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03-25-2007, 01:55 AM
|  | SKINNY LIKEA BITCH SHOULD | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: and all the stars looked just like little fish
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| |  What Type Of Pans Should I Cook My Food In?
Is teflon unsafe? what about stainless steel? cast iron?
What is the safest type of pan to cook in? |
03-25-2007, 02:57 AM
|  | irreplaceable | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: eden
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| | | they say teflon is bad
as is aluminum
cast iron is supposed to be good but i don't like them
i use stainless steel
don't know about the safety of it
i sometimes wonder about it myself...
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03-25-2007, 03:40 AM
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| | | thick based high quality teflon wok.
just don't overheat them (should never do anyway) and you're safe. |
03-25-2007, 08:28 AM
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| | | What's wrong with Teflon? I know straight aluminium is pretty bad because the alu itself is actually poisonous. That's why almost all aluminium drinks bottles are lined with a ceramic material of some sort. Cast Iron would be good in thermodynamic terms, but I couldn't see it having a particularly long life, since it's naturally quite a soft metal and corrodes easily.
I think in an ideal world, Titanium would be good, although its natural properties would make it very difficult to forge into a good-sized pan without costing the earth.
If I was gonna build the ideal pan, I'd use thick aluminium with a ceramic/cermet lining. |
03-25-2007, 10:05 AM
|  | Chairman~MouseyTongue | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Chairman Meow
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| | Stainless steel?
I hear that some old folks got dementia from cooking in rusty pots all their lives. I have also ingested some rust in the past during desperate times  |
03-25-2007, 10:06 AM
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| | | whoa what the fuck?
there are bad pots?
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03-25-2007, 10:18 AM
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by discolexy  whoa what the fuck?
there are bad pots? | There are some very, very bad pots out there, I'm afraid. |
03-25-2007, 10:59 AM
|  | so smooth | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: xanadu
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| | | Though Teflon is nearly indestructible, it breaks down when exposed to high heat (572 degrees Fahrenheit and above). The fumes can cause flu-like symptoms in humans and kill a pet bird. The moral of this story: Don't broil in teflon.
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03-25-2007, 01:15 PM
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| | | enameled cast iron is my personal choice.
le crueset
but thats for heavy cooking that requires or does better with retained heat. for cooking that requires changes in heat, or being super exact, copper cookware is the best.
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03-25-2007, 01:24 PM
| | give me the sickest one. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: fox in the snow
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| | All Clad  they have copped lined that i want
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but i will carry you home in my teeth
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03-25-2007, 01:25 PM
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| | | when you use copper cookware, remove the food as soon as it's done cooking. never let it set, or god forbid store food in copper cookware. very very bad science happens.
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03-25-2007, 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Eve Is teflon unsafe? what about stainless steel? cast iron?
What is the safest type of pan to cook in? | does it really matter? youre clearly not going to eat the food anyway
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03-25-2007, 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by dirtyplotte enameled cast iron is my personal choice.
le crueset
but thats for heavy cooking that requires or does better with retained heat. for cooking that requires changes in heat, or being super exact, copper cookware is the best. |
i have one lecreuset dutch oven that i love love. but i do use a teflon for quckie stuff like eggs or stir fries, or pancakes
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03-25-2007, 02:10 PM
| | give me the sickest one. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: fox in the snow
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Originally Posted by Sparklelulu when you use copper cookware, remove the food as soon as it's done cooking. never let it set, or god forbid store food in copper cookware. very very bad science happens. |
yeah i want the lined copper for even heat distribution all clad is awesome!
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the cave mouth shines
by pure force of will
i look down on the world
from the top of this lonesome hill
and you can run, and run some more
from here all the way to singapore
but i will carry you home in my teeth
-mountain goats |
03-26-2007, 05:24 AM
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Originally Posted by bigmuff What's wrong with Teflon? I know straight aluminium is pretty bad because the alu itself is actually poisonous. That's why almost all aluminium drinks bottles are lined with a ceramic material of some sort. Cast Iron would be good in thermodynamic terms, but I couldn't see it having a particularly long life, since it's naturally quite a soft metal and corrodes easily.
I think in an ideal world, Titanium would be good, although its natural properties would make it very difficult to forge into a good-sized pan without costing the earth.
If I was gonna build the ideal pan, I'd use thick aluminium with a ceramic/cermet lining. | cast iron pots last FOREVER. because it's cast rather than rolled or beaten it's very thick. And cast iron is not soft, it can't be shaped like most metals because the carbon content makes it brittle. it can be shattered if hit hard enough; you can break cast iron baths with a sledgehammer or pickaxe for example. |
03-26-2007, 06:15 AM
|  | *Tea stained* | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Australia
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| | | I don't trust Teflon but it seems to be the only type of pans you can buy now. I'd perfer to use caste iron but it's terribly expensive. On top of that my nutrition teacher told me that when people ate out of caste iron pots hardly anybody had anemia. It helps with that I hear. I don't how true that is. |
03-26-2007, 08:24 AM
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| | | I never even thought about that. |
03-26-2007, 08:53 PM
| | SKINNY LIKEA BITCH SHOULD | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: and all the stars looked just like little fish
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by BleedingHeart Stainless steel?
I hear that some old folks got dementia from cooking in rusty pots all their lives. I have also ingested some rust in the past during desperate times | rust from stainless steel?!!
god damn.
none of the stores here sell copper plates its all: teflon, stainless steel, cast iron |
03-27-2007, 07:58 AM
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| | | proper stainless steel can not rust. the chromium prevents the iron from bonding with oxygen. |
03-27-2007, 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by bookstore does it really matter? youre clearly not going to eat the food anyway | my thoughts exactly. | |
