Nancy Young wrote:
>
> Just in the event anyone cares, on tonight's 20/20 they have a piece
> on cooking in teflon pans.
>
> And while I'm at it, the current Christmas issue of Consumer Reports
> covers a number of kitchen appliances.
>
> This public service announcement has been brought to you by:
>
> nancy

According to the announcement, Dupont has known about this for many
years. They claim that the Teflon can never get hot enough in normal
use, which has been proved as being wrong.