If you're buying any cookware...

[macojoe]

I have a couple of cast iron pan's I love!!

My wife hates them and wants the teflon.

Fine by me as no one uses my pan's but me!! And I will put it up against any non stick out there, now they they are well seasoned.

[spence]

No Chef, I can't imagine working the omlette station with a stainless pan

But this is for the home. A little butter and some good heat and the omlette won't stick...at least it doesn't here...well, that often.

A few non-stick pans are nice, but the health stuff is somewhat disturbing. Sort of like not using plastic wrap in the micro etc...

-spence

[cheferson]

I wouldnt even worry about teflon. Think off all the other crap in food we eat -pesticides, gm plants(gm animals soon too , looks like), all kinds of nasty perservatives, hormones, food dyes, mercury , pcbs. Cracks me up in the grocery store seeing the milf in line in front of me spending all this dough on Organic and Natural food, then soon as she gets out the store.. lights up a cig.

[chris L]

but she still is a milf

[Nebe]

teflon is fine as long as you dont over heat it. This is just my humble observations as someone who works with heat in the thousands of degrees as opposed to hundreds of degrees. When you get it up to about 1500 it actually melts like butter. . Thats when its bad because it starts to de-gas, but to cook with it, you should be fine..