| You know it is REALLY HARD to figure out if a non-stick coating is free of teflon-and-friends. Lots of things called "ceramic" might not be free of pfoa/pfte/etc (this is a pain when you have parrots, because one overheated pan, and all birds in the house - big and small - will die) As one example, I bought some hexclad pans. They had very strong wording about their use of teflon: https://hexclad.com/blogs/posts/pfoa-free when you try to figure out what their coating is, you are told: "We’ve used a high-grade non-toxic Japanese coating infused with diamond dust for extra toughness." (https://hexclad.com/pages/hexclad-science) and... well keep digging. Finally you can find this: Q: Are your pans free of PTFE? A: Our pans are PFOA free but contain some PTFE. PTFE is in over 95% of all nonstick cookware including our ceramic-based nonstick. PTFE is safe and inert. In fact, it is used in surgical matches meshes, dental implants and heart stents which are all implanted in the body. We do not use PFOA chemicals and other chemicals that gave many other nonstick pans a bad name. Why do we use some PTFE? Sadly, non-PTFE nonstick cookware does not work well for long periods of time. In fact, in our tests, the largest non-PTFE nonstick in the world only held up for 45 minutes of consecutive use. https://hexcladcommercial.com/pages/frequently-asked-questio... What's especially ridiculous is that the "good" hexclad sets you can get at costco also put this coating on the BOTTOM of the pan, against the flame or burner! High temperature is the achilles heel for these chemicals. took them back. EDIT: also https://www.consumerreports.org/toxic-chemicals-substances/y... |