How It's Made: Non-Stick Cookware

[@Innov8orRepair]

I also pour frozen vegetables into my pans from 4 feet above so as not to make a mess while cooking.

[@wheredaboof6492]

Shoutout to the narrator listened to this man growing up and im happy to see him still around.

[@brett4264]

Best narrator ever!

[@helmutkruger1192]

Best than David attenborough

[@josephbennett3482]

His name is Brooks Moore.

[@davidannett3322]

one of my top fav narrators!

[@kaleblicon4930]

@@brett4264 ong he low key has a relaxing voice

[@ramskin7756]

im so happy this series is on KZbin, i have a lot of good memories with this show when i used to watch it at night with the lights off :>

[@manuelg4867]

dicks out for Harambe!

[@MyYouTubeAccount2025]

Same here

[@mingmingandmikki]

It’s fun to see an episode about a weapon manufacturer like this.

[@vramronald]

glad to see ppl aware

[@erickwardwell962]

Wtf?

[@ridiculusexpecto2453]

I miss watching this before i go to school. From Philippines. The voice relax me

[@milkman05]

I had that same set. Best pans I ever had. Still have 2 left over after 15 years. I would love to find it again

[@jdubdoubleu]

Can't imagine all the toxic fumes you've been breathing in. You feel ok 🤒

[@thl205]

You should change out your nonstick pans way more regularly 😬

[@SpiceCh]

@@jdubdoubleu Some of us don't leave our pans unattended on a stove set to max...

[@menlynbautista2131]

Been a fan since grade school days. It's still gold!

[@amrudn4336]

Still my favourite discovery series since 2006

[@lapulapuii6844]

The only voice I heard in “How it’s made” TV program for so long!! COOL!!

[@jacklarson6281]

funny how they avoided saying Teflon throughout the whole episode

[@andrewlamprecht5717]

I have finally learned the answer to the age old paradox: if teflon is non-stick, how do they get it to stick to the pan?

[@I_WANT_MY_SLAW]

Sodium hydroxide

[@ContraVsGigi]

@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW And the primer.

[@Bruce_Quin]

science

[@hg1986]

To anyone watching this - please please don't fall for some kitchen myths like "you must season non stick pans before use" or "use baking powder and vinegar to deep clean the residual chemicals". It does absolutely nothing to help your life. Just wipe with kitchen towels and oil a few times and you're good.

[@Floris82]

Correct, but even better, just season a carbon steel pan a live a healthy life without any chemical substance.

[@hodge12009]

@@Floris82 Newsflash: everything is made of chemicals...water is a chemical, good luck living a healthy life without that 🤣

[@troll2637]

@@hodge12009 good point.

[@helmutkruger1192]

You need to wash with soap water any cookware for the first time you use it

[@jam9297]

Yeah, to live the healthiest life possible, stay far away from anything non-stick. Look up documentaries about Teflon and pfoa/pfos, that crap is so toxic and it gets into your food. Use cast iron, season it with cooking oil and you're good. Just because it's difficult to live without harmful synthetic chemicals doesn't mean you shouldn't try your hardest not to. The mentality of "oh well, can't do anything about it, if you can't beat em join em" is just lazy.

[@sigrid714]

4:33 Someone tell All-Clad they need to start using this. I bought 2 pans from All-Clad last Christmas and they both have non-centered badly aligned handles. For pans costing hundreds of dollars you guys can't use an alignment device or are you just eyeballing it?

[@tioswift3676]

Hold on someone from All Clad will be here soon to take care of you. Please hold.

[@redred7674]

*is actually on hold for a year

[@latenighter1965]

Depends on the company that makes the "nonstick" pan, because some of them everything still gets stuck, or the coating actually peels off during cooking, I've had that happen, completely ruined an entire meal.

[@techmouse.]

It completely ruins your health too. You're ingesting teflon long before it starts to peel. That's why you're supposed to replace them at least once a year. Or just get stainless steel.

[@joaopizzolato9840]

This brand (Tramontina) build great cookware, and i know because we bought 20 years ago some stainless steel set, and we still use

[@taurussun2228]

Dollar General Brand.

[@frankjohnson8750]

I agree 100% Teflon pans suck balls! I gave up on them pretty quickly. I use REAL cast iron, the older, the better. It takes some knowledge and a little work to keep them in tip top shape but its well worth the effort 👌 😉 ☺

[@GamingWO-]

@@frankjohnson8750 and cast iron doesn’t cause cancer, added bonus

[@acey850]

I used to watch this show in high school. When I got home, I prepared a rice meal and eat while watching cable tv. Oh how time flies.

[@Jack-ot1zq]

Remember when brooks wasn’t the narrator? Ya I try to forget too

[@Duraltia]

IMHO the weirdest thing about cooking in a PTFE lined Pan is that you're essentially cooking on a sheet of plastic.

[@superglue237]

Which we all know is carcinogenic. Non stick pans are evil.

[@Duraltia]

@@superglue237 Technically yes, but practically no. By the time you've managed to turn the PTFE carcinogenic from heating it too much your food has long since had its 2nd death and is already waiting in line for reincarnation.

[@superglue237]

@@Duraltia ah I see. I didn’t know that thanks. I really hope it’s true

[@CT-if2tt]

Yep. But it's "safe and effective," the experts tell us so!!

[@SpiceCh]

@@CT-if2tt Everything is dangerous if you're completely irresponsible. Play around with a blender and you'll find that it's a dangerous kitchen appliance much like leaving your non-stick pan unattended on a gas-stove-turned-campfire for 30 minutes. Your gas stove itself can explode if you misuse it too, which should be of much greater concern to you than a slight bit of toxic smoke. While we're at it, don't put plastic in your oven, and don't set your microwave oven to max for an hour to reheat frozen bread. Don't play with knives or scissors, and unplug electrical appliances before poking around in them. But yeah, non-stick pans are dangerous and a conspiracy or whatever.

[@Major00Tom]

0:44 But the nonstick surface will stick to your body forever. It already did.

[@joaopizzolato9840]

Exactly, stick only in pans and blood

[@getlosttoday4045]

Best channel ever!

[@collieee2957]

Crazy how intelligent this process is and yet non stick pans can’t use something non toxic

[@vincinuge]

try ceramic coated ones instead

[@tazboy1934]

​@@vincinuge some lead

[@ballistic350]

Damn these guys work dangerously to feed us ..props even i can't do it.. def not in a foundry

[@mattypants]

New episodes AND the same narrator? Life. Is. Good.

[@Teanageswitchquean]

Well, we may have permanently poisoned rain water, but at least my johnny cakes won’t stick to my pan.

[@extropian314]

"Now, clean-up should go smoothly" -- except around the rivets in the pan and lid, where moisture and food collects.

[@politicsuncensored5617]

Amazing fun in watching this older series. Shalom

[@blacknoir2404]

0:37 lol no. its called Polytetrafluoroethylene and sounds like Poly-tetra-fluoro-ethylene

[@tride.design]

Teflon - the worst and most common micro-plastic that is widely used in cooking as "non-stick coating" x)

[@user-my1ku9hi9u]

Don't look into per and poly fluorinated substances and Teflon, it will make you cry! No plastic but you will find out ;)

[@gdb86cs]

Watch the documentary on Netlfix about that stuff. Eye opener.

[@EverClayGuy]

Orang yang gagal akan nampak kesusahan pada setiap peluang, manakala orang yang optimis akan nampak peluang dalam setiap kesusahan

[@envigraphy]

Who would've thought the original form of your frying pan is a solid metal block the size of a building

[@Baka_Mop]

Cast iron skillets will always be the GOAT

[@WhoElseButZane]

One thing I always wondered, they need all these complicated machines to make stuff, but how do they make the machines???

[@dgillies5420]

@Wayne Flanigan Yeah, most of these custom-factory machine parts are likely made on lathes and milling machines.

[@SuperDeinVadda]

The machines are painstakingly hand made. Takes alot of planning and machining to do. Hundreds of people, a few dozen different companies and alot of time come together to make such machines.

[@commoncommentatingcommento8683]

Other complicated machines

[@Layput]

There are lathing machines that specialize in manufacturing these parts

[@baylinkdashyt]

HIM has actually done a few pieces on that topic.

[@NewEnglandPatriotsfan]

Heck yes!! Deep frying anything is Heaven on earth

[@Munden]

Can we do asbestos next? Maybe radium painted watch hands?

[@jimurrata6785]

Luminol is used to make bodily fluids glow for examination. You are thinking of radium.

[@nobodyspecial4702]

Ah, asbestos. The misunderstood wonder invention. Hazardous if inhaled as a fine particulate, such as one would get if it was used to make lightweight, sound insulating ceiling tiles. Perfectly harmless and fireproof when used as a solid tile product. If only politicians listened better we wouldn't have high rise apartment fires claiming dozens of lives because any use of asbestos is banned and all existing asbestos must be removed at great expense, even if it's harmless.

[@acidset]

@@nobodyspecial4702 you understand asbestos gets released into the surrounding air and soil/waterways when used for tiles and plumbing right? it's not just a huge misunderstanding or perfectly harmless as you claim

[@suamme1]

That was my favorite part... not even mentioning the toxic properties (and the reality that most of those workers probably already have huge doses) on a channel with 'science' in it's name. 🤔

[@owenconenna7532]

1:09 bro the slabs look like han solo lmao

[@MiniMii550]

I like the way the writers just kept dancing around the name Teflon because it's a trademark using phrases like "nonstick substance"

[@brokenhookgames7006]

Who else loves this to sleep to or just background noise while doing stuff 🤣

[@JohnVance]

“Hidden Killers of the 21st Century Home”

[@politicsuncensored5617]

List one story about someone dying from using non-stick coating pans. There are none. Shalom

[@teletherapy45]

Recyclers Containers and non stick pots and pans are helpful as like Goodwill a Good Idea.

[@mhgjewel]

heres a good one! do a show on how drafting plastic templates are made

[@darrensim295]

Had to break out the thesaurus to avoid saying "Make the non-stick coating stick to the pan"

[@LoBoCoPonYouT]

Great, I'm sure that inside coating won't release anything "toxic" after years of use.?

[@WungoBungo]

Look up The Devil We Know BBC documentary. Teflon has poisoned the entire world

[@nobodyspecial4702]

@@WungoBungo Oddly enough, modern Teflon doesn't use PFOA which was the compound that health agencies complained about. Sure, if you like your food superheated over 500 degrees, all bets on food safety are off, but nobody eats charcoal so that's not a real problem.

[@rosemcommm]

@@nobodyspecial4702 It's still uses PFAS. Just not PFOA.

[@charlessawyer836]

@@nobodyspecial4702 how does water evaporate when the temperature is well below boiling? It is able to do this because certain molecules are boiling. Temperature is a measure of the averge speed the molecules are moving. Some are slower then others some are faster. The very fastest ones can escape and become a gas even while the average temperature is under boiling. Let’s say the pan needs to be heated to over 500 to get seepage into the food which could be a serious problem in the moment. Even when the pain is at 100 degrees, some molecules are going just fast enough to be at 500 or over. Meaning they can seep into your food. While this might be a tiny amount it builds up. PFAS are called forever chemicals because they can’t be broken down due to strong molecular structures. Meaning that these chemicals slowly build up in your body. Due to pollution of water ways, air and products, we all already have it in our body’s but that’s a different story. So even tho your pot or pan might only seep a tiny tiny amount into your food daily. Over time it will add up and that is where the problem lies and that’s where these modern marketing claims are misleading and dangerous.

[@hakimzah]

3:57 how come the spray did not touch the edge (white lining)?

[@RyuAzuku]

Brooks T Moore is the greatest narrator of all time

[@moza260]

is that called a teflon material?

[@latriece5952]

The insides wipe the left over food two of each a set under the cooking burner rack price itself yeah should grip the burners and the rack easy to cool and wipe clean and the well done for plate

[@Keegs-]

I love the taste of PFAS

[@davidcurry4433]

Does punching the holes not damage the coating, tefal have lots of issues of coating failures around punched hole areas

[@ronaldovaldez7841]

Is non stick spray paint in the pan is a dangerous our health?

[@wtfsherlock5447]

that was before. They completely wiped out PFOA chemicals from the coating back in 2013

[@stevethea5250]

3:45 HOW DOES THE EDGES NOT PAINT I ALWAYS WONDER .

[@DavidMartin-qn2bf]

I was looking for this question! Lol I want to know as well!

[@rosekreuze]

it's so satisfrying to watch! 😍

[@CartoonPhreak]

Frying pans are also useful as attack weapons by characters (including Rapunzel)

[@J_PIK]

The profit margin on these thin sheets of aluminum is insane.

[@BornIn1500]

Those huge machines are very expensive.

[@frankjohnson8750]

Meh. Cast iron is, by far, the best choice most of the time. Definitely my favorite cookware. 😉😄👍

[@Craxin01]

They are good, unless you're old, have poor musculature, or a bad back. Lifting a 9-inch cast iron skillet is not exactly easy. Plus, they require a lot of maintenance. Non-stick isn't good for you, at all, but most of us can't do weightlifting every day to cook.

[@frankjohnson8750]

@@Craxin01 Well right now I'm 60, have had a few of my pans 40ish years. The 12" pan is a might heavy but I go to the gym to workout regularly, funny you bring up the point. Are you somehow watching me? 🤔😳 🤣 Here's to hoping I stay in good enough shape for my cast iron 😉😁 What you said about proper use and properly taking care of my cast iron is absolutely true. I pay homage to the cooking Gods that way 🙂 Weightlifting, as you say, is awesome 👌 Also, drastically changed the way I eat. I feel great again. I restarted back at the beginning of April. Dropped 29 lbs, back to 209 and from a nearly 40" waist to 36" again 🙂 I was out shopping for, and got thiiiiiis close 🤏 to buying my first pair of 40" shorts when I got mad at me and decided, NO! Eff that! I'm getting back in shape. I felt like i was slowly melting into the grave for too long also. Really feel SO much better now, its really amazing 👏 😍. Maybe you should try it...🤷 I have an old ACL & meniscus injury (left knee) I had to slowly work through but even that knee works and feels TONS better. Much stronger core and the back pain is GONE again. I highly recommend Weightlifting 👌! "I cant" never did anything 😉 Thowing barbells & dumbells around, as well as tearing up various machines works wonders 😃

[@tazboy1934]

Titanium pan

[@13thravenpurple94]

Great work Thank youu

[@dds5450]

02:16 How does the machine make the shape ?

[@clarencegreen3071]

The round aluminum blank (disk) is placed over a form that is shaped like an upside-down bowl. The part that comes down has a hollowed-out center (that you cannot see in the video) that matches the desired outside surface of the pan. The big machine is a press that forces the aluminum disk down around the lower part, the upside-down bowl shape, to form the body of the pan.

[@Diviance]

I think my favorite part about teflon is that the company who started marketing it knew, before they ever started marketing it or producing anything with it, that it was very harmful to humans. But they did it anyway.

[@woundedmonk1884]

murica

[@mitchellj0887]

Yep.. DuPont and 3m

[@ZebraMetal]

And now apparently it basically is everywhere

[@joshcantrell8397]

Same chemist was also responsible for leaded gasoline I believe as well and CFC’s

[@sebastianriz4703]

Whata facinating to me is, it seems lile the non-stick chemicals are super dangerous and should be avoided at all costs but I have never once seen anyone get sick or get cancer from using these kinds of things. No news stories. No family members. No one else I know of, no matter how young or old. It makes me wonder exactly how dangerous microplastics and stuff like this is.

[@uriituw]

How can the nonstick coating stick to the pan?

[@minyuan86]

I guess my carbon steel skillet... is just Stamp the blanks, rivet the handles and package for sale

[@natescott-id2we]

Rivet pan handle over way a thing?

[@manuelg4867]

yummmm PFAS in my food and cookware!

[@TreDogOfficial]

Why are birds not supposed to live in a home with Teflon cooking pans on a hot stove? Does that mean there is toxicity that humans can't detect? Like a canary in a coal mine?

[@albertocordova2094]

The chemicals released from Nonstick pans after cooking can kill birds and cause health problems for humans.

[@joermnyc]

Quick searched it: “While PTFE is stable and nontoxic at lower temperatures, it begins to deteriorate after the temperature of cookware reaches about 260 °C (500 °F), and decomposes above 350 °C (662 °F). Over 400 °C (752 °F) pyrolysis occurs and more decomposition becomes significantly more rapid. The main decomposition products are tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) and difluorocarbene radicals (RCF2). The degradation by-products can be lethal to birds, and can cause flu-like symptoms in humans: polymer fume fever. Meat is usually fried between 204 and 232 °C (399 and 450 °F), and most oils start to smoke before a temperature of 260 °C (500 °F) is reached, but there are at least two cooking oils (refined safflower oil at 265 °C (509 °F) and avocado oil at 271 °C (520 °F)) that have a higher smoke point. However these cases of polymer fume fever were mostly present in people who had cooked at 390 °C (734 °F) for at least 4 hours.

[@joostk]

@@joermnyc good one. Users should use these Teflon coated pans as intended. Just focus on cooking and don't let it cook dry.

[@Lerrae1908]

@@joermnyc Thank you for quoting this - and to add on, these same toxic compounds in the air can also make other small animals sick. Rodents, amphibians, and some reptiles are sensitive enough that they can also succumb. Basically, if you have exotic or delicate pets, don't use non-stick cookware to be the most safe, or follow usage guidelines strictly to reduce the chance of dangerous exposure. Always keep pets far from your cooking areas!

[@nobodyspecial4702]

@@Lerrae1908 Or, you know, don't run your oven at 500 degrees. That's always a simpler solution.

[@gianfrancomussi6063]

il rivestivento antiaderente in Teflon dura poco perchè lo spessore è di soli 5 micron. Per ottenere un buon risultato bisogna fare uno strato di 50 micron.

[@ultrajd]

I think I had a set like that in college.

[@yummyherbicide7296]

Step 1, you buy something else that can be seasoned because you know damn well someone is gonna use metal on it anyway so might as well get one you can restore yourself

[@HDWorkers1]

too good

[@chrisregan7884]

Why us there leftover aluminum?

[@Touk1-u7i]

Still waiting the episode How it's Made: baby

[@adventuremanintheclouds8968]

And that's one of the many ways we are poisoned on a daily basis.

[@jimmyneutron9144]

yes

[@vichetdragoncars3186]

Very nice

[@Dale-o6q]

Not as though its made the same way now but black water is a must watch film, glad its done different now no thanks to dupont

[@Griffin050A1t]

Smol depressing atm, this makes it better

[@agentham]

Got this recommended after watching the PFAS episode of Last Week Tonight. Big oof.

[@yashwin999]

0:46 Intro 1:55 Making Aluminium Sheet 2:48 punching and coating 3:42 Finishing

[@joermnyc]

At low temperatures (under 260C/500F) this coating is fine, but if you use high smoke point oils (refined safflower and avocado) you can go past 260C before they begin to smoke, at which point the coating begins breaking down. Even at lower temperatures the coating is slowly degrading over time and these pans only last a few years before they lose enough of it to start sticking to foods. Best alternative is a ceramic coated pan (Greenpan is one option), only thing is you must be careful with it, no metal tools, hand washing only and don’t fry with olive oil (it burns too quickly).

[@sura1274]

What would happen if you use a metal spoon, for example.

[@FJB2020]

375 is the max you should take these pans...

[@helmutkruger1192]

Fahrenheit should go

[@joermnyc]

@@sura1274 scratch the coating, at least a little, which over time can lead to a chip off this coming off in the good you’re cooking.

[@1Rab]

I wish all pan handles were riveted. The screws keep popping out on mine.

[@aplutypus7599]

Is this nonstick teflon?

[@jeffsimpson1421]

Fun fact DuPont basically gave every living being on the planet forever chemicals 🤷‍♂️

[@mattt198654321]

Yeah but think about how much time we've saved from washing dishes! Science!

[@christinahavel4081]

Watch this for sleep lol.

[@soggycracker5934]

The best part about non-stick cookware, is eating the coating every time you cook in it! Oh OH! And the production is very not good for the environment! It's so amazing!

[@one007guy]

Yum! 🤣

[@soggycracker5934]

@@one007guy That fuckin jawline is yum..!

[@birdn4t0r7]

don't forget that the breakdown of the coating can make you sick and kill your pets!!!

[@soggycracker5934]

@@birdn4t0r7 Just the aluminum can do that part...

[@weshouldsaveourselves6780]

You don't actually eat the coating right? It wouldn't pass safety regulations

[@ICPadict36]

funny, food still gets stuck on them lol

[@OctaApe]

How its made : Power Showers

[@kentkoontz9305]

That's Some Beautiful Cookware...

[@JimmyGeorge1]

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

[@thebigdawg61]

They skipped the step where the pans went from grey to burgundy for the final scene.

[@sysierius]

I would rather use ceramic nonstick pans. Those aren't toxic

[@maemilev]

*Forever chemicals!*

[@2stepsaway820]

What's Aluminum? We don't have that here in the UK.

[@captainjohn787]

Non stick? It's non-stick alright. The non-stick coating eventually winds up as part of the meal - teflon plat d'accompagnement. Honest! I saw it on the menu at a French restaurant.

[@eugenenoah6639]

So that was pure aluminium pan without mixing with other metals.

[@kartolonimbus]

Never use metal spoon on nonstik fry pan

[@aarshpatel2000]

Alternative title how PFTA's were introduced to humanity.

[@tron3entertainment]

Love, How it's Mayo'd.

[@Fabio-ol2ow]

Tramontina sangue brasileiro 👍😁🇧🇷

[@scottstewart5784]

Ima buy a whole bunch of these pans - I heard something about a pandemic.

[@markhicks9864]

yes the non stick lasts about 2 months and all stick breaks loose, lol.

[@izicspam8361]

I have never seen this before.

[@CarryPotter007]

wait isnt this channel something I would've watched 12 years ago as a kid? wth the world is small lol

[@josephbennett3482]

How It's Made has been in production for a very long time and Brooks Moore is still the voiceover person for the United States show , in Canada where it's originally from it is someone different that does the voiceover.

[@jaya9753]

Because eating something cooked on a Chemical left over from refrigeration byproducts seems smart....

[@osyisr6361]

PTFE is inert under 600f.

[@jaya9753]

@@osyisr6361 inert doesn't mean biologically safe.