Using Pam, is it OK to cook with?

[Shane Lewis]

 I know there is a post about seasoning with Pam, but I am not sure if it is OK in the long run.
 I gave a newly stripped and seasoned griddle a shot of Pam to bake some canned biscutes, then tried to use some Crisco a few days latter to add another coat of seasoning as I was doing some more pans.
The Crisco would just bead up, which I have never seen before.
Makes me wonder if Pam is not full of stuff that is not safe to our bodies in the long run, and maybe even cause a failed seasoning of our cast iron.

[Steve Butler]

Shane, I've been using Kroger's brand of spray canola oil for the home and my camp ovens forever, no problems. If you don't mind the third ear I grew.......nope, seems safe to me.

[Greg Stahl]

Isn't PAM just canola oil?

[Tom Neitzel]

Isn't PAM just canola oil?

It had lecithin too. I think there's something else in it now also.  I don't have a can around but I know I switched to the generic Kirkland brand at Costco because it is just Canola and Lecithin, like the old PAM.  Cheaper too.

[Tom Reisdorf]

Pam ingredients:
Canola Oil, Palm Oil, Coconut Oil, Lecithin from soy beans (non stick agent), Dimethyl Silicone (for anti-foaming),Rosemary Extract (Preservative), Propellant

I use generic Canola Spray from Aldi $1.29 a can

Ingredients:
Canola oil, Soy Lecithin, Dimethyl Silicone(for anti-foaming), Propellant

[Steve Butler]

Greg, here in Tenn. we have Pam canola, olive and vegatable oils in spray. I've heard there's a grapeseed oil spray out there but have never seen it.

[Cheryl Watson]

Steve, the Grapeseed Aerosol is 'Spectrum'.  I have a shelf full of it! ;)

[Bryce King]

I have been using Pam for years.  Before I began using CI.  Only health problem it created for me was that I gained some weight.   ;D

[Jim Glatthaar]

Is anyone concerned about the silicone in some of these sprays?