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The French National Assembly on Thursday unanimously adopted a bill aimed at restricting the manufacture and sale of products containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — also known as PFAS or “forever chemicals.” The MPs, backed by the government, voted to exclude kitchen utensils from the scope of the text.

Thanks to an intense lobbying push, manufacturers of frying pans and saucepans — including the SEB group, which owns Tefal — are exempt from this ban under the proposed law penned by French Green MPs.

Majority groups initially tried to delay the ban on kitchen utensils until 2030 — a timetable refused by the French Green MPs who instead suggested an exemption until 2026.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I've never liked teflon either. The coating always seems to get scratched up no matter how careful you are with it (and some of those flakes end up in your food). But some people swear by it, so I could see them getting angry about a ban.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I've been auper happy with my ceramic pans the past couple years. Seems like nothing stocks to those bad boys

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A dear friend of mine keeps birds, and she exclusively uses ceramic cookware. She swears by it, and honestly I get it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are the birds she keeps relevant to the ceramic pan discussion?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Yes! Teflon offgasses when heated up, and birds have extremely sensitive lungs. They die really fast from the gases.

You know the expression "canary in the coal mine", right? It's because caged canaries were used to detect methane or carbon monoxide. If the canary died, it's time to get the hell outta there.

This is a problem with self-cleaning ovens as well. So if you keep birds, avoid non-stick and don't use the self-cleaning function of the oven unless your bird is out of the house and in a well-ventilated spot because it's quite likely to kill it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ceramic is basically fancy textured enamel. They do gunk up after a while, just clean with oxygen bleach.