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sh!t. I think I melted all the teflon off my pan

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dpopiz

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I was going to fry some eggs this morning so I put a little vegetable oil in a pan on high heat....
then somehow I got distracted...
eventually I started smelling something and popped out of my room to see the entire house filled with smoke.

I took the pan and looked at it: there were all the little globs of orangish stuff. so I ran it under some water. interestingly enough, no grease spattered, so I scrubed at it with a brush and some detergent. pretty soon I realized that orange goo was gumming up the brush, so I got some detergent on my hands and tried to get the goo out of the brush. this goo was very sticky. like glue almost. in fact, my hands are still sticky despite all the detergent I scrubbed them with.

dammit did I just melt off the non-stick coating? and what about breathing teflon smoke for about an hour?
 
i think u ruined ur teflon coat long ago by using the brush, u just witnessed its final death
teflon + sponge = yes teflon + metal or brush = no
 
IIRC, teflon is tetrafluoroethylene
(googled it and I recall correctly) http://inventors.about.com/lib...inventors/blteflon.htm

Anyway, they bake it onto the pan at around 7 or 8 hundred degrees. If you got it too hot, you started destroying molecules..
If you have any knowledge of basic chemistry, you'll realize that flourine is more reactive than chlorine (and you do realize that breathing in chlorine is pretty bad, don't you?)
Plus, the ethylene will form ethylene glycol with the water vapor in the air to create ethylene glycol - so you've been breathing in radiator fluid.
Other by-products will include freon.

Nice knowing ya.











(I'm just making this up to scare the OP)
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
IIRC, teflon is tetrafluoroethylene
(googled it and I recall correctly) http://inventors.about.com/lib...inventors/blteflon.htm

Anyway, they bake it onto the pan at around 7 or 8 hundred degrees. If you got it too hot, you started destroying molecules..
If you have any knowledge of basic chemistry, you'll realize that flourine is more reactive than chlorine (and you do realize that breathing in chlorine is pretty bad, don't you?)
Plus, the ethylene will form ethylene glycol with the water vapor in the air to create ethylene glycol - so you've been breathing in radiator fluid.
Other by-products will include freon.

Nice knowing ya.










(I'm just making this up to scare the OP)
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Bwahaha
 
Don't cook on teflon. It comes off into the food, which is just nasty, cause you're eating small pieces of metal. Take a teaspoon of baking soda and put it in your used teflon pan with some water. Stir it up for a minute. Pour it into a glass of water. Repeat with a used stainless steel pan. If you can't taste a noticeable difference in the water, I'll be surprised. One's going to taste like metal, and the other's going to taste like water.
 
Originally posted by: xirtam
Don't cook on teflon. It comes off into the food, which is just nasty, cause you're eating small pieces of metal. Take a teaspoon of baking soda and put it in your used teflon pan with some water. Stir it up for a minute. Pour it into a glass of water. Repeat with a used stainless steel pan. If you can't taste a noticeable difference in the water, I'll be surprised. One's going to taste like metal, and the other's going to taste like water.
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I dunno about you, but I don't usually cook baking soda water with my frying pans. I cook corned beef hash with mine, and it NEVER sticks, and always tastes great.


Made myself hungry...
 
Originally posted by: xirtam
Don't cook on teflon. It comes off into the food, which is just nasty, cause you're eating small pieces of metal. Take a teaspoon of baking soda and put it in your used teflon pan with some water. Stir it up for a minute. Pour it into a glass of water. Repeat with a used stainless steel pan. If you can't taste a noticeable difference in the water, I'll be surprised. One's going to taste like metal, and the other's going to taste like water.
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Teflon isn't a metal. What kind of reaction is there between aluminum and baking soda, anyway?
 
We used to have a nice teflon coated baking pan, but then my room-mate didn't realize that you're supposed to actually clean it off and not scrape it with a metal spatula, so now its just a normal pan.
 
All the baking soda is there for is to absorb whatever would normally come off into your food. In this case, teflon.
 
Originally posted by: xirtam
Don't cook on teflon. It comes off into the food, which is just nasty, cause you're eating small pieces of metal. Take a teaspoon of baking soda and put it in your used teflon pan with some water. Stir it up for a minute. Pour it into a glass of water. Repeat with a used stainless steel pan. If you can't taste a noticeable difference in the water, I'll be surprised. One's going to taste like metal, and the other's going to taste like water.
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Use wooden or plastic spatulas and teflon doesn't come off!
 
Have you tried string the water/baking soda mixture with wooden or plastic spoons? The fact that there's a strong possibility that you're going to get a good dose of teflon over time is enough to convince me not to use it. But hey, if you want to eat it, feel free.
 
Originally posted by: xirtam
Don't cook on teflon. It comes off into the food, which is just nasty, cause you're eating small pieces of metal. Take a teaspoon of baking soda and put it in your used teflon pan with some water. Stir it up for a minute. Pour it into a glass of water. Repeat with a used stainless steel pan. If you can't taste a noticeable difference in the water, I'll be surprised. One's going to taste like metal, and the other's going to taste like water.
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The famous Saladmaster pan test. Wahaha! Anyway, it does taste pretty nasty. Although, Saladmaster is a major ripoff. Used to sell it.
 
Originally posted by: xirtam
The fact that there's a strong possibility that you're going to get a good dose of teflon over time is enough to convince me not to use it. But hey, if you want to eat it, feel free.
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Teflon doesn't react with anything in your body. Teflon is extremely resistant to any chemical changes. It'll pass right through as you don't have the extremely caustic chemicals needed to do anything but pass right through. Its basically fiber as far as our body is concerned. But if you are that afraid of fiber, there isn't anything we can do to convince you otherwise.
 
Originally posted by: dullard
Originally posted by: xirtam
The fact that there's a strong possibility that you're going to get a good dose of teflon over time is enough to convince me not to use it. But hey, if you want to eat it, feel free.
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Teflon doesn't react with anything in your body. Teflon is extremely resistant to any chemical changes. It'll pass right through as you don't have the extremely caustic chemicals needed to do anything but pass right through. Its basically fiber as far as our body is concerned. But if you are that afraid of fiber, there isn't anything we can do to convince you otherwise.
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There are a lot of things that will probably "pass right through" me that I'd rather not eat.
 
Originally posted by: xirtam
There are a lot of things that will probably "pass right through" me that I'd rather not eat.
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But that doesn't mean they are harmful. As far as I know the only commercially available thing that will react to teflon is sodium metal disolved in just enough ether to make it liquid. If you've dealt with sodium metal, you know how reactive that stuff is. Fact is you body doesn't have anything like that that will react to it.

 
Though if you'd had any birds (parrots, conures, finches, parakeets, etc), they would all be dead.

Those fumes are enough to kill them (used to work for a pet store), so I wonder what they are doing to your lungs? 😕
 
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