To add to the other responses, if you were to leave a teflon pan on the stove without anything in it (ie forgot to turn a stove off) as it gets hotter the teflon starts to break down & starts boiling those chemicals back into the air.
I mean that’s obviously something you shouldn’t do ever anyway. But yeah, it can cause “teflon fever” if you get it really hot (~450°C) and breathe in the fumes. Luckily, even if you fuck up like that, the “flu” usually goes away within few days. If you go turbo idiot and heat up it up ridiculously hot and stand there breathing it in for an extended amount of time then you can fuck yourself up. Though in that situation at least you don’t have to worry about their brain because it’s probably already messed up, doing something so idiotic.
Normal use, it seems modern teflon is fine. Usually the concern seems to be more about the environmental impact or factory conditions than impact to those using them as cookware.
To add to the other responses, if you were to leave a teflon pan on the stove without anything in it (ie forgot to turn a stove off) as it gets hotter the teflon starts to break down & starts boiling those chemicals back into the air.
I mean that’s obviously something you shouldn’t do ever anyway. But yeah, it can cause “teflon fever” if you get it really hot (~450°C) and breathe in the fumes. Luckily, even if you fuck up like that, the “flu” usually goes away within few days. If you go turbo idiot and heat up it up ridiculously hot and stand there breathing it in for an extended amount of time then you can fuck yourself up. Though in that situation at least you don’t have to worry about their brain because it’s probably already messed up, doing something so idiotic.
Normal use, it seems modern teflon is fine. Usually the concern seems to be more about the environmental impact or factory conditions than impact to those using them as cookware.