You must be REALLY overheating it for it to outgas anything. Doesn't need
to be glowing red inside to cook you know grin.


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"Mike Pearce" wrote in message
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"Dave" wrote:

(we can't use coated
cookware - it kills things in our home we want to keep alive).


OK, I can't let this pass without asking. What is it that coated (I
assume
you mean non-stick coatings) kills?


When teflon-type coatings are overheated, they produce a gas that can kill
small animals, notably birds, which (canary in a coal mine) are very
susceptible to that sort of thing.