I recall reading about a thanksgiving meal and the off gassing from teflon killed 15 parrots throughout the house in about 15 minutes.
Cooking and bird safety
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#92Anyone try to physically polish cast iron? My Lodge pans are well seasoned but still have a rough surface area that can cause bits to catch.
I tried this. It was a huge pain in the ass, made a big mess, took a lot of time, and still isn’t perfect. It definitely has a better nonstick surface now, but while I’m usually inclined to be cheap and do things myself,
I might spring for a pre-polished one in the future.
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#93Since a few years, I do own only iron pans. Teflon for home use as pans was a ridiculous idea: you need to take care of it and it will wear out after some time and needs to be replaced. Iron pans need very little care and get better with age. What is the point?
I have one of these "marble" pans.
https://www.amazon.com/Ceramic-Marble-Coated-Aluminium-KW/dp...
I bought it at an Asian kitchen store 8-9 years ago because I needed a pan, and it's still unbelievably nonstick. I have overheated it multiple times, but carefully avoided using metal utensils on it. I'm not sure if it's really made of marble but it certainly is durable.
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#94Since a few years, I do own only iron pans. Teflon for home use as pans was a ridiculous idea: you need to take care of it and it will wear out after some time and needs to be replaced. Iron pans need very little care and get better with age. What is the point?
Iron pans are heavy and work horribly on anything but gas, which is even worse for the lungs.
They work phenomenally well on induction stoves! I use a single-burner plug-in induction unit in my small apartment kitchen and it works so well cast iron pans and an iron dutch oven.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't need to skip eggs! They are high in cholesterol, but the dietary cholesterol from eggs doesn't impact your serum (blood) cholesterol levels the way other fats do. Eggs are one of the best bang-for-your-buck foods you can work into your diet. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-ch...
The site you linked says that studies have shown a link between eating eggs and heart disease, which was the basis of my suggestion that they be avoided. > Although some studies have found a link between eating eggs and heart disease, there could be other reasons for these findings. and: > Health experts now suggest eating as little dietary cholesterol as you can, aiming to keep intake under 300 milligrams (mg) a day…
Straight from the 2015 USDA guidelines:
Previously, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommended that cholesterol intake be limited to no more than 300 milligrams per day. The 2015 DGAC will not bring forward this recommendation because available evidence shows no appreciable relationship between consumption of dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol, consistent with the conclusions of the AHA/ACC report. Cholesterol is not a nutrient of concern for overconsumption.
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It's super non-stick. I know you're going to rebut with saying that iron pans are too, and I'm sure they are, but most people don't want to put in any level of the effort needed to make iron pans as non-stick as teflon. A lot of people care only a mild amount about cooking, and don't want to invest the time to know how to properly use a cast iron or a carbon steel (which I have and only seldom use). They'd rather get…
This. I absolutely hate cooking. With a passion. I don't want to spend time on it. I wish it was possible to buy decent home cooked food for a reasonable fee :( We can outsource pretty much everything else that's a chore. I drop my washing in a bag to be ready for a tenner tomorrow. Groceries can be delivered for cheap. But delivered or takeaway food is generally very expensive and not very healthy. It's still viewed…
I like cooking, but I don't want to take care of the small details, so I just get a non-stick pan and cook what I like with it.
(Similarly, I like programming, but that doesn't mean I enjoy taking care of all the mallocs/free that a C program requires, I just use a language with a GC)
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I usually use stainless and cast iron but with green chef meals I’m often tasked with searing chicken or fish in a pan and cleaning those types of pan after a cook like that gets mighty old. So I bought a Tramontina non stick exclusively for those cooks. I suspect it may last a bit longer since it’s a secondary pan I only use for those cases so it feels less wasteful as a purchase.
you can deglaze that on the stove. heat a very shallow layer of water in the pan, the stuck layer will soften and dissolve. push a roux spoon gently around the bottom and then simply pour it out. beyond that, if you are using stainless, go ahead and clean it with steel wool. a bundle of small chain is a good equivalent for cast iron.
White vinegar does a better job deglazing than hot water.
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#98> Unattended cookware that overheats—or cookware that’s heated up without anything added to the pan—can release fumes that are toxic to birds So, it's not Teflon. It's burning your pan (I wouldn't recommended breathing that in neither. And I would definitely not recommend you put your pan in the fire without any thermal load)
No, its teflon burning in your pan…
The list of things that become toxic once you burn them is a very long one
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Lots of things about cooking are risky. If you ask one by one if that's really worth risking, it's tempting to say no every time, and then there's almost nothing left. It doesn't work to treat risk as a binary factor.
I think the Teflon question is different though. It is like lead in a sense, we know it is carcinogenic, just like we know lead is a neuro-poison. The only question is whether we are doing good enough job at preventing it from leaking into our bodies. With lead, a lot of people thought so, but still they put it in our gasoline, in solder for our water pipes, etc. and a lot of people got some pretty bad neuro-developm…
> we know it is carcinogenic
Do we? PFOA is "possibly carcinogenic" but they've stopped using it when making teflon.
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Extremely toxic - https://www.science.gov/topicpages/p/ptfe+fume+exposure.html... . It’s funny, if you are into 3d printing a huge safety thing is not heating your hot end above 250c if you have a bowden tube - made of PTFE. Over 250C is the breakdown point, which seems like a stove would hit pretty easily.
That’s kinda half-right. The issue isn’t having a Bowden tube, it’s having teflon that extends into the hot part of the hotend. For example, a v6 lite can’t go above 250 regardless of whether it’s in a Bowden config or not, while a V6 can hit 350 with a Bowden tube.
The keyword everyone's thinking of is "all-metal hotend" - not "Bowden tube".