I hate how we allowed these ghouls to make the word "nonstick" synonymous with teflon/PFAS. It makes it sound like if you use a regular pan, you constantly have to scrape off burnt food or something. That's just not true, a well-seasoned regular pan can be just as "nonstick" as one with a PFAS coating. It's a fake non-problem that was invented to sell this garbage that poisons us and the environment. If it was up to me, the executives at dupont and anyone else responsible for this psyop would be sent off to labor camps (with humane working conditions of course)

What a ridiculous world we live in. The board members should be facing prison sentences, the company's liquidated and the money back to the people.

Carbon steel or cast iron all the way.

Keep in mind that nonstick cookware is still very safe when handled correctly. The problem lies in the manufacturing of these needed chemicals. When these chemicals get into the environment, because of improper safety management, it will stay there for hundreds of years, taking it's toll on flora and fauna.

GenX was basically told that "Teflon is inert, it can't hurt you."

Well fuck me.

Just use cast iron and stainless steel. I don't own anything else.

Capitalists furious at suggestion they value human life over money

ftfy

Cast iron ftw!

How about the suggestions that they are selling a product that should last for several lifetimes but instead lasts for 5 years if you treat it very well?

All real nonstick cookware is Teflon or chemically related to it. I almost always use cast iron or carbon steel but they are not nonstick, you have to control heat and acidity for them to release well. You can even see in nonstick pans that liquids will tend to bead up and not spread out because of the surface, versus in any other pan you'll only see water bead up when you hit certain temps. I can only achieve something like a French omelette in a nonstick pan, carbon steel has always been a disaster, because of that me and a lot of other people keep a nonstick around just for certain egg and crepe recipes.

Wikipedia makes it sound like not all Teflon pans require PFOA, which is the actual problem here (not that the article describes it clearly).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-stick_surface

PFOA/PFOS is in lots of other household shit though, like raincoats

Is it really that bad? Sure it might be linked to cancer but so are lots of other things.

I personally just use normal cookware plus some vision stuff. All you need to do is salute some onions ahead of adding other things. The juice from the onions acts as a natural non stick.

Just clean your cookware people