Hello all,
We have a decent array of pots and pans. A lot of Stainless Steel pots and pans, and a few non-stick pans (not sure if teflon but probably), and today my mom brought home a "green-life" ceramic pan.
I read on this one site "rebeccawood.com" That Teflon is very toxic, and I'm not a big fan of that, especuially since I would turn up the heat to "hi" to get it to heat fast, which is a bad idea and it would smell a lot. It's my fault I guess for not understanding that they put toxic materials in our cookware....
But the site also mentioned that "Ceramic" cookware is just metal dipped in some plastic non-stick solution, and isn't even ceramic? the set my mom got was a 30$ set from Walmart (2 pans) from "Green-Life."
Sounds too cheap to me.
I personally only want to use Stainless Steel pots and pans. I know it requires more cleaning, but it seems to have a much higher safety factor, unless it starts pitting, which i'm not 100% sure when that starts happening?
Thoughts and advice on this all? My dad just cooked some food for us on this new pan, and from the reviews it just doesn't sound appetizing to me to eat off of that, granted we've eaten lots of food off of other "non-stick stuff."
All the stuff we eat, eat off of, cook with, etc is all scary...
We have a decent array of pots and pans. A lot of Stainless Steel pots and pans, and a few non-stick pans (not sure if teflon but probably), and today my mom brought home a "green-life" ceramic pan.
I read on this one site "rebeccawood.com" That Teflon is very toxic, and I'm not a big fan of that, especuially since I would turn up the heat to "hi" to get it to heat fast, which is a bad idea and it would smell a lot. It's my fault I guess for not understanding that they put toxic materials in our cookware....
But the site also mentioned that "Ceramic" cookware is just metal dipped in some plastic non-stick solution, and isn't even ceramic? the set my mom got was a 30$ set from Walmart (2 pans) from "Green-Life."
Sounds too cheap to me.
I personally only want to use Stainless Steel pots and pans. I know it requires more cleaning, but it seems to have a much higher safety factor, unless it starts pitting, which i'm not 100% sure when that starts happening?
Thoughts and advice on this all? My dad just cooked some food for us on this new pan, and from the reviews it just doesn't sound appetizing to me to eat off of that, granted we've eaten lots of food off of other "non-stick stuff."
All the stuff we eat, eat off of, cook with, etc is all scary...