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# But how do they make the teflon stick to whatever it's applied to?
Is it SCIENCE or black magic?
(, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 12:37, archived)
# I'm going with SCIENCE
I can't imagine they use dark chocolates
(, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 12:38, archived)
# Black magic.
The metal of the pan is scoured with sulphuric acid to make it rough. The teflon gets some purchase on that - but if you use metal rather than wooden spoons &c on a teflon pan, you'll scrape off the coating which, being non-stick, isn't all that well stuck.
(, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 12:39, archived)
# when I used to get teflon pieces in food I pretended it was black pepper
(, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 12:40, archived)
# Acts as a fibre substitute, too.
Super-clean colon on the way out...
(, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 12:41, archived)
# That sounds like SCIENCE rather than black magic though.
Unless alchemy is considered black magic.
(, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 12:41, archived)
# I get science and magic confused.
Damn my humanities education.
(, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 12:47, archived)
# you seem unusually well informed
i think you're trying to put us off the real teflon consipracy

ADMIT IT NOW
(, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 12:43, archived)
# *dons tinfoil hat*
*removes tinfoil hat*
*replaces it with teflon hat*


*sobs as teflon hat slides off head*
*takes consolation in the gracefulness of the slide*

6. ????
7. Profit
(, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 12:46, archived)