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So you would trade Teflon for a known carcinogen that’s linked to lung cancer? Also it’s more work to maintain a cast iron pan, you can’t exactly throw it into a dishwasher.


Cast iron pans don't have a link to lung cancer.

Unless you count the workers in the foundry that is making them.


Heating vegetable oil up so it turns into a polymer creates carcinogens. Why cast iron pans have a non stick surface.


Had to look it up. That claim is truish. However it is only a risk while seasoning and if you are inhaling the fumes.

Needless to say, don't do that and cast iron presents no risks.

At the end of the day, a really silly reason to swear off cast iron.


I have never spent more than 90 seconds cleaning our large cast iron pan. And that's only if it's really egged up. Whatever convenience we're talking about, it's trivial.




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