Should I stop cooking with Teflon?
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It depends, is Teflon a nice guy?\n\nSeriously if you  should happen to see that the Teflon is starting to wear, get rid of the pan and buy a new one.  The real dander with all the hype is when the particles come loose and go into the food.\n\nA pan in good condition is of little to no concern.\n\nRemember almost 300,000 people died from car accidents last year, but we still get in our cars.\n \nI don't know of anyone who has died from Teflon frying pans.
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Non Stick - but in PR or marketing terms it is used to describe someone hwho can survive heavy criticism.  In other words, when the crap is slung around - it doesn't stick to the  person with the Teflon Factor.
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the surface of the frying pan is etched so it has lots of holes, like the loops side of Velcro.  Then the teflon is made right on the pan, so it's mechanically bonded to the pan by filling the loops.
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Do you wash your Teflon pans after cooking in them?\nOf course you do!\nJust because Teflon resists sticking does not mean that it does not get dirty.
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yes\ndefinitly if u stop eating some foods cold turkey
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you don't wnt the cookware to chemically react with acids and such in the food.\n\nAt the least, it would make the food taste different, at the worst, it could be poisonous..
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Designed to compete with non-stick teflon-coated cookware, Pan-Arabism was a bad idea that never caught on.  The Pans were coated with crude oil; any food prepared in them was inedible, possibly poisonous.
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With TEFLON(r) DUPONT it is not all that dangerous because of the small amount of TEFLON on the pan or what ever.\nTEFLON gives off TOXIC vapors when heated. \nWhen I worked for DUPONT we wore fresh air masks when we machined TEFLON.
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Read this article and you will find your answer\n\n\n\nhttp://www.cookingforengineers.com/useless/article.php?id=20
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It would be unsanitary not to. I do every time after I use the bathroom. But I do know what you mean. I have seen a lot of people who don't. The ones you immediately want to watch out for are co-workers-don't eat what they brought to a pot luck...gross! Even family members, I don't have that problem with family, but watch out eating what they cooked. People can be just sick....
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I'm still cooking & it's been waaayyy too many times already.  I keep shooing them off but they keep doing it when I'm side-tracked.  lol  Oops....speak of the.....gotta go, it's open again....\n\nLOL - Happy Thanksgiving.
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teflon is a coating. I think it is sprayed on. It becomes a non-stick surface after it dries.
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NONE it is dangerous to stop meds cold turkey, taper off!
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As long as you don't have kitchen-AIDS
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You should take cooking classes. Learn something new and socialize at the same time.
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Some recent studies and lawsuits have identified teflon with certain ailments and diseases. Corning just lost a multi million dollar lawsuit for faulty teflon.
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Definitely. For several reasons. One, you save energy. The boiling temperature of any liquid remains the same no matter how much heat you put into it. (A pressure cooker's case is different.) The added heat simply turns the liquid into gas (steam). And, second, the more energy you put in there, the more violent the evaporation becomes. You don't want your soup frothing out of the pan or your food to burn. So follow your mother and keep it at low.