"Very hot" is 500°F (260°C). [475* to be conservative] Below that, Teflon is about as inert as anything gets and is used in labware for that very reason. Sure, I like my eggs to look like charcoal briquettes. Using cooking oil at it's smokepoint is very exciting on a gas stove. Use butter, olive or corn oil and you'll be safe, or choke and cough while finding the exhaust fan switch and still be safe from the horrors of teflon. No smoke, no fire. And melting down cookware is too expensive to be my favorite hobby.
Smoke Points: Safflower 265 degrees C... 509 degree Fahrenheit [ Temper some steel to knife hardness and stab the cook] Sunflower 246 degrees C... 474.8 degree Fahrenheit [Get that stuff smoking..change cooks or temper some steel to file hardness so you can escape the kitchen] Soybean 241 degrees C...465.8 F Canola 238 degrees C Corn 236 degrees C Peanut 231 degrees C Sesame 215 degrees C Olive 190 degrees C Lards 183 to 205 degrees C Ode At 04:23 PM 12/7/2005 -0700, you wrote: > >I do not use Teflon. My understanding is that when it is heated very hot, >it breaks down to yield Saran....nerve gas. > >-----Original Message----- >From: sol [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:47 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: CS>Aluminum cookware > >Speaking of aluminum cookware, just try to find any. Uncoated with >teflon, I mean. I am beginning to wonder if some of my problems are from >nickel leaching from stainless steel, though I'm very carefu, never >scour the pans, etc. I'd like to get an aluminum pan but can no longer >find any. >Most of the anodized ones I've seen all have teflon linings and I'd >simply rather not use that. I haven't thrown out my pans that do have >teflon, but I don't really see the need for it in ordinary saucepans. >And none of it that I've had in any pan ever aged well. >sol > >Jim Holmes wrote: > >> My point is that the presence of a large amount of a substance near >> the surface of the earth does not have a necessary relationship to its >> toxicity. >> >> >> >> Iron is very toxic. When small children eat overdoses of ordinary >> multiple vitamins, they may die from the iron. >> >> >> >> I have yet to see an argument regarding aluminum that is convincing >> one way or the other, but I have not used it for cook wear for years. >> >> >> > > >-- >The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > >Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > >To post, address your message to: [email protected] > >Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] > >The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... > >List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > > > > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.12/193 - Release Date: 12/6/2005 > > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.12 - Release Date: 12/6/2005 > > Stop on in and visit! www.silverpuppy.com www.colloidal-silver-generator.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.12 - Release Date: 12/7/2005
