Why Some States Are Saying Goodbye to Teflon Pans
Most kitchens are well stocked with Teflon pans or other nonstick pots and pans. Most cooks love these pans as cooking with less oil and cleaning up is so much easier. But now some states are banning Teflon and other nonstick pots and pans. Why? What is Teflon, a nonstick coating, used on pots and pans? The kitchn states, “Teflon is a brand name for the chemical coating PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) that is used to make cookware nonstick.” Teflon has been around for a long time . Dr. Roy J. Plunkett, working for Dupont’s Jackson Laboratory, discovered Teflon by accident on April 6, 1938. The first nonstick cooking pans were invented years later in 1954 in France. The U.S. had the first nonstick cookware in 1961. The “first commercially available Teflon coated frying pan” was the Happy Pan in 1957. Why are some states banning Teflon a...