Nonstick Cookware Industry Furious at Suggestion They Should Stop Causing Cancer

Carbon steel or cast iron all the way.

GenX was basically told that "Teflon is inert, it can't hurt you."

Well fuck me.

Keep in mind that nonstick cookware is still very safe when handled correctly. The problem lies in the manufacturing of these needed chemicals. When these chemicals get into the environment, because of improper safety management, it will stay there for hundreds of years, taking it's toll on flora and fauna.

Capitalists furious at suggestion they value human life over money

ftfy

What a ridiculous world we live in. The board members should be facing prison sentences, the company's liquidated and the money back to the people.

I hate how we allowed these ghouls to make the word "nonstick" synonymous with teflon/PFAS. It makes it sound like if you use a regular pan, you constantly have to scrape off burnt food or something. That's just not true, a well-seasoned regular pan can be just as "nonstick" as one with a PFAS coating. It's a fake non-problem that was invented to sell this garbage that poisons us and the environment. If it was up to me, the executives at dupont and anyone else responsible for this psyop would be sent off to labor camps (with humane working conditions of course)

Is it really that bad? Sure it might be linked to cancer but so are lots of other things.

I personally just use normal cookware plus some vision stuff. All you need to do is salute some onions ahead of adding other things. The juice from the onions acts as a natural non stick.

Cast iron ftw!

My mom has like "chemophobia" is is constantly afraid medications or "GMO". Well looks like she got this part right tho, she was always afraid of a non stick stuff chipping off and hate any "non stick" cookware. Broken clock, twice a day, ya know.

Never really had any issue with Teflon (and Teflon substitute) pans, but I've been impressed with the non-stickiness of my dirt cheap "ceramic" wok.

All real nonstick cookware is Teflon or chemically related to it. I almost always use cast iron or carbon steel but they are not nonstick, you have to control heat and acidity for them to release well. You can even see in nonstick pans that liquids will tend to bead up and not spread out because of the surface, versus in any other pan you'll only see water bead up when you hit certain temps. I can only achieve something like a French omelette in a nonstick pan, carbon steel has always been a disaster, because of that me and a lot of other people keep a nonstick around just for certain egg and crepe recipes.

Wikipedia makes it sound like not all Teflon pans require PFOA, which is the actual problem here (not that the article describes it clearly).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-stick_surface

PFOA/PFOS is in lots of other household shit though, like raincoats

Those who cannot cook use not stick.

I use Greenpan, a ceramic nonstick pan

Just clean your cookware people

These non-stick pans are usually cheaper then stainless steel and cast iron, so people with lower income are more prone to buy it. Consequently, considering that low education is associated with poverty, poor people are buying more of this type of pans and not using it "properly" so getting exposed to possibly more harm and not knowing about it.

Also, " just discard the pan if flocking occurs", is everything that this industry wants: you'll continue in an indefinitely loop of trowing away pans and buying new ones for the maximization of their profits. Thus is expected that flocking will occur more soon than ever.