| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1300.1 | I wouldn't worry about it | BEING::SCHOELLER | | Sat Jul 30 1988 17:27 | 18 |
| I am not sure on this so don't quote me on it. I believe that small
chips of Silverstone are not poisonous. Therefore, you can still
eat food that has been cooked in a scratched Silverstone pan. HOWEVER,
Silverstone (I am not sure but this may apply to other non-stick
cookware), when left on a hot burner with no food or water in it
(i.e. letting the water boil away accidentally) will give off
toxic fumes when the pan becomes hot enough. I believe that I got
this little tid-bit of information from a TV show such as 20/20
or something along those lines. Somebody did let some water boil
away in the pan and the fumes killed their pet bird or something.
Sorry for being so vague.
--Toddroe
p.s.
I have cooked from a scratched Silverstone skillet for about 5 years
and nothing has happened to me.....me....<cough>....<choke><choke>...
<gasp><choke>.....<gag>.................... < T H U D ! > ;^)
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| 1300.2 | NOT GOOD FOR YOU, BUT NOT OVERTLY POISONOUS | BENTLY::WILDE | Time and Tide wait for Norman | Mon Aug 01 1988 21:11 | 7 |
| It is not GOOD for you to eat the little fragments of silverstone coating
that gets into food from a damaged pan, but it is not overtly poisonous
to use one. The coating is made of chemicals you wouldn't ordinarily
eat, after all. Figure it this way, the pan was less than $10 or $15
and your mate is concerned about it..... 8^}
D
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| 1300.4 | Got them ol' Teflon blues again, Mama... | FGVAXZ::RITZ | It's life and life only... | Wed Aug 03 1988 15:18 | 17 |
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I believe SilverStone coatings are made primarily of Teflon, which
is the DuPont trade name for carbon tetrafluoride. At high
temperatures, (>400 F) a reaction take place and caustic fluorine gas
can be released; unless you get a snoutful, you're probably OK. As far
as eating it, your guess is as good as anyone else's. Certainly we eat
small amounts of fluorine all the time, (my natural bodily fluids have
not yet been perverted 8^) ) but the long- and short-term effects of
ingesting carbon tetrafluoride are, to my knowledge, largely unknown.
A similar compound, carbon tetrachloride, is a known potent carcinogen
and teratogen.
You bet your life (or in this case, someone else is doing the
betting...)
JJRitz
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| 1300.6 | ENAMEL COATED PANS | REMILL::PUSHOR | | Wed Oct 19 1988 15:06 | 6 |
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She may be thinking of the old enamel coated pans. If any food
containing citric acid was cooked in them under the described
conditions, then supposedly, there was the possibility of negative
side effects.
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| 1300.7 | | 16BITS::DELBALSO | I (spade) my (dog face) | Tue Aug 03 1993 23:09 | 12 |
| re: .4
(I know it's been years since it was posted, but I just happened to run
it . . . )
> temperatures, (>400 F) a reaction take place and caustic fluorine gas
> can be released
There's always the chance that it will react to form a flouride which will
strengthen your tooth enamel! :^)
-Jack
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