No More Non-Stick

When a pan is heated to high temperatures—like to make those post-surf huevos rancheros you might be craving right about now—non-stick coatings such as Teflon can break apart into potentially carcinogenic substances that you definitely don’t want in your eggs. How do you know if your pans are non-stick? If the food slides right off the pan without oil, that’s a pretty good bet. Switch over to stainless-steel, iron or copper-coated cookwear—even if it means losing the 12-piece set and opting for a smaller number of new pots and pans.

This entry was posted on Monday, September 22nd, 2014 at 10:59 am. It is filed under Sustainability and tagged with cooking, non-stick, teflon. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.