Safe Loaf Pans That Give Good Results?

[Cockatude]

My grey had a health scare recently, and he is still recovering. While I was at the animal hospital, the vet started telling me about the dangers of Teflon, which I already knew about, but she let me know standards had changed. When I got my bird, the basic wisdom was that you could use Teflon if you didn't overheat it, and letting your birds be around cooking, generally, was not dangerous. This has worked for me since 1991.

Now I am being told Teflon can be a problem, long-term, even if used properly. I have cast iron, but I have been cautioned about that, too. That is difficult, because after all, I have to eat, and I have to cook on something.

I have a Teflon pizza pan and some Teflon loaf pans that produce wonderful results, but the vet has made me nervous.

I can make pizza using a bare aluminum pan if I season it like cast iron. I don't know if that's a perfect solution, but at least it's not Teflon. That leaves the loaf pans. Has anyone here found a loaf pan that makes really good crusty bread without nonstick?

America's Test Kitchen likes a steel pan covered with a silicone-based product called Americoat, but I have seen posts here criticizing it. I can use glass. The loaves will look a little weird, but the quality should be good. Maybe I should just look for the old steel pans my mother used. I don't want to use cast iron for bread.

As a side note, my bird's problem appears to be the result of using bifenthrin indoors. I would stay far away from this stuff. I have used it for years without trouble, but I gave a bug-infested couch a few good blasts with a hand sprayer, and serious problems started in a few hours.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

What problems did your Grey develop after exposure to the Bifenthrin? Do you recall what the product you used was called?

You should be able to use pain aluminum cake loaf pans. My mom used wax paper cut to fit on the bottom of plain aluminum loaf pans and round cake pans. She also smeared vegetable shortening on the sides of the pans. It would peel off the bottom of the loaf easily when she flipped the pan over after it cooled. I recall doing this when I went through a cake baking phase when I was about 12 years old. We didn't have any nonstick pans and I never had a sticking problem using waxed paper.

 

[Jcas]

We use aluminum or steel loaf pans to bake bread with good results. You can use glass but it doesn’t seem to create as good of a crust.