Slippery Teflon Charges Won't Stick

Tech Central Station ^ | 10/12/2005 | Gregory Conko and Henry I. Miller

[weekendwarrior]

Slippery Teflon Charges Won't Stick

By Gregory Conko and Henry I. Miller

The uncanny ability of President Ronald Reagan to deflect public criticism won him the nickname, "The Teflon President." Ironically, now it is Teflon itself that is facing the heat, as anti-chemical groups and trial attorneys have joined forces to cook up controversy over a product that has become one of America's most trusted consumer icons, as well as an integral part of our language, like Thermos and Kleenex.

The radical Environmental Working Group has charged that the billions of meals worldwide prepared every day on Teflon cookware are being contaminated with "Teflon toxins," and two Florida-based law firms have filed a $5 billion class-action suit in eight states against the manufacturer, DuPont, for "failing" to warn consumers about the product's alleged dangers.

But, like many product-safety scares these days, these charges are bogus. And that really fries us.

[weekendwarrior]

Environmental "activists" are at it again. Take a look.

[ronnied]

i like my cast iron & stainless steel...

[tx_eggman]

i like my cast iron

Do you mind if I borrow one of your frying pans for a minute, the idiot bastards over at the "radical Environmental Wanking Group" need one up side the head ....

[Chanticleer]

Do you mind if I borrow one of your frying pans for a minute, the idiot bastards over at the "radical Environmental Wanking Group" need one up side the head ....

My +3 frying pan is at your service.

[Grut]

I don't like teflon because it doesn't last; a stainless or aluminum or iron pan is durable, where the same pan coated with teflon is a throwaway after a year or so. From the manufacturer's point of view this is a good thing but bedamned if I'll buy into that particular con.

That said, I wonder what strange and statistically unlikely diseases are brought on by standing downwind of lawyers like these.

[lOKKI]

Old News.

[ronnied]

i guess that would be my chicken frier, it's the .45 of frying pans...

[PAR35]

i like my cast iron & stainless steel...

Yes, I've culled all but one non-stick that my wife uses for a particular dish, and all but one aluminum from the kitchen. Everything else is stainless or cast iron for the cooking surface.

[tje]

I used to share your opinion of Teflon coated frying pans.. but I bought an All-Clad teflon coated one.. And it's great. I've had it 5 years and I see no signs of failure. But it's not a cheap pan...