmosphere, doesn’t break down, and causes cancer. But who cares about such little things like cancer causing rain…
Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Again, that’s from getting it to stick to things. The smaller PTFE chemicals that make it possible to suspend Teflon in water are the problem.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Teflon itself is inert, but it’s also not needed to avoid that food sticks in a pan. In a good prepared Steel pan food sticks less than in a Teflon pan and is way more resistant to damages. The food sticks in the pan, if you don’t wait to add the food until it’s heated enough, not for other reasons, mistake often don by normal users. Professional cooks never use Teflon pans.
Preparing a Steel pan non-stick
Clean the pan after buy it Heat the pan on the kitchen until it change the color Add some oil and heat somewhat more After this, wait until i’s cold enough and distribute and eliminate the oil film over the whole surface with an kitchen paper. Done
After this, to fry something, add a little oil and wait until the oil has enough heat (test with the handle of a wood spoon, if it forms little bubbles on it in the oil, the temperature is OK), to add the food. It will never stick this way.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 7 months ago
Teflon, on it’s own is safe, the problem are the chemicals used to produce it.
Tja@programming.dev 7 months ago
Teflon doesn’t cause cancer.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 7 months ago
In the same way Asbestos is a great material, just one small problem
Tja@programming.dev 7 months ago
Asbestos itself is toxic. Teflon is inert.
fckreddit@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Asbestos makes for a great cigarette filter material, though.
Mambert@beehaw.org 7 months ago
We are too weak for the miracle of asbestos.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
In Denmark there was until very recently a factory doing something with teflon. That shit got launched out the chimney and just rained down everywhere.
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
free of charge?
Tja@programming.dev 7 months ago
Yeah, every factory that does “something” with Teflon probably wants to stick it to things, which are the problematic chemicals, not Teflon itself.