teflon not safe

[niteowl]

http://www.canada.com/search/story.html?id=f17d380f-ac8e-4f2c-8494-9dc1dde41e1e


It's interesting people are buying non-stick products like frying pans to cook food and yet you see cast-iron grills in fast-food places.
I guess it's because they want to use the least amount of fat/grease as possible.

also in Wednesday's Province.

 

[Maury Beniowski]

Before you can achieve commercial quality grade non-stick pans, you have to pay ten times what you would for cast irons equivalents of the same grade. And Teflon, for all its advantages, just doesn't stand up to the rough going, over time, as in a restaurant kitchen. Cast iron pans retain heat better, and when making up ten entrees in a short time span, using the same pan, you don't want to wait around for the quick heat release aluminum or stainless steel equivalents to come up to speed, or warp themselves useless waiting either...

The same can also be said for woks.