Most of us use non-stick pans for everyday cooking. What is the material used to make non-stick pans?

Most of us use non-stick pans for everyday cooking. It can be used to cook delicious food without getting stick to the pan. What is the material used to make non-stick pans? Explain why it is used.

Do you know about polymers? The word “polymer” can be broken down into “poly” (meaning “many” in Greek) and “mer” (meaning “unit”). A polymer is a chemical compound made from many small molecules called monomers bonded together in long repeating chains. Non-stick pans are coated with a layer of PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene), commonly referred to as Teflon. It is a fluorocarbon solid that consists of long chains of carbon and fluorine atoms. Carbon-carbon and carbon-fluorine bonds are some of the strongest single bonds in all of organic chemistry. And also it is highly inert and it has a high melting point. This means that PTFE doesn’t want to be in contact with other objects, so it doesn’t let anything stick to it.