Did you know you're not supposed to put non-stick pans

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In the dishwasher? Rules

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hug that what am i going to do, wash it by hand???

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Non-stick pans like latch onto soap too. So much trouble just to cook at home. Screw this, I'm eating out forever

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God who uses those?!

Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:19 pm

i do

but i dont have a dishwasher so its okay

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I dunno mine says dishwasher safe right on it.

Not that I have a dishwasher but that's what it says.

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Well, if you enjoy being slowly poisoned by your cookware, then by all means put it in the dishwasher

Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:23 pm

dezro your cookware company is trying to kill you D:

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the best is cast-iron skillets cuz you don't wash those, you heat them up real f'in hot and then just clean them with oil

of course you have to season them first :\

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This is why I eat my food tartar. No fuss or prep time needed

Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:30 pm

There are different non-stick technologies. Some are safe to use metal on and put in the dishwasher and some aren't.

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You don't put it in the dishwasher because it will start to remove the Teflon coating, you don't heat it past 400*f either because it will start to break down (chemically) and get into your food.

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and what if it isn't teflon

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THEN YOU'RE ALREADY DEAD

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If its not Teflon its something like Teflon so it could be worse or better depending on the conditions.

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just read the wikipedia article on teflon
this excerpt is amazing

Quote:

PTFE's resistance to van der Waals forces means that it is the only known surface to which a gecko cannot stick.

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OH HOLY CRAP

I'M GONNA GET LIKE A CRAPLOAD OF TEFLON PANS AND A HANDFUL OF GECKOS

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Dezro, mad with power, wrote:

WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW, REPTILES?

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DTZ Reunion Tour wrote:

just read the wikipedia article on teflon
this excerpt is amazing

Quote:

PTFE's resistance to van der Waals forces means that it is the only known surface to which a gecko cannot stick.

geckos can stick to cartilage?

because that is like 70 times more slippery than ice

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It's all van der Waals forces allan

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 5:45 am

I'm tempted to look up van der Waal. But I'm afraid it would ruin my initial conception of him being a Dutch general trying to reinitialise the Boer war with an army of geckos.

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van der Waals was a physicist who came up with a model for non-ideal systems

For example an ideal gas has particles of no extension in space and which do not interact. A van der Waals gas has particles which have a finite "size" (ie a vertical potential energy wall some radius from the particle: this makes them bounce off each other) and some attractive force ('van der Waals force') in a small region away from the particle. You can solve (i think??) the relevant equations of statistical mechanics for this gas which is pretty great! It is a pretty good approximation to a real gas.

Anyway a van der Waals force is just the attractive force between unbonded atoms or molecules. It's what makes solids not fall apart and geckos use van der Waals forces to stick to walls.

Anyway I think that's more interesting than the Boer war. More like the bore war amirite

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 7:34 am

that's neat :)

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more like bohrware

ten out of ten · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:03 am

god damned it i noticed some nicks in the teflon of my favorite frying pan and come to think of it merely three days before i noticed those nicks my roommate had washed it in the dish washer god damned i hate hate all that

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:30 am

That attractive force thing is terribly neat.

But I maintain that the Boer war would be fascinating if fought by geckos.

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i think it would just be really slow and probably there wouldn't be many casualties

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boars v. geckos imo

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but I thought the Boers lost? I don't see how geckos could kill a boar unless enough of them piled on to suffocate it.

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 12:57 pm

The geckos have tiny guns ldo