Thanks for sharing!
Pam

Thanks for the info here. Those papadums from your pan, look nice! I used to do do exactly that, as me and the kids are crazy about our papadums and chutney or dips in general. IF I make a curry, we’d have to microwave 1 at a time and sometimes fry them like mum used too or lightly like you are doing there.
Until, we found the Papadum Express microwave tray and now it’s 6 at a time sometimes even 8. We have no fat or oil either as we are not fond of that taste. In the papadum express tray, we get to add many assorted types like chilli, pepper or even lime all at the same time. huge huge time saverrrr. I real like the lime ones yummyyyy. getting hungry now. haha
We pour the curry rice or salady salsa type and eat eat eat … watch movie etc. it takes only 1 minute or two.

Thanks for sharing!
Pam

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your detailed analysis. We’re sure it will be beneficial to a lot of viewers.

Teflon can produce fumes that can be toxic to birds if heated to the point where they start to smoke. Otherwise there aren’t any consistently proven health effects to using teflon. The thing is that one study which shows a link is refuted by other studies of the same compound which show no link. The study that people have been talking about is flawed in a couple of ways. First off – they didn’t actually measure the TSH levels in the blood of the study members. They asked the people if they had a thyroid disease or if they have ever been on medication for it. Since self reporting is problematic on many levels (people often don’t understand what thy are being asked or what medications they are on or even what diagnoses they have been given) that’s a problem area of the study.

So what they showed was that there is a correlation between people with a certain level of chemical in their blood and a reporting of thyroid disease – not that actually existence of disease.

Other studies which measured thyroid levels directly did not show this same correlation.

Does this mean that the first study might not be true? No. That’s not how science works. However, the preponderance of evidence indicates that there is no link between teflon usage and thyroid disease

Also, it’s not like cast iron is necessarily safer. Elevated levels of iron intake can be bad for men (that’s why you don’t find it in male vitamin supplements) and can dangerously exacerbate men suffering from Hughes Syndrome (thick blood disease).

I’m not saying that to say you shouldn’t use cast iron – only to point out that if you look hard enough everything ends up being dangerous for someone.