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Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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Post by jshevek »

kaffeinecoma wrote: post #238

Paranoid patient question: when one goes for an MRI, is there any kind of scan for foreign metal objects? I'm sure they ask if you have any devices implanted, but do they actually check for the unexpected? What would happen if you had one of these little bristles and you didn't know it?

I'm not aware of any such scan, and I'd feel a lot safer if there were such a tool. I simply can't be sure if I have any embedded metal fragments, and do not want to discover this by having any such pieces rip through my body.

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Post by goda90 »

bfuller wrote: post #22

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.

Same in Chile. My friends and family here in the US always question why I'm rubbing an onion on the grill.

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Post by balabaster »

shultays wrote: post #233
genkimind wrote: post #39

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…

Isn't a metal wire highly visible in x-ray? How doctors miss that?

Also, aren't BBQ bristle brushes magnetic? Wouldn't a simple magnet over the spot have exacerbated the pain and triggered a closer look?

Not that you'd have known to use a magnet to test it, but now it's certainly something that could be considered on a checklist of cheap/free things to check before more expensive/time consuming/invasive procedures are initiated.

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Post by huherto »

tekni5 wrote: post #146

I use one of these bristle brushes because I didn't know better, I've also even seen a few bristles fall out before & had me a bit concerned. However I always end up microwaving for 30 seconds after, because by the time I've let the meat rest and turned off the grill my food isn't as warm as I want it. So maybe I've been lucky, as I figure there would have been a reaction if there was metal in the microwave. Anyways…

I heat plates where I serve the steak. It helps to keep it hot while you are eating it.

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Post by jimktrains2 »

yitchelle wrote: post #164
jrowley wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Off topic but any other tricks you learned from Argentinian circus people? Or circus people in general?

Our kids in a standard German school has one whole week devoted to learning circus tricks and acts. At the end of the week, they put on a show for the parents and the local community. Money raised from the ticket sales goes back to the school. The kids loved it, and so did the parents. They did things like walking on glass, eating fire, trapeze and other crazy acts.

Sounds like an insurance nightmare.

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Post by SamBam »

OrdaGarb wrote: post #70

Related: If you tenderize with a Jaccard-like tool, examine the teeth very closely before you cook your meat. I have had the blades break in half longitudinally where it still looked like a full blade, but had actually "delaminated" toward the end and left a 15mm chunk of pointed metal in my steak. It ended up in my gums. I still use the broken blade set, but simply make sure it has all the parts before moving on. No…

"I love this tenderizer and highly recommend them, just look out for busted blades!"

Waaa???

If the blade can delaminate in that way, I would in no way recommend them.

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Post by lovedj »

I always thought that was either an urban legend, or that only unskilled, stupid people swallowed or inhaled pins. But she had probably done that for years. Her co-workers, too. She wasn't naive or thoughtless. That's what scares me. I do that (well, DID that) every time I work on something... pins are staying in the cushion now.

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Post by kaiserama »

tptacek wrote: post #105
genkimind wrote: post #39

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 just saw this at my state fair. I think I'll be getting one now:

https://www.amazon.com/Woody-Paddle-Natural-Scraper-Scrape/d...

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Post by Pxtl »

tptacek wrote: post #132
pippy wrote: 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?

This is not really true. What the US banned were toys and novelty items based around easily-swallowable rare earth magnets. The ban is on marketing and packaging, not on magnets themselves.

Rare earth magnets are unsuitable to be marketed as toys? Then it makes sense that metal bristle scrubbers are unsuitable to be marketed for cleaning food-prep equipment.

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Post by DDickson »

kaffeinecoma wrote: post #238

Paranoid patient question: when one goes for an MRI, is there any kind of scan for foreign metal objects? I'm sure they ask if you have any devices implanted, but do they actually check for the unexpected? What would happen if you had one of these little bristles and you didn't know it?

My father has worked with metal his whole life. If just a tiny sliver of metal shaving landed in his eye and worked it's way around to the back, an MRI would tear it straight through the eye ball.
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