Is teflon unsafe? what about stainless steel? cast iron?



What is the safest type of pan to cook in?

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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should i choose a noble occupation
if i did i'd only show up late and sick
and they would stare at me with hatred
plus my only natural talent's wasted

thick based high quality teflon wok.

just don't overheat them (should never do anyway) and you're safe.

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.

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

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