Is Cooking with "Cooking Spray" Good for your Health?

Cooking sprays have made baking and cooking sticky meals so much easier!

No more greasing of pans manually and getting your fingers all gooey and greasy...

But is it really a health hazard in the kitchen that we are consuming and are we better off doing it the old fashioned way or just making our own?

Here are some reasons to toss the whole idea of purchasing a cooking spray!

- Ingredients in a cooking spray - soy lecithin, mono and diglycerides, dimethylpolysiloxane, dimethyl silicone, or artificial flavors

I never understood why a cooking spray doesn't just have oil in it?

- Did you know that your cooking spray has genetically modified ingredients?... This simply means that some or most of the ingredients come from seeds that have been genetically modified or altered so that more pesticides can be used to grow the plant faster without the plant dying.

- Your cooking spray contains SOY - A Harvard University study, reported that eating as little as one half serving of soy per day can result in problems such as infertility in males and increased breast cancer risk in females.

- What good is the empty can to our environment? The amount of unnecessary waste created by the packaging. While we could argue that they are recyclable, we still must keep in mind that the recycling process also requires a great deal of energy, in the form of heat, electricity etc.

So is there a solution to this problem?
Yes there is!

Use an ordinary small spray bottle or if you happen to have any hair oils that came in a spray bottle..even better..

A bottle that is made for spraying oil will work if you just fill it with oil only..

If you have to use an ordinary spray bottle use the following mixture: 

1/2 water

1/2 cooking oil (preferably coconut oil)

So, we can finally stop wasting money on the expensive and harmful non-stick sprays!! ...and make our own :)

Reference: examiner.com/