PFAS “Forever Chemicals” and Nordic Ski Wax

Re:PFAS “Forever Chemicals” and Nordic Ski Wax by FooHentai on Monday January 27, 2020 @12:31AM (#22157050)

>You can scrape the non-stick coatings off of all your pans and eat it, and there will be no detectable fluorinated chemicals in your blood. PTFE is widely used for medical implants, and has been for over 50 years. Its track record is well established.

You fail to mention it's track record for straight up killing birds if you overheat it. Which, to be clear, we're talking about cookware. The odds of it getting left too long on the heat once in a while are very high.

It will kill your pet bird in seconds. Damage to humans? Unclear.

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Re:PFAS “Forever Chemicals” and Nordic Ski Wax by nate_meurer on Monday January 27, 2020 @12:56AM (#22157131)

Birds are easily killed by any kind of smoke. Everything from overheated cooking oil to second hand cigarette smoke can quickly kill your bird. Non-stick cookware is hardly unique in that regard.

PTFE does emit some uniquely nasty chemicals when overheated, but in mercifully small quantities, and the effects seem to be temporary. If you read up on fluorinated polymer fume exposure, you'll find exactly zero known deaths, only a handful of known injuries, and no firm evidence of long term health effects. Considering that there are millions of amateur cooks out there abusing non-stick pans every day since the 1960's, I'd say that's a pretty fucking good track record.

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