Stop cooking with teflon IMMEDIATELY – this is why you need to switch to cast iron
To create sustainable wellness, make sure you make wise food choices and prepare many of your meals at home.
Basically, what you use for cooking has some impacts. So you can add an extra health behavior to your repertoire by consciously selecting your cooking utensils. Do health-conscious cooks have choices that make sense for them?
While there is no one right answer to the question, you should choose a safe cookware that is not designed with too many chemical coatings to lower toxic levels.
Below are ways to stay safe:
1. Avoid non-stick pans
Regardless of whether you like Teflon or nonstick pans, avoid or discard them. Although non-stick coated pans are convenient, they are harmful because they release toxic fumes after high heat, which fills the air. After inhaling the fumes, flu-like symptoms are initiated in humans, while in pet birds the fumes become poisonous.
In addition, the chemicals used in the manufacture of non-stick coatings are linked to thyroid, fertility and cholesterol problems, so to be on the safe side, avoid Teflon in your kitchen.
2. Keep off plastic
If you are using plastic while cooking, you should stop it immediately. Although plastic food containers offer convenience, you should stop using them. Also, you should never use plastic to store food or hot food in a microwave.
The plastic containers you use have high chemicals that are not only hormone disrupting, but also leach into the food, especially when you heat the plastic in the microwave, making the food poisonous.
In addition, plastic is toxic to marine animals, and causes soil and water pollution. So, to reduce the effects, we should avoid using plastic.
3. Use glass
You should use grass for freezer or refrigerator storage, baking, heating food in the microwave, and transporting food. Besides being convenient and versatile, glass does not cause toxins to leach into food. In addition, glass can be recycled, easy to clean, inexpensive and environmentally friendly. Alternatively, you should use cast iron.
4. Use cast iron – Why you should switch to cast iron
1. The first and foremost reason is that it is safe!
2. Variety: Types of cast iron cookware include frying pans, Dutch ovens, grills, waffle irons, dosa pans, tavas, kadhai, crepe pans, woks, pots, etc. Basically, it can be used to make any kind of utensil.
3. Ideal for cooking: They are heavy, which prevents food from burning, help distribute heat evenly, and do not impart any flavor to food as normal iron containers do.
4. Iron Dose: We can get our regular dose of iron by cooking food in these utensils.
5. They are affordable and durable: No need to keep replacing them every six months. They will last forever!
Source:timesofindia.indiatimes.com, ehealthfeed.com
