What is the best type of pots and pans to use?
In my last videoI’ve expressed my concerns about using aluminum cookware. So what is the best type of pots and pans to use? As I explain in my video Stainless Steel or Cast Iron: Which Cookware is Better? Is Teflon Safe?stainless steel is An excellent choice. It is the metal of choice for use “in applications where safety and hygiene are considered of utmost importance, such as kitchen utensils.” But what about the studies? demonstration Can the nickel and chromium in stainless steel, which keep the iron in stainless steel rust-free, leach into food during cooking? Leakage only seems to occur when cookware is new. “Metal leaching decreases with sequential cooking cycles and stabilizes after the sixth cooking cycle,” after the sixth time you cook with it. Under more common everyday conditions, using stainless steel cookware is considered to make it safe even for most people who are extremely sensitive to those metals.
A little bit of leached metal can It may even be a good thing in the case of pure iron, such as a cast iron skillet, which may have the “beneficial effect” of helping to improve iron status and potentially reduce The incidence of iron deficiency anemia among children and women of reproductive age. The only caveat is that it should not be fry In cast iron. Frying is unhealthy, regardless of the type of cookware, but at high temperatures, vegetable oil can react with iron and create trans fats.
How about using non-stick pans? Teflon, also known as polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), “is used as an interior coating material in nonstick cookware.” The dark history of Teflon was the subject of a 2019 film called Dark watersstarring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway. Employees of DuPont’s Teflon division began DuPont delivered babies with deformities before “DuPont eliminated all female personnel” from the unit. Of course, the corporation buried it all, hiding it from regulators and the public. “Despite this significant history of industry knowledge” about how toxic some of the chemicals used to make Teflon were, it was able to keep it under wraps until it was eventually forced to settle for more than $500 million after one of the chemicals was linked to “kidney and testicular cancers, pregnancy-induced hypertension, ulcerative colitis, and high cholesterol.”
“At normal cooking temperatures, PTFE coated cookware Press releases various gases and chemicals that exhibit mild to severe toxicity.” As you can see below and at minute 2:38 of my videoDifferent gases are released at different temperatures and their toxic effects have been documented.
You have I’m listening From “canaries in the coal mine”? This is more like “canaries in the kitchen, since cooking with Teflon cookware is well known for killing pet birds,” and Teflon-coated heat lamp bulbs can clean half a flock of chickens out.
“Apart from the gases released When heating pans, the coating starts to get damaged after a certain amount of time. It is normally recommended to use slow heating when cooking in Teflon-coated pans, but you can imagine how consumers can ignore this. And, if you are not careful, some of the Teflon can start to come off and get into your food, although the effects of ingestion are unknown.
I could only find one study that looks at the potential effects on human health of cooking with nonstick pots and pans. The researchers found that using nonstick cookware was associated with about a 50 percent increase in colorectal cancer risk, but that may have been due to what they were cooking on. “Nonstick cookware is used in hazardous cooking methods (i.e., roasting, frying, grilling, or barbecuing) at high temperatures, primarily for meat, poultry, or fish,” in which carcinogenic heterocyclic amines (HCAs) are formed from the animal protein. Then, the animal fat can produce another class of carcinogens called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Though it’s possible that it was the Teflon itself, which contains suspected carcinogens like that C8 compound from the film Dark watersalso known as PFOA, perfluorooctanoic acid.
“Due to toxicity concerns, PFOA has been replaced with other chemicals like GenX, but these new alternatives are also suspected of having similar toxicity.” However, we have already contaminated the Earth so much with it that we can contract it. prepackaged in foods before they are even cooked, particularly in dairy products, fish and other meats; now, “meat is the main source of human exposure” to these toxic contaminants. Of these, seafood is The worst. In a study of diets around the world, fish and other seafood were “major contributors” of perfluoroalkyl substances, as expected, since everything ends up in the sea. Although the aquatic food chain is The “primary mechanism of transfer” of these toxins into the human diet, “foods stored or prepared in fat-resistant packaging materials,” such as microwave popcorn, may also be a source.
In 2019, Oral-B Glide floss was Tried. Six of the 18 floss products the researchers tested showed evidence of Teflon-like compounds. Did those who used that type of floss end up with higher levels in their bloodstream? Yes, apparently so. Higher levels of perfluorohexanesulfonic acid were found in Oral-B Glide flossers, as you can see below and at minute 5:28 of my blog post. video.
There are In the modern world, there are many environmental exposures that we cannot avoid, but we should not make them worse by adding them to consumer products. At least we have some power to “reduce” [our] personal exposure to these harmful chemicals.”
This is the second in a series of three videos on kitchen utensils. The first was Are aluminum containers, bottles and foils safe?and the next one is Are melamine plates and polyamide plastic utensils safe?.
What about pressure cooking? I already talked about that in Does pressure cooking preserve nutrients?.
So what is the safest way to prepare meat? See Carcinogens in meat.
