Need Teflon Spray Can for Home Cooking Pans/Pots

• For info on how non-stick coatings are made & applied, please see Thread 14968

A. There are in the market sprays that contains PTFE. Those sprays are used as a releaser in rubber molding. For the applications you mention it does not work well, the coatings onto the cookware must be cured at 400 °C (750 °F) and I suppose you don't have a oven for this temperature. You'd better buy a new frying pan.

A. The Teflon that is applied to cooking surfaces should be FDA approved. To properly apply this type of Teflon, the area must first be preheated (to release any residual oils) then sandblasted clean. Next the Teflon is sprayed onto the surface and baked in an oven that is approximately 800 °F. I think that the spray you have been writing about was a type of coating that was neither approved for cooking surfaces or for continuous use.

A. Hi, Margaret; Hi, Thomas.
I'm afraid that the answer is no, you cannot repair them that way, but you can find second opinions and good feedback in this thread, and the history of the formerly-available non-stick spray in Thread 10027. Good luck.

A. People have been known to say that the teflon spray had problems sticking to the original teflon and would eventually come off. It may have been recalled, for health reasons.
Many people have issues with cooking on teflon pans to begin with.

A. Application of real Teflon® / PTFE coatings is a multi-step industrial process, J.F., involving mechanical polishing of the surfaces, special etching, primers, high temperature fusion with proper exhaust and fume scavenging, etc. A bonded Teflon® coating is not something that you can just spray out of a can like paint.

The non-stick repair product you are referring to is discussed in detail in letter 10027, "NON-STICK COOKWARE SPRAY TO FIX POTS & PANS?", but it is not available anymore; and it was not actually teflon -- it was a proprietary mix of Butyl Cellosolve, P.M. Acetate, and Cellosolve Acetate solvents that were cured/baked to hardness.

No! No! No!
Not for Food Service!
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Hi Ed. We appreciate your effort to help, but I think that story is urban legend. The non-stick repair spray in question was never teflon in the first place, so it wasn't removed from shelves for that reason; and you can't apply teflon to pots and pans that way anyway, so there would not have been spray teflon for pots and pans; and sprayed teflon lubricants and sprayed teflon coatings for other purposes have remained available throughout this whole period .

My personal belief is that times changed, our society became much more risk-averse, chemically safety-conscious (maybe paranoid?) and litigation-oriented ... and it just became too risky to continue to market these kinds of oven-bake-able solvents for use on food-service products.

Regards,

A. I found this link at eKitchenGadgets.com that advertises a repair coating. I have never used it and am debating with myself over trying it. Or go to www.hometrendscatalog.com and look for product #109041.

I have not yet tried it and can't attest to its efficacy.

A. If anyone is interested, I found a Non-Stick Surface Repair Spray in the Harriet Carter gifts catalog. It is 5.98 a can. I have not tried it yet, so I don't know if it's any good.

Ed. note: Sorry, we struck through those links because eKitchenGadgets, hometrendscatalog, and Harriet Carter no longer carry that product. We previously removed links to Walter Drake and many others who no longer carry it either. Sorry, but we are quite confident that the product is no longer marketed in America.

A. Our experience is that if the coating (i.e., Teflon spray) goes on easily, it also comes off easily. Yes it is not a simple paint on application, and will become part of your diet. Have a professional shop redo your Teflon.

A. I was at one time looking to re-do my Teflon pans and did find something like you're looking for. All you do is spray it on outdoors and put in oven at a certain temperature (not sure of temperature) and it worked. So now I am also looking for the same product. Don't be afraid to do.

Hi, Martha. Thanks for the tip, but you will find that that spray is no longer available. You can see thread 10027 to follow the history as it went off the market.

Regards,

A. Hi, Don. I see teflon lubricants, of course .

But please DON'T EVEN THINK about spraying anything like that onto a food surface! It is not meant for that purpose! Lubricants (besides not sticking to the pan) may be highly poisonous. Quote from the vendor's data sheet: "DO NOT use this product in an attempt to repair or resurface any type of cooking equipment."

Regards,

A. Hi Sharon. Unfortunately I think you are going to come up empty as we have here for many years.

Regards,

A. Hello all this link Should be useful:

http://www.belray.com/news/non-toxic-food-grade-nsf-h1-registered-dry-ptfe-spray

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Thanks Tareq, but that stuff is for 'incidental contact', like spraying the bearings of a conveyor belt in a bakery despite some chance of a tiny amount somehow getting inadvertently transferred into the food. It is certainly not meant to be sprayed onto the cooking side of pots and pans.

Regards,

Ted Mooney, P.E. RET
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey

A. It was taken off the market. We used this product from Harriet Carter years ago. It never stayed on for long and would flake off, sometimes unnoticed in your food. It was determined to cause many digestive cancers and deemed unsafe by the FDA.

Also, teflon coated pans break down in high heats, also posing a cancer risk. I did a paper on this in college; the info can be googled, "cancer risk linked to teflon cookware." Stick with cast iron or for easy cleanup use stainless steel. Anything burnt on stainless steel can easily be removed by boiling soap and water in the dirty pan for 20 or so minutes.

A. Regarding:Food Grade Non Stick Re-Coating:
I am regular user of Non Stick Cooking/Baking Pans,
I foresee that the bake process auto paint (Matte Finish) may work for re-coating, after a complete preparation of surface needs re-coating.
Regards
Zain

  Thanks Abid. You may be right, but I would remind users in the USA that the FDA and NSF generally tell us what is acceptable and unacceptable to use on pots & pans ... and I'm not personally aware of auto paint being considered acceptable.

Regards,

A. Hi Darrel. You can't apply it yourself (it's an industrial process requiring etching, and evolving carcinogenic gasses during the processing), but yes it can be applied to a serving spoon.

Regards,

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A. It's a public forum, anyone can respond. But me, I probably would not buy and spray such a product on it; but you could try Belray No-Tox Food Grade Dry PTFE Spray or Interflon Food Lube or something similar, but only if it specifically says it's okay (if it's not expensive it may not be food-safe). Have you tried mineral oil ⇦this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] , which is much cheaper?

Luck & Regards,