• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    2 days ago

    get rid of the Teflon non-stick pans

    No, definitely don’t. Teflon is completely safe, once it’s already made. Keep that shit as long as you can. But avoid buying new Teflon, because the manufacturing process puts a lot of plastics into the environment.

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      1 day ago

      Contact with anything will result in trace material being exchanged. It’s not acutely dangerous but could be contributing to the buildup of microplastics inside us. I donated the ones I had rather than junk them so that someone who disagrees can still use them, plus I’m aware restaurants still use them, but at this point I’m trying to minimize the amount of plastics that contact my food. Which also involves avoiding plastic utensils while cooking. I’ve got a mix of metal and wooden utensils, avoiding teflon means I can use the metal ones whenever, too.

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        1 day ago

        Sure, but the chemical structure of teflon itself is pretty safe and can be easily expelled by the body, which puts it in a whole different category in terms of safety compared to the far more dangerous so-called “forever chemicals” that are produced and released during the production of teflon.