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Thread Number: 96811
/ Tag: Recipes, Cooking Accessories
Black Plastic Kitchen Utensils & Food Containers May Contain Toxic Chemical |
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Post# 1215982 10/1/2024 at 19:23 by Launderess  (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Something else to worry about.
edition.cnn.com/2024/10/01/healt... people.com/black-plastics-kitche... | ||
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| Post# 1215987 , Reply# 1 10/1/2024 at 21:33 by qsd-dan (West) | ||
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Post# 1215993 , Reply# 2 10/1/2024 at 23:19 by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Have some black plastic kitchen untisils (spoons, ladle, spatulas, dumpling/ravioli thingy and two spatulas. Purchased set years ago when first setting up housekeeping but rarely use. In fact only time really bother is when using various dark lined pots/pans (set if KitchenAid gifted to one by someone moving house) to keep from nicking interior.
With this bit of information will likely keep them in drawers. Do reuse those black plastic things prepared foods come in for storing things in fridge or sending people home with leftovers. | ||
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Post# 1215994 , Reply# 3 10/1/2024 at 23:27 by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Post# 1215995 , Reply# 4 10/1/2024 at 23:41 by tolivac (greenville nc) |
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I just bought some black kitchen tools-now I will need to get some SS ones and put the black ones in the back corner of the pantry. | ||
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Post# 1216279 , Reply# 6 10/7/2024 at 15:46 by appnut (TX) |
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I got some black utensils similar to pictured in the first article when I got my induction stove May 2017 so I wouldn't scratch my new Cuisinart Multiclad Pro cookware. I rarely use any of these utensils during the cooking process as I usually use wooden spoons of various sizes and some white plastic/silicone?? spoons for all the stirring and such while cooking. I only use those large black utensils when ladeling out soups, chili or emptying ingredients in large amounts to serving bowls and platters.
But I probably will replace this set with comparable items at some point that are white. | ||
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Post# 1216292 , Reply# 7 10/7/2024 at 20:53 by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area) |
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Bob, white plastic is notorious for staining from tomato products. You might want to consider commercial stainless steel utensils such as Vollrath. Given reasonable care, they will last many decades. | ||
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Post# 1216293 , Reply# 8 10/7/2024 at 21:25 by appnut (TX) |
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Tom, I'm so worried I"ll scratch my Cuisinart induction cookware. I can deal with tomato stained items, but these I won't be using as much as I use my existing wooden and plastic spoons. It's rare I use my existing black materials, but I probably could use them the brief amount of time I do. I don'st soak them in pots of food and such.
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Post# 1216295 , Reply# 9 10/7/2024 at 21:29 by MattL (Flushing, MI) |
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Well worn cookware is a sign of a well used kitchen and good meals. | ||
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Post# 1216356 , Reply# 10 10/8/2024 at 22:15 by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area) |
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Bob, does it have some type of non-stick coating? I've never scratched any of my SS cookware with the utensils. | ||
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Post# 1216363 , Reply# 11 10/9/2024 at 04:29 by mrboilwash (Munich,Germany) |
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I find it hard to believe that recycled plastic can find its way into articles for food.
Aren`t there any regulations in the US like we have them in the EU to avoid this or are they simply ignored by careless manufacturers? Whatever the reason is it has always been good advice not to buy anything that smells toxic, whether it`s meant for food contact or not. If something smells like new car tires, tar or anything similar then don`t buy! The more it stinks the more poisonous it is. It`s not only flame retardants in spatulas and food containers, things like plasticizers and PAHs can also enter our bodies in large quantities over the skin from a cheap rubberized screwdriver, flip flops or whatever else. The same holds true for clothes and textiles. If it smells unpleasant better don`t buy. Or if it doesn`t come out with repeated washings better toss it. | ||
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Post# 1216364 , Reply# 12 10/9/2024 at 04:59 by mrboilwash (Munich,Germany) |
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On a side note the older generation may still remember the chemical toxic fumes from the flame retardants coupled with burned dust when radios and TV sets still had "hot" tubes and came in wooden cabinets.
Even back then our grandparents knew it was essential for our health to open the windows for proper ventilation after a long TV night. | ||
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Post# 1216371 , Reply# 13 10/9/2024 at 07:56 by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan & Palm Springs, CA) |
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my husband is an audiophile, and we also have a console stereo (1964 Fisher Futura) which is fun. The amount of ozone it produces, though is noticeable (right after we got it he was playing it using Bluetooth for a radio station in California. I was upstairs (it sits near the stairway) and as I came downstairs for something I had the most amazing deja vu--with the odor of the ozone wafting upstairs as I heard the talk of the radio station....swept me back to childhood!
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