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The French National Assembly on Thursday unanimously adopted a bill aimed at restricting the manufacture and sale of products containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — also known as PFAS or “forever chemicals.” The MPs, backed by the government, voted to exclude kitchen utensils from the scope of the text.

Thanks to an intense lobbying push, manufacturers of frying pans and saucepans — including the SEB group, which owns Tefal — are exempt from this ban under the proposed law penned by French Green MPs.

Majority groups initially tried to delay the ban on kitchen utensils until 2030 — a timetable refused by the French Green MPs who instead suggested an exemption until 2026.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It's on the non stick coating for a lot of pans and can easily flake off and be ingested if you damage it by using metal utensils. This is why you should never use metal on nonstick.

[–] A_Random_Idiot 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I have family that makes me rip my hair out over this shit.

They put their non-stick in the oven, They use metal tools on it, and they refuse to replace it when the coating fails and starts coming off.

They denigrate me as some kine of hoity-toity rich man with my "pointless" pain replacements, when they arent getting angry at me for "looking down" on them by saying that their pans unsafe.

Just buy a cast iron or a steel pan for fucks sake!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What’s wrong with using it in the oven?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

The teflon coating starts to breakdown at higher temperatures. The pan or box they came in has to state not safe for oven use. Also preheating on the burner can cause it. Food in the pan mostly prevents it from reaching that temperature.

Most Teflon pans used to have plastic handles that dummy proofs them from the oven.

[–] Doof 1 points 8 months ago

I’m more worried that your family forces you to rip your hair out

[–] Sterile_Technique 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I used to work in food service - I remember one day they replaced all the pans with new ones that had a black Teflon coating... about 6 months later, ALL of the black, except a little bit around the edge, was completely gone. Just bare metal. All of it flaked off into our customers' food.

[–] trashgirlfriend 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Were you scraping them with steel wool or something

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

In a commercial kitchen? I'd bet good money they were using metal utensils.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Teflon isn't heat-resistant enough to withstand proper frying temperatures for long and actual chefs are going to do an actual sear. If you want non-stick there's carbon steel or cast iron (as well as proper technique), if you want stick-and-deglaze (yes that's a thing) use stainless steel. All three are going to out-live your great-grandchildren.

If you want something acid-resistant use a ceramic or stainless pan: Stuff like tomato sauce is going to strip patina off cast iron or carbon steel. Sure, you can just re-do the patina but it's going to take some cycles before it's up to its old non-stick properties again. Those non-stick ceramic pans are basically fancy enamel, when they lose their non-stick properties clean them with oxygen bleach that's going to strip fatty residues out of the tiny dimples in the coating and they'll be as good as new. Only way to really damage them is to shatter the coating.

[–] trashgirlfriend 3 points 8 months ago

That makes a lot of sense.

A bit odd that a commercial kitchen would buy teflon though considering how fragile it is.

I guess incompetent management is incompetent.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You don’t think some probably came off in the dishwasher?

[–] Pretzilla 6 points 8 months ago

Even so it still goes into the environment forever, per the name.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To be fair: it is mostly inert. But using carbon steel instead has virtually 0 cost and a much longer lifespan(that yourself)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, I never understood the problem with carbon steel cookware. Like, we achieved peak ease of overall use. I want tools like that to be always there, stay the same, and that I don't have to ever even think about replacing it. Also its appropriate to cook anything in it.

I've never done it or had the need but at most what you can do is polish the cooking surface of it somehow became scratched/rough & food gets caught in those spots. But seriously, scratching steel (in the amount that doesn't immediately go away with normal use) is kinda hard and an achievement.

I think part of the overall problem is that people start cooking in cold steel cookware?