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Conference turris::cooks

Title:	How to Make them Goodies
Notice:	Please Don't Start New Notes for Old Topics! Check 5.*
Moderator:	FUTURE::DDESMAISONSec.com::winalski

Created:	Tue Feb 18 1986
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	4127
Total number of notes:	31160

1300.0. "Must I throw this pan away?" by CTCADM::THOMAS () Fri Jul 29 1988 15:12

    We have a skillet which my wife says is a "Silverstone". It's got
    a few scratches on it, and she says now that it will have to be
    thrown away, otherwise we'll be poisoned or something.
    
    I've never heard anything like this before. It's been scratched
    for more than a year now and we're still alive (at least, I think
    so).
    
    Can anyone enlighten me on this?
    
    Mel

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1300.1	I wouldn't worry about it	BEING::SCHOELLER		`Sat Jul 30 1988 14:27`	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 ! > ;^)
1300.2	NOT GOOD FOR YOU, BUT NOT OVERTLY POISONOUS	BENTLY::WILDE	Time and Tide wait for Norman	`Mon Aug 01 1988 18:11`	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
1300.4	Got them ol' Teflon blues again, Mama...	FGVAXZ::RITZ	It's life and life only...	`Wed Aug 03 1988 12:18`	17
	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
1300.6	ENAMEL COATED PANS	REMILL::PUSHOR		`Wed Oct 19 1988 13:06`	6
	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.
1300.7		16BITS::DELBALSO	I (spade) my (dog face)	`Tue Aug 03 1993 20:09`	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