I am sitting on a couch that is coated with this goop. At least I am strongly suspicious of it, although not because anybody in my family has thyroid disease. I am suspicious because I remember many years ago (too many to name...you don't really want to know how old my couch is) I remember paying about 75 bucks extra for the couch and loveseat we bought to be treated to make them stain resistant. At the time, of course, it seemed like a decent idea. We wanted to protect our investment.
Now that it's time to buy a new couch I am much more inclined to lean the other direction and look for natural fibers and materials. It may be a bit of an overreaction but I am sure that I have spent a lot of time snuggled down under a blanket just like I am right now: 6 inches from the fabric surface, likely coated with PFOA.
It's a little icky to think about I must say.
Yuck is right. At least my couch is only covered with food and baby snot. So this stuff is OK to cook with though?
ReplyDeleteI think I've read of possible problems if your cookware gets too hot. I've found that treating a "regular" skillet properly allows me to easily clean just about anything out of it in a jiffy, so personally I avoid using nonstick cookware.
ReplyDeleteOthers in my family feel like the ease of nonstick coatings is worth the admittedly poorly-defined risk.