Nancy Young > wrote:
>I do think I have a teflon pan, it was one of a set of two. The
>smaller one gave off awful fumes when bananas with brown sugar
>was cooked in it. I tossed it and bought an All Clad to replace
>it. Cost a bundle, but I don't worry about the surface with metal
>untensils. I should look up what the nonstick coating is made of.

Teflon. Applied using a 2-step process to make it stick
to the pan better, and to make it bumpy so it sticks to
the food less, than a flat coating of Teflon. But it's
still teflon.

I still won't use metal utensils in mine.

And the only time I ever got a teflon pan hot enough to
react with anything, the coating melted and I threw it out.

--Blair
"It wasn't my fault."