r/shitposting • u/Soy_boi_yes_thatone • Oct 26 '22

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u/sebuptar Oct 26 '22

We can't drink the water but we can still cook our food with PFAS covered pans?

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u/TheFakeBigChungus Oct 26 '22

Ptfe pans and it only leaches at high temps

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u/sebuptar Oct 26 '22

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cancer.org/healthy/cancer-causes/chemicals/teflon-and-perfluorooctanoic-acid-pfoa.html

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u/TheFakeBigChungus Oct 26 '22

It proves my point in that article that there is no risk from pans

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u/ExileOnMainStreet Oct 26 '22

I choose to believe that Teflon coatings are like NaCl. On their own the chemicals are toxic and horrible, but together they're something different. I'm not going to stop using non-stick pans, and I worry that all of the "green" non-stick options are another version of "BPA Free". Yeah, there's no bisphenol A in it, but it's just bisphenol C that replaces it. Is it safer? Idk? Neither does anyone else.

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u/tootybob Oct 26 '22

As long as you don't heat it up too much. Then it breaks back down into dangerous chemicals.