Well, Teflon is made with PFOA as the solvent I believe, to dissolve the
PTFE into a form that can be coated onto a pot or pan. The pan is then
heated to some high temperature to cook off the PFOA (into the atmosphere),
leaving behind the PTFE non-stick coating, which, as you indicate, is very
inert up to about 600 degrees. I believe the problem with Teflon is that
not ALL the PFOA is gone and cooking continues to release small amounts of
it into the air of your kitchen. Also, over time, some of the less durable
Teflon coatings tend to wear off into your food, especially if you use metal
implements. Anyway, I believe the Hydrolon coating on the Ecolutions
cookware is supposed to be water based so manufacture does less damage to
the environment when they cook/finish the product, and there is zero danger
of releasing PFOA into your home air. Of course, I have also read that at
this point, we all have PFOA in our blood stream even if we don't use Teflon
cookware because so much of it has already been released into the
environment.
Anyway, there are probably other, better choices for PFOA free non-stick
cookware, like ScanPan which is ceramic over aluminum, but those cost 80 to
100 dollars for a small frying pan and my penurious instincts simply will
not allow me to spend that much for a small frying pan, even though I
probably waste twice that on occasion on totally useless gadgets (just spent
$100 to have the rear seat cup holder in my Legacy station wagon replaced -
go figure!)
Del
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ode Coyote" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 7:09 AM
Subject: Re: CS>PFOA Free Cookware
Unless you heat teflon up to around 600 degrees F which makes your food
into smoking charcoal, it's about as inert to everything as anything gets.
You may as well worry about eating silica sand.
No more picnics at the beach, ya know.
Ode
At 03:36 PM 5/13/2010 -0400, you wrote:
Hi:
Does anybody know if being PFOA free makes this non-stick cookware safe to
use:
http://www.ecolutionhome.com/pofa.html
My wife wants me to evaluate it because it is inexpensive and we currently
have no non-stick cookware (use stainless steel with aluminum core
instead).
I have researched it, but only come up with the fact that their process is
water based rather than POFA based, which is supposed to eliminate the
main problem with Teflon cookware. Because it is water based they call it
Hydrolon (clever, huh?). I assume the non-stick material is still a
fluorocarbon solid called PTFE,
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene) but I have not been
able to verify this (but what else would it be?). If so, that would still
be of concern as the material dispersed into your food over time, would it
not?
Del
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