(article, Culinate staff)
As easy as it is to cook with, we've known about the sketch factor of nonstick coatings for years now — in a word, they're toxic. Recently the Ethicurean posted a run-down of all the reasons why, yet again, we shouldn't use Teflon-coated pans. Want a little alphabet soup? The baddie chemical in the stuff goes by the acronym PFOA.