As you’re pulling out pots and pans to cook Thanksgiving dinner this weekend, some culinary experts are warning Canadians about the pitfalls of a common, convenient tool you might be turning to: non-stick cookware.

When she was just starting out in the industry, maintaining a food blog, Julia House spent hours researching the right tools to buy for her ever-growing kitchen, wanting to know which products would last, and which ones were safe.

“The nature of non-stick pans is there isn't one on the market that will last forever, period. Full stop. Anyone who tells you otherwise is not being honest with you,” House said. “It's a thin material, it's a soft material.”

Non-stick pots and pans contain perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances — more commonly known as PFAS. PFAS have been d

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