philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agoMy mother-in-law's way of sealing plastic bags. Yes that's been burnt by the stove topthelemmy.clubimagemessage-square52linkfedilinkarrow-up1193arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1190arrow-down1imageMy mother-in-law's way of sealing plastic bags. Yes that's been burnt by the stove topthelemmy.clubphilanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square52linkfedilinkfile-text
I love her to bits but I can’t figure out how she though this was a gold idea. It puts fumes into the food
minus-squareabbadon420@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·14 days agoThere many different kinds of plastic, many of which are perfectly safe to put in the microwave for a few minutes.
minus-squareINeedMana@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoI used to think so too but then there was a study that any kind of stress (heating, mechanical, cooling) makes any kind of plastic release microplastics into the food. With heating being the worst, cooling “the best” Of course I can’t find it now, I guess it might have been after the pandemic (meaning - two eternities for the way my memory works, there’s no chance I can remember what were the noticeable words in the title). But here’s something similar https://pubs.acs.org/esthag/article-abstract/57/26/9782/316425/Assessing-the-Release-of-Microplastics-and
There many different kinds of plastic, many of which are perfectly safe to put in the microwave for a few minutes.
I used to think so too but then there was a study that any kind of stress (heating, mechanical, cooling) makes any kind of plastic release microplastics into the food. With heating being the worst, cooling “the best”
Of course I can’t find it now, I guess it might have been after the pandemic (meaning - two eternities for the way my memory works, there’s no chance I can remember what were the noticeable words in the title). But here’s something similar https://pubs.acs.org/esthag/article-abstract/57/26/9782/316425/Assessing-the-Release-of-Microplastics-and