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Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

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Re: Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

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That's why you should use butter because it's well known and you can test if you're eating too much.

Neither of those things mean it’s better. You could say that about battery acid.

It's better in that it tastes good and it prevents sticking. Neither of which you can say about battery acid.

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I’ve never seen eggs not stick to cast iron.

Let the eggs develop a crust on the bottom before doing anything with them.

At that point I could just cook in stainless steel. The hope is to not have crusty eggs imo

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That's why you should use butter because it's well known and you can test if you're eating too much.

Neither of those things mean it’s better. You could say that about battery acid.

How about that whole eating fat leads to heart disease being long disproven point?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9794145/

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Just cook with stainless steel, it's not that hard. Add and warm fat before adding your other ingredients to prevent sticking or if you don't want additional fat, then add liquid to reduce at the end (the same way you do a wine reduction you can just use a bit of water) if your food sticks and you need to scrape it off the bottom.

This - its super easy. I use an IR temp gun and once the pan is 170, add 1 tbsp. of butter, and it never sticks. I've showed friends and they still insist on their nasty Teflon/non-stick crap.

170c right? I do the same but use 350f. I also heat the pan before adding oil. Works perfectly every time. Even more nonstick than any nonstick pan I’ve used.

Re: Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

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It must be, because I know the pans were seasoned in all cases.

Hot pan , cold oil is the trick

Oh! Very grateful for the correction. I do feel that’s a third-degree burn waiting to happen. Are you saying heat the pain to high, then put on the oil? Doesn’t that splash painfully?

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...and take the opportunity to ditch the teflon pans while you're at it. They're toxic. https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/teflon-polytetrafluor...

This myth needs to die. Teflon is only an issue at temperatures you're just not going to encounter in a kitchen. And if you did encounter such temperature, and you had oil on the pan - well you've poisoned yourself more than the Teflon would!

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Re: Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

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A lot of coffee makers run hot water over black plastics too.

My read of this article is that the main problem comes from black plastic that claims to be made of recycled material being contaminated.

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