A friend of mine
and colleague at the time, comes into work one morning about 15 years
back, and tells me about all the excitement from the night before. My
friend is a bit shy and tries to keep off the radar as much as possible,
you know the type, but the previous night, this had been completely
impossible when all the firetrucks and the police cars arrived at her
house and blocked every access and the street…

You see, right
around supper time, after having cooked a wonderful dinner, just when
they were about ready to eat, they found both of their pet birds, dead
in their cage! A feeling of panick got a hold of them and they did what
every safety conscious individual would do in the same situation, and
called the city to report this, just in case it was related to a gas
leak!

Within minutes,
they were surrounded and asked to evacuate their house. A thorough
searched went on for some time before they were allowed to return
inside. No gas leak was found and no reason was provided for the dual
death of the beloved pet birds…

Fast forward eight
or nine years and I am reading a report on the toxic gases emitted by
the Teflon coating in non-stick frying pans when they are heated up to a
certain degree. Although the emissions cannot be detected by our noses,
they contain at least 4 gases that are extremely toxic. One of them “PFIB, is a chemical warfare agent 10 times more toxic than phosgene (COCl2, a chemical warfare agent used during World Wars I and II)”
1 The Environmental Working Group has written a paper titled: Canaries
in the kitchen: Teflon offgas studies. You can read this report by
clicking here… 

What this report
brings forth are the various studies showing how over time and with
being exposed to high heat, the surface of Teflon breaks down and
releases toxic gases that are extremely bad for you. They are too
subtle for our noses to pick up on them, but they are deadly enough to
kill birds! Was this what happened to my friend’s birds? Who knows?

Fast forward yet
five more years and we have an alternative! I don’t know about you but I
really hate it when my food sticks to the pan, especially eggs! If you
like all the convenience of non-stick pans without the health hazards of
Teflon, you need to take a look at the OrGreenic Frying pan. Now, I would love to tell you that it comes in multiple sizes, the video certainly looks promising but I only know of the 10″ pan. You can check it out on this website to see all it can do. Done are the days when you have to baby the pan with plastic cooking utensils. This pan is made to last!

Here’s something you can take to the bank… last October, our coach Carolyne posted on our Facebook
something about the OrGreenic pan. My mother, who is one of our biggest
supporters, asked where she could get one. We told her that it was
available at Showcase (there’s one at the St-Laurent Shopping Centre)
where she promptly got one for herself. When I called her tonight I
asked if she still liked it and if it was living up to all its
promises… she simply said that she uses it everyday and couldn’t
imagine life without it! That’s proof for you!