National Teflon Day
About National Teflon Day
When is National Teflon Day? This holiday is always celebrated on April 6
Today is Teflon Day, a special day to stick on your calendar, even though little or nothing sticks to Teflon. This April 6 holiday celebrates the accidental invention of this remarkable coating for your pots and pans.
What an amazing discovery. Teflon coated on kitchen pots, pans, cookie sheets, and other cooking objects, saves you countless time in scouring and scrubbing at the kitchen sink. While it is best known as a nonstick coating for cookware, there are many other uses.
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is widely used as an industrial coating. It also is used in many other common products, including fabric and rug protection, hair styling tools, nail polish, and windshield wiper blades, to name a few.
Some of the best inventions occur by accident. Dr. Roy Plunkett was working in the laboratory trying to create a refrigerant. On April 6, 1938, he accidentally discovered Teflon. Teflon was trademarked in 1945. In 1961, in Kansas City, Missouri professor Marion A. Trozzolo took Teflon from the lab to the kitchen. The first Teflon-coated frying pan was called “The Happy Pan”. Cookware has not been the same since.
Did You Know? Teflon is a good electrical insulator. That’s the reason why Teflon tape exists.
BTW. Have you ever heard someone called the “Teflon Man”? Some people never seem to catch the blame for anything. Problems and blame seem to slide right off of them. We can also use today to recognize these lucky devils.
How to Celebrate National Teflon Day
Here are some ideas on how to celebrate National Teflon Day:
- Can you think of any better way to enjoy this special day, than to cook and bake on Teflon-coated cookware? Neither can we!
- Buy a new set of Teflon cookware.
- Don’t let anything stick to you today.
Today's Chuckle
Build a man a fire and he will be warm for a say. Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
History and Origin of National Teflon Day
We know why this special day was created on April 6, as it commemorates the invention of Teflon.
Our research did not uncover who turned this into a special holiday event. It appears to have been first celebrated in the early 2010s.
Somewhere around 2015-2016, internet websites began adding the word “National” to the title of this holiday. We are not aware of any presidential proclamation or an act of congress making this a true “National ” day.
Definition of “National” Days – Find out why it is important to distinguish true National days.
This Day in History
Besides National Teflon Day, here are some other things that happened on April 6:
- The first modern Olympic games open in Athens, Greece. (1896)
- Twinkies hit the market. Continental Baking Company filled the first Twinkies a banana filling. (1930)
- James D. Watson, biochemist, co-discovered the structure of DNA, was born on this day in 1928.
More April 6 Holidays
Besides National Teflon Day, here are more April 6 holidays you will enjoy:
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