Marshall -- did you dowse for glass cookware?  As in Corning Visionware? 
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From: Marshall Dudley <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Fri, May 14, 2010 11:27:12 AM
Subject: Re: CS>PFOA Free Cookware

OK, this has been discussed into the ground previously.  However I did not do 
any dowsing on it, so here goes for cookware:

iron - good
stainless steel - not all good, 6061 ok
teflon - good, but only if you keep it below 500F
aluminum - bad
ceramic - good
porcelain - good

Marshall


Ode Coyote wrote:
> 
> 
>  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
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> 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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