Can Teflon coated cooking pans be poisonous?


If you look at the side of a package it says that the funes can kill Birds. And if it will kill small animals, what is it doing to me?

So um, I’m not too comfortable with them. I was kind of trying to find a good alternative.

http://www2.dupont.com/PFOA/en_US/product_safety/product_bird_safety.html

Have heard that you can’t use soap or cleaning detergents but just cooked salmon and it burnt into the pan. Want to wash it but don’t want to wreck the "natural" flavour that has been building up.

Go ahead and wash it, make sure you dry it as soon as you are finished and put some cooking oil on the entire pan and heat it up to season it and it will be fine. Never wash it and let it air dry, it will rust, it can still be re-seasoned but, it is allot more work.

When I cook it gets black gummy soot all over the bottom of the pan. What causes this. Some say my flame is to high but even on low it does it.

The burner isn’t getting enough air.A suggestion
lift up the top of your stove some tops or on hinges some are not . The burners have an air mixer tube running from the burner it self to the orfice where the gas comes out of the supply line at that point there is an adjustment. in the center is a round hole that fits on the orfice on eather side of that round hole you will see another opening in a moveable cover with a small screw holding it in place losen the screw
and twist the cover to make the openings larger
a small adjustment at a time . try this this on the burner making the most soot . adjust untill the flame is blue . if it works do the other burners if not you need to call your propane dealer and have them check your stove out.