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Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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The ink in newspapers is often 'not good' to 'bad' for your health, which makes rubbing it onto your cookwares a slightly dubious choice.

That used to be true, these days most newspaper inks are soy based, so its probably safe.

Gotta say, nothing beats the smell of burning newspaper when you first start making a barbecue. I feel better about the ink being soy based now.

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This is a real problem. My wife had been having extreme stomach pain for months, multiple trips to the emergency room, gastroenterologist, nothing could be found. She described that she felt that there was a hole in her stomach, the doctors called it stress. On her final ER visit (two months after the pain began), something showed up in the CT scan (the 3rd one). Embedded in her belly fat was a wire. Everything click…

Glad your wife is ok. I dated a girl once who had a similar experience when she was younger. Her family thought she was complaining about nothing and eventually received treatment.

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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What mattashii said: newspaper ink has (or at least used to have) lots of lead. I'm not sure how bad it is, but I'd imagine that long-term you might want to avoid it. Specially when something as easy to find as a potato or a bunch of leaves will do the same job without the risk :)

> but I'd imagine that long-term you might want to avoid it. It's safe now. People use it for compost all the time. The real danger from a BBQ is smoke.

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Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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> said the number of cases across Canada isn't tracked. We are Neanderthals sometimes. (I'd like to think it was because of privacy reasons)

Yeah, I wonder how frequently it happens.

It's like the lady from reddit that wears ear plugs to bed everyday because of a horrifying experience with a cockroach. Of course you get a few horrifying experiences when you have millions of people doing stuff.

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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This is a real problem. My wife had been having extreme stomach pain for months, multiple trips to the emergency room, gastroenterologist, nothing could be found. She described that she felt that there was a hole in her stomach, the doctors called it stress. On her final ER visit (two months after the pain began), something showed up in the CT scan (the 3rd one). Embedded in her belly fat was a wire. Everything click…

Fuck this I'm done with brushes.

I have a nylon brush that works great, it's designed to be used when the grill is cold.

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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post #91

It's interesting many countries such as the US, UK and NZ have banned rare earth magnets due to fear of people swallowing them. The data they used to back the banning included all products ingested, and vice wrote up an article here: http://www.vice.com/read/the-consumer-product-safety-commiss... If a product is causing similar health risks, isn't it fair to apply the same ban to it too?

rare earth magnets are not banned in the US per se. They are banned from children's toys. But I don't let my kids play with wire brushes either.

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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> said the number of cases across Canada isn't tracked. We are Neanderthals sometimes. (I'd like to think it was because of privacy reasons)

It's because each province maintains their own health care data and many of them refuse to share anything with the others - whether from a paranoid privacy standpoint or a bureaucratic inability to make it happen.

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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A trick I learned from Argentinian circus people, who make amazing BBQ, is let the grill heat up and then cut an onion in half to rub on the grate. It imparts a nice flavor and cleans the grill very well.

The Argentinian trick is basically: 1. let the grill get hot 2. rub with something to clean old grit 3. rub again with a chunk of fat (from the meat) for flavor The "something" in step #2 has varied over the years. Back in the day, my grandpa used to use old newspapers... which of course we know today it's not such a great idea, heh. Onions, half a potato, a corn stalk, even a chunk of brick will do the trick. You ju…

what do you do about rust? The chrome coating on my grill comes off and the iron underneath rusts. The wire bristle was the only thing working.

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

#130

This is a real problem. My wife had been having extreme stomach pain for months, multiple trips to the emergency room, gastroenterologist, nothing could be found. She described that she felt that there was a hole in her stomach, the doctors called it stress. On her final ER visit (two months after the pain began), something showed up in the CT scan (the 3rd one). Embedded in her belly fat was a wire. Everything click…

Fuck this I'm done with brushes.

I've never ingested one, but I've spotted and removed bristles on my grills several times. I stopped using them awhile ago. It's only a matter of time before someone swallows one.
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