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Are Nonstick Pans Bad For You?
Nonstick pans are useful kitchen items. Our senior food and beverage editor Claire Lower won’t cook an over-easy egg or a thin pancake without one. But do you need to worry about the coating being bad for your health? Not exactly, but it’s important to know how to handle a nonstick pan properly.
The coating of concern is the one you might know as Teflon (one nonstick brand name). Chemically, it’s polytetrafluoroethylene, or PTFE. This substance isn’t a health hazard in itself. It’s inert, meaning it won’t react chemically with your body or anything else. But there are a few related chemicals that may be less safe.
What are the health concerns with the chemicals used in nonstick pans?
The chemical that people are usually concerned with when they talk about nonstick pans is PFOA, or perfluorooctanoic acid. This was used in the manufacturing of Teflon coatings in the early 2000s and earlier, and was fully phased out by 2013. This chemical can cause something called “polymer fume fever” if you breathe in a large amount of said fumes. It’s not easy to get fume fever; case reports include industrial workers and a man who burned off nearly the entire coating of a Teflon pan while taking a nap. Fume fever has flu-like symptoms, but people tend to recover from it within a few hours.
PFOA is part of the group of chemicals known as PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. These are known as “forever chemicals” because they don’t break down in the environment. PFAS have been used in all kinds of industrial manufacturing—not just pans—and they’re everywhere, including in our drinking water. Studies have found them in the blood of, to quote the CDC, “nearly all of the people tested.” This is clearly a bad situation, environmentally. (One small bright spot: blood levels noticeably declined after the chemicals were phased out around a decade ago.)
But are we endangering ourselves by using nonstick pans, specifically? Probably not. The American Cancer Society reports that “nonstick cookware is not a significant source of PFOA exposure,” and notes that neither the Environmental Protection Agency nor the World Health Organization has been able to determine whether PFOAs pose a cancer risk to humans.
How to use a nonstick pan safely
The bottom line here is that a chemical that is related to the chemicals used in nonstick pans may be harmful to human health, but so far we’re not aware of any dangers posed by using them in ordinary cooking. That said, it’s a good idea to make sure you don’t overheat your nonstick pan.
While PFOA isn’t used in the manufacture of the pans anymore, it can still be produced when a PTFE coating breaks down, and that can happen if you heat a pan well over its normal cooking temperature. Take a look at the label next time you buy a nonstick pan, and it will probably give a maximum temperature—usually around 500 degrees Fahrenheit.
This means you shouldn’t preheat an empty pan and walk away, and you should take care of your pans and avoid scratching up the coating (which could make it more likely to release chemicals when it’s heated). It’s also a good idea not to cook at high temperatures with a PTFE-coated pan. If you want to sear something over high heat, a cast iron or stainless steel pan is a better choice.
Trudeau pans Canadian school’s 2019 book-burning ‘reconciliation’ for Indigenous people
A newly revealed 2019 book burning in Canada has politicians and voters up in flames, with many denouncing the act – no matter the “symbolic” intention.
An Ontario francophone school – a school that mixes English and French lessons – initiated a “purification” ceremony in which it burned around 30 books of “questionable” content for “educational purposes.” Ashes from the burned books were used as fertilizer for a tree.
The Conseil scolaire catholique Providence, which oversees grade-school education in southwestern Ontario, did not make the ceremony public, but details about the event surfaced during the election campaign for the Indigenous People’s Commission.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed the controversy during a campaign stop this week, saying, “On a personal level, I would never agree to the burning of books.”
The prime minister did stress, though, that it is not for non-Indigenous people “to tell Indigenous people how they should feel or act to advance reconciliation.”
The project extended to thousands of books that were removed from libraries at 30 schools and have either been destroyed or are in the process of being recycled, but only the initial 30 were burned.
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Titles that were burned included “Tintin in America,” “Asterix and the Indians” and three Lucky Luke comic books, as well as novels and encyclopedias, Barrons reported.
“It was a gesture of reconciliation with the First Nations and a gesture of openness towards other groups represented in the school district and in society,” Lyne Cossette told Radio-Canada, citing works that contained “obsolete and inappropriate content.”
“We regret that we did not intervene to ensure a more appropriate plan for the commemorative ceremony and that it was offensive to some members of the community. We sincerely regret the negative impact of this initiative intended as a gesture of reconciliation,” Cossette wrote.
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Yves-Fran çois Blanchet, leader of the Bloc Québécois, told reporters “we don’t burn books.”
“We expose ourselves to history, we explain it, we demonstrate how society has evolved or must evolve,” he explained.
Chairperson Suzy Kies resigned Wednesday from her post as the co-chair of the Indigenous People’s Commission due to questions over her indigenous origins and her involvement in the ceremony.
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“I refuse to have my story used to harm Justin Trudeau and our party,” Kies said in a statement, according to the Toronto Sun. “This is the reason why I am resigning from my position as co-chair of the Indigenous People’s Commission.”
Reconciliation, the process by which Canada works to acknowledge its troubled past with the First Nations people and works to pay back the people affected by its actions, has taken sharper focus this year after the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves of indigenous children forced to attend residential schools intended to assimilate them into the Canadian culture in the late 1800s.
Lebanese president pans Israeli ‘aggression’ after it retaliates for rockets
Lebanese President Michel Aoun accused Israel of “aggressive, escalatory intentions” on Thursday after Israel carried out airstrikes on targets in southern Lebanon in response to rocket fire from across the northern border.
The airstrikes in Lebanon were the first ones openly acknowledged by the military in southern Lebanon since 2014. But Israeli air maneuvers are commonly reported in Lebanese airspace, which the Lebanese decry as a violation of their sovereignty.
“Israel’s use of its air force to target Lebanese villages is the first of its kind since 2006,” Aoun asserted, “and indicates the presence of aggressive, escalatory intentions in the midst of ongoing threats against Lebanon and its sovereignty.
“What happened is a flagrant and dangerous violation of Security Council Resolution 1701 and a direct threat to security and stability in the south,” Aoun said, referring to a United Nations resolution that ended fighting between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah in 2006.
Israel said it struck military targets in Lebanon late Wednesday in response to rocket fire that sparked fires in northern Israel. Three rockets in total were fired by Palestinian terror groups in Lebanon, the Israeli military said. One fell short of the border. The others landed outside city limits inside Israel.
The army said it held “the country of Lebanon” responsible for attacks originating from its sovereign territory, which took place with the government in Beirut undergoing its worst economic crisis in decades and the country on the brink of collapse.
On the Israeli side of the border, firefighters on Thursday were still battling blazes sparked by two of three rockets fired from Lebanon.
Israel responded to the attack by firing some 100 artillery rounds into Lebanon in three rounds over the course of Wednesday, followed by the airstrikes.
Fields burn following a hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory, near the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
It is unclear whether Hezbollah, the Lebanese terror group backed by Iran, had foreknowledge of or involvement with the rocket attacks.
Lebanon is in the midst of an ongoing political and economic crisis that threatens the future of the country. Spiraling hyperinflation has dramatically devalued the Lebanese lira against the dollar, leading many Lebanese to see their life savings evaporate. Common goods and medicines have become increasingly scarce.
As the economy has collapsed, law and order has deteriorated in the streets. Lebanese have seen rising petty crime and even violent firefights erupt between armed groups and security forces.
Dissatisfaction and anger with the country’s political elite have also been on the rise. The country has long seen patchwork governance at best — with electrical blackouts common even in upscale areas of Beirut.
Wednesday saw thousands of grief-stricken Lebanese mark the first anniversary of a devastating explosion in Beirut port that killed at least 214 people and irreparably scarred the nation’s psyche.
The government resigned in the face of a wave of popular anger but a year later, despite a worsening economic meltdown, no replacement administration has been formed.
Massive rallies in Beirut on the anniversary of the catastrophe were met with tear gas and rubber bullets by Lebanese government forces, according to local media.
A Lebanese man kicks a teargas cannister as Lebanese army and security forces clash with demonstrators near the parliament in downtown Beirut on August 4, 2021. (AFP)
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LA Times pans ‘SNL’ for ‘remarkably weak’ first show of Biden era: ‘Maybe Trump did kill satire’
Critics are panning “Saturday Night Live” for what they described as its “remarkably weak” return to the airwaves following a six-week hiatus that encompassed a chaotic news cycle.
Viewers who tuned into the long-running NBC sketch comedy show noticed that Saturday’s episode largely avoided mocking President Biden after spending the past four years ridiculing former President Donald Trump, played by Alec Baldwin.
Los Angeles Times TV critic Lorraine Ali pulled no punches with a review headlined, “Maybe Trump did kill satire: ‘SNL’ kicks off Biden era in remarkably weak form.”
Ali opened her review with the question: “What will late-night comedy do without Trump?” Judging by the late night mainstay’s first episode since the 45th president left office, Ali answered, “the future looks … uninspired.”
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“After a monthlong break, the show struggled to find its footing and seemed woefully outpaced by a world that’s changed drastically since the venerable sketch comedy, now in its 46th season, was last on the air in December,” Ali wrote. “Despite all the grist — an astounding U.S. Capitol insurrection, Kim and Kanye’s split, Bernie Sanders’ inauguration mittens meme, QAnon idiots in fur, vaccine roll-out blunders, GameStop goofballs gaming Wall Street — host John Krasinski and the cast were given little to nothing to work with by ‘SNL’s’ writers.”
She added, “If Trump has had one victory in the last month, it may be that ‘SNL’ suddenly seems lost without him. The big orange beacon of ridicule has left the building, and where’s the joy in poking fun at Biden … or Vice President Kamala Harris … when all there is to work with so far is an aggressively normal inauguration and civil daily news briefings … ‘SNL’ will have to widen its scope again, because wringing humor out of the White House is never going to be as easy as it has been the last four years.”
The Atlantic staff writer David Sims was just as critical, calling the return of “SNL” following a busy six weeks “the equivalent of a giant shrug,” positing that the show “doesn’t have the energy” to tackle current events head-on and knocking the “limp political humor.”
“The show is clearly entering a transitional period toward a sillier, less overtly political approach, with this strange season serving as an awkward bridge,” Sims wrote.
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Vanity Fair contributor Karen Valby led her review by writing, ” I don’t remember Donald Trump’s name being spoken once on last night’s SNL. Which is awesome—except that so much still sucks,”
Valby went on to suggest that part of the problem was host John Krasinski, writing that show apparently “didn’t know what to do with an apple pie of a guy who’s built like a Biff.”