Comment on sushi delivery
Cabbage_Pout61@lemmy.world 17 hours agoNot 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.
Totally, it’s safe if you take care of the pan; however, if you ever get it above a certain temperature the coating will break down and that’s when there’s risk. Also as you said, how much forever chemicals are released into the environment during it’s production, and might I also add that those bits that go in and out are also in the environment forever.
I suspect no one wants to hear about cast iron pans anymore lol.
what do you mean by that last point?
He probably likes cast iron pans
Yes, I saw him at the iron castration anonymous meeting! He liked it!
PTFE is considered a PFOAs molecule by ROHS3 and you can’t use it in new design. I know this because I design stuff that occasionally may need high temperature plastics or other solids. The stuff is inert but its not good for you as the other commenter mentioned. Once heated to 500F or 260C, it may release toxic fumes that can cause flu-like symptoms, liver damage, cancer and disruption in development of kids.
It’s a good thing I’m poor. My oven doesn’t go above 450F.
Yeah I forgot to mention the heating bit, don’t let it get too hot folks!
Coming with Teflon pans has loads of evidence of killing pet birds nearby though so I’m not too sure it’s as 100% safe as you say it is.
Birds are not real. The internet is never wrong.
Have there been any independent long term studies done on Teflon inside human bodies?
Dasus@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Every time someone’s foaming at the mouth at how safe it is to eat Teflon, I can’t help but to be reminder of the confidence of 1950’s ad executives:
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Cabbage_Pout61@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
There’s a nice video about it from Veritasium.
Strictly speaking of the chemical side of things, teflon at it’s normal temperature, is very inert and won’t interact with anything inside your body, that’s doesn’t mean you can eat 1 kilogram of it and be fine.
The point was, if you accidentally scrap the bottom of a pan and ingest a tiny bit of the coating with the food, that won’t make any big harm as most alarmists suggest.
Dasus@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I’ve heard the argument several times, yeah.
I still wouldn’t eat teflon and have slowly changed to mostly stainless steel, which is superior in cooking if you know how to use it. Gonna get myself some cast iron as well but I’d like a larger kitchen to properly start kitting out. What I want in the end is silver cookware.
The point is, your “facts” are probably more correct than science in the 50’s, but the fact is those “facts” are still essentially company propaganda to make people not panic over having eaten off of neurotoxins for 50 years.
Or like, are you so naive you don’t understand companies like DuPont lying through their teeth?
pure.eur.nl/…/historical-pfas-pollution-as-a-stat…