[VERGE] Frying pan company sued for claiming temperatures that rival the Sun

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• grooving@lemmy.studio ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ali express sellers are like… We’ll go to 40,000F

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• fluke@snake.substantialplumbing.repair ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Metal vapor deposition experts deposed in this trial

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• CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lmao

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  That’s the burning question at the center of this proposed class action lawsuit, which claims the advertising for SharkNinja’s nonstick cookware violates the laws of physics and thermodynamics.

  Instead of making its pans at a measly 900-degree temperature that other brands use, SharkNinja says it heats up the cookware to a maximum of 30,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

  As cited in Brown’s lawsuit, NASA recently said the “surface of the Sun is a blisteringly hot 10,340 degrees Fahrenheit,” meaning SharkNinja’s manufacturing process reaches about three times that temperature.

  Not only that, but Brown argues that heating up SharkNinja’s pans to this temperature is a “physical impossibility,” given that aluminum vaporizes into gas at 4,478 degrees Fahrenheit.

  Now, I’m not sure if that’s the exact technique that SharkNinja is using here or how much things in the nonstick world have changed since 2002, but it certainly indicates that temperatures can reach 30,000 degrees during the coating process.

  Still, Brown asserts that SharkNinja’s claims “are little more than a glitzy, deceptive marketing technique” that convinces customers to purchase its NeverStick products, which are more expensive than the nonstick pans from competitors like Farberware.

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