What is the safest cookware to use?

Gigi Lee Chang, CEO of Healthy Child Healthy World, shares advice for parents on which types of cookware are the safest to use when cooking for your family
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What is the safest cookware to use?

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When thinking about cookware, the most important thing is to avoid Teflon, which is used for most non-stick cookware. Teflon is made from an ingredient called PSTE, which is a hazardous and toxic chemical and of gases when it's heated. Best alternative would be to use glass. So pirax and those baking dishes are also very good or stainless steel. Another great alternative is cast iron and there are many great cast iron options that are available at very reasonable prices. And not all non-stick is necessarily bad. It's just important when you are looking at the ingredients to make sure that, whatever the way it is treated, to be non-stick, is not from a toxic chemical such as Teflon.

Gigi Lee Chang, CEO of Healthy Child Healthy World, shares advice for parents on which types of cookware are the safest to use when cooking for your family

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Gigi Lee Chang

Former CEO of Healthy Child Healthy World

Gigi Lee Chang is the CEO of Healthy Child Healthy World, a national non-profit organization which empowers parents to protect their children from harmful chemicals. She is a frequent speaker on various topics, including children’s health, food and nutrition, as well as socially conscious/sustainable business practices and entrepreneurship and was awarded “Brand Innovator 2008” and “2010” by Brand Packaging. In addition, Gigi has been featured in over 250 national and regional media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, MORE magazine, Yogi Times, KIWI Magazine, Cookie, Parenting, OK! Weekly, Celebrity Baby Blog, TODAY Show, Newsweek and Time Out New York Kids. Gigi is also the Founder of Plum Organics and on the advisory boards of Environmental Media Association (EMA), Pregnancy Awareness Month (PAM), International Baby Planners Association (IBPA) as well as Friends of Baby Buggy.

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Transcription: 
When thinking about cookware, the most important thing is to avoid Teflon, which is used for most non-stick cookware. Teflon is made from an ingredient called PSTE, which is a hazardous and toxic chemical and of gases when it's heated. Best alternative would be to use glass. So pirax and those baking dishes are also very good or stainless steel. Another great alternative is cast iron and there are many great cast iron options that are available at very reasonable prices. And not all non-stick is necessarily bad. It's just important when you are looking at the ingredients to make sure that, whatever the way it is treated, to be non-stick, is not from a toxic chemical such as Teflon.