gens comments on Nonstick Cookware Industry Furious at Suggestion They Should Stop Causing Cancer

[+] gens@programming.dev -10 points 2 years ago (5 children)

This article is horrible. Anyway..

Teflon has a melting point of 327°C, that can happen on a stove.

IMO It's fine, just don't burn your pan. Not sure about scratching it, but don't do that either.

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[–] authorinthedark@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 2 years ago

it seems like the primary concern of the article is the waste from producing it, not its usage

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[–] Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure you need to melt it for the PFAS to leech out. There was a study recently about smart watch bands and they found that the PFAS exposure from wearing them was way above safe limits and they weren't being heated to 327C.

Admittedly frypan coatings and watch bands are not the same materials, but still...

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

So, just don't do the two things that happen to every non-stick pan ever. Gotcha.

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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 years ago*

Yeah has no one seen the horror show that is the used pan section of a thrift store? More flaking than a millennial get-together.

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[–] snowe@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

using a pan means you have to construct that pan, in a factory that pollutes massive amount of PFAS directly into the soil and water table.

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