Non-stick Teflon frying pan (Tefal)
Sartén antiadherente de teflón (Tefal)
- Date
- 1954-1956 · confidence high
- Place
- Sarcelles and Rumilly, France
- Credited to
- Marc Grégoire and his wife Colette (founders of Tefal); PTFE discovered by Roy Plunkett (DuPont, 1938)
- People
- 👤 Marc Grégoire1906–1996
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A kitchen utensil coated with polytetrafluoroethylene to which food does not stick. It brought a fluoropolymer from the Manhattan Project into every kitchen.
What it led to
- Low-fat cooking and easy-to-clean utensils
- Concern over PFAS, or forever chemicals, and their regulation
- Industrial non-stick coatings
Built on
- Aluminium1825
- Teflon (PTFE)1938
- PTFE (Teflon)
Made possible
- non-stick coatings
- modern kitchen utensils