Not like it’s good to eat it or anything, but just to help with the worries, teflon is absolutely safe to ingest, it’s a very stable molecule that don’t interact with absolutely anything, it goes in and out basically intact. Of course it doesn’t mean you can EAT it, but ocasional accidental ingestion due “scraping the bottom” are pretty safe.
When people say it’s Toxic, they knowing or unknowingly are talking about the chemicals used to make it, mostly PFOA — perfluorooctanoic acid. These are nasty, and are present GLOBALLY, like everywhere, from the sea to the middle of deserts and even on the poles, that also includes our blood.
Natanael@infosec.pub 4 months ago
Newer versions of that pan use ceramics, not Teflon
It seems to be slightly less non stick, and more sensitive to quick temperature changes, but otherwise it’s pretty solid and very safe
altphoto@lemmy.today 4 months ago
I thought there was a class action lawsuit against the company for faking “ceramic” coating while still using PTFE.
Natanael@infosec.pub 4 months ago
No, they called it a non-stick non-toxic coating, they didn’t originally claim ceramic.
They claim the new surface is ceramic (and it looks plausible from seeing how damaged pans look in photos)
altphoto@lemmy.today 4 months ago
This is what im vaguely aware of: There have been several lawsuits against ceramic non-stick pan brands, most notably a recent $2.5 million class action settlement with HexClad, which faced claims of false advertising about the presence of toxic chemicals like PFAS and PFOA. Additionally, a class action lawsuit against Blue Diamond, filed in 2020, alleged the pans were not as non-stick as advertised. A similar suit against GreenPan was filed in 2019 but was ultimately dismissed.
Rooster326@programming.dev 4 months ago
Oh nice!
Micro-Class-Action-Lawsuit payout for all of the micro-plastics in my body.
As if the payouts aren’t already a joke.