Yowza! asked:
I am looking at buying a set, I saw some on QVC for about $150 and was thinking about buying them. I am NOT an experienced cook, I am quite horrible, actually, and I only cook about 3 or 4 times a week. I’d heard that they release chemicals or something into your food.
Do you think this set would be ok for me?
No, it is the “non-stick” that puts off toxic fumes when brought to oven temperature. Never use a nonstick pan in the oven. Hard anodized it wonderful. I use it everyday.
Yes. But even water is toxic if you drink enough of it. (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5012154)
You would need to be cooking and eating all the time before before the toxins would begin to affect you. You’d die from the effects of gluttony before the toxins would make you ill.
Down through the history of cooking in pots and kettles, everything at one time or another has been declared toxic. Cast iron was said to leach out too much iron for most people, tinware was said to leach out toxic chemicals, cast aluminum was to leach out some of the metal into acidic foods, pottery had lead in it, teflon and other non stick coatings are said to poison people when they start coming off.
Want to be totally safe? Don’t cook in cookware! That means to eat everything raw!
I really doubt that any of the “old wives tales” or the “new old wives tales” of cookware being toxic is really true!
I have a few of every kind of cookware available in my kitchen. Some kettles are used for only one purpose, some are grabbed when anything needs to be cooked.
Old Ranch Cook of 50+ years experience!