Interesting Facts about Nonstick Cooking Spray
Often times, an everyday product can sort of disappear from our interests, just due to the fact that we use it every day. For instance, how often do we really think about how our microwaves work, or hear about interesting facts about how paper is made? We tend to take items like those for granted and not ever really devote any thought to them at all.
A perfect example of this phenomenon can be found in the form of nonstick cooking spray. In actuality, this is really pretty interesting stuff. No one takes the time to think about it, really, but nonstick cooking spray has many unique, intriguing characteristics. For instance:
1) Nonstick cooking spray is highly explosive
Sure, there are all sorts of everyday products that are highly flammable which we all use without thinking about them. Even the explosive properties of gasoline, I’m sure, many people simply don’t think about every time they fill up their fuel tanks. However, nonstick cooking spray is highly flammable and extremely explosive. So, if you’re doing outside cooking or cooking over open flames, remember to keep the spray away from the fire. Otherwise, you might get a little more heat than you really need to cook the food.
2) Nonstick cooking spray is used as a drug
Needless to say, such behavior is completely idiotic and may result in brain damage, death, or dangerous behavior. But, if one can use a product to affect them in some kind of mind-altering way, some lunatic will inevitably do it.
Such is the case with nonstick spray. Many kinds of nonstick spray, including the prolific �⒬ŔPam�⒬� brand, contain often-abused propellants like nitrous oxide. People, particularly young teens, will use these inhalants as gateway drugs. So, if you’re a parent with young children and you suddenly notice that the nonstick cooking spray seems to be gone a lot more often than normal, you might want to have a talk with your children. The same thing goes for whipped cream, which is also often abused, and many other household products.
3) Nonstick cooking spray can be used as a household cleaner
Actually, it’s highly effective in one particular area: the bathroom. If you spray down the interior walls of your shower, and even the curtain, with nonstick cooking spray, soap scum won’t form on those surfaces. Also, you can spray it onto a rag and wipe down shower surfaces for a quick cleaning. It’s really quite effective.
4) You can use nonstick cooking spray as ant poison
Although it seems odd, it’s quite true. Nonstick cooking spray will kill ants almost immediately on contact. Of course, the downside, as opposed to ant poison, is that you’ll have to wipe up the deceased ants and the cooking spray. On the other hand, your ant problem will be at an end.
5) Nonstick cooking spray is not calorie free or fat free, despite what its label says
Although this seems common sense, many people are fooled by the way that the manufacturers package their product. The vast major of nonstick cooking spray is labeled as �⒬Ŕ0 Calories Per Serving�⒬� or as a way to help promote �⒬ŔFat Free Cooking.�⒬� This is absolute nonsense.
The main ingredient in all nonstick cooking spray is oil. Although the type of oil in question does vary, one thing does not: oil is comprised of fat. And what do we all know about fat? That’s right, it’s very high in calories.
So, how do the nonstick spray manufacturers get away with labeling their product as calorie free, when it is in essence a can full of fat? Well, one serving of nonstick cooking spray is equal to about one third of a second’s worth of depressing the spray button. This is much less than it actually takes to coat a pan or baking sheet. However, the FDA says that if one serving of your product contains a very small amount of calories, you’re legally allowed to say it contains none at all. That’s how the companies that produce nonstick spray get away with this little trick of advertising.
