Time to get serious ...
... if you say you support USA manufacturing, health and sustainability, you need to know the truth behind the slick cookware you're considering. These are Dark Waters indeed.
From expensive celebrity pans with synthetic nonstick coatings to cheap supermarket disposables, it's a minefield for anyone who believes the marketing pitches from importers and big polluting corporates.
Industry insiders have known about it for years, but still a lot of the public doesn't know how toxic these chemicals are. They are still cooking their food with them in most homes in the Western world.....and DuPont and their many competitors are still allowed to produce and sell them. Hard to believe, unless you know this is similar to the cigarette industry. It is well known these products damage health, but they are still sanctioned by the authorities. There’s just too much money involved.
We are so grateful this toxic industry is finally getting the Hollywood star treatment, with the newly launched movie ‘Dark Waters’, starring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway. After a decade of warnings from scientists, this might be the only way to get the message out to most of the public.
We hope this will be the beginning of a movement against the ‘polluters for profit’. They won’t change anything while there’s still so much revenue involved, so the only way is for informed consumers to vote with their wallets for ONLY healthy and sustainable local cookware.
But what to do, if you want non-stick, and non-toxic?
Iron cookware has been non-stick and non-toxic since the dawn of the iron age, over 3000 years ago when hand wrought iron became the stnadard. Around cheaper cast iron became more popular. Everyone just knew these pans became naturally non-stick from oils and fats, until the nonstick marketing machine came along and made most folks were encouraged to forget for 2 generations.
It’s the dawn of a new iron cookware age …
Hand wrought iron was rough and expensive in the end, and cast iron was heavy and rough, unless it was machined (and they were susceptible to cracking). Then an engineering development company patented a new method of making machine-wrought iron pans in 2015, which soon became widely acclaimed by chefs and experts for their new levels of performance.
Here is our complete non-toxic non-stick solution, on lighter iron pans patented by real mechanical engineers who cook, and made in the USA from clean US iron: EXCLUSIVE TO KICKSTARTER
The next big game-changer in iron cookware: Quenched™ seasoning
A world-first, Quenched™ seasoning involves heating each pan to a precise high temperature, then quickly dunking it in a chilled tank of one of the best oils for seasoning: rice bran oil. The end result is healthy oil instantly transformed (all over the pan) into a strong black layer of hard, inert, non-toxic, seasoning. This seals the whole pan from corrosion, and eliminates the necessity for further oven seasoning. You can do more stove top pre-seasoning, if you like, but the Quenched™ pan is ready to cook!
What is the engineering behind all the available cookware options?
Here’s our original blog post, written by our mechanical engineer and founder, Mark Henry: https://www.solidteknics.com/blog/dont-believe-us-about-dangers-of-nonstick-pans-weve-got-something-to-sell-believe-the-unsponsored-scientists
Before the movie Dark Waters was the documentary The Devil We Know
Before the Hollywood treatment of the subject arrives on the big screen as ‘Dark Waters’ in late November (dramatized, for sure, but expected to be excellent), here's the hard-hitting 2018 documentary that helped raise the public's awareness of the scandal: