Is it possible to substitute the PFAS with a wax coating?
Most waxes melt at about body temperature. You’d be eating waxed popcorn.
Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)
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I love movie theater popcorn so I often try to get that exact experience at home. The biggest leap in quality for me is using a tall pot and a colander on top, it achieves the same goal as your paper towel between the lid-- getting that excess moisture out of the pot really makes all the difference!
The secret to movie popcorn flavor is coconut oil and the flavored salt.
Coconut oil is ok but it does have a distinct taste.
My favorite is to use beef tallow.
Re: Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)
#223Is it possible to substitute the PFAS with a wax coating?
Most waxes are made from fossil fuels anyway (because money).
Re: Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)
#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ironically the pans in breadmakers are always(afaik) non-stick, based on the same PFAS chemicals. Not that im saying you should avoid using a bread maker, but it doesn't avoid all chemicals...
Less ironically the nonstick surfaces do not leach much of those after an initial bake cycle, unless you scrape them. Much less than, say, a plastic bottle. But if you're really bothered by this, you can actually get a non-stick ceramic coated insert instead. Or do it the classic way with steel or glass and fat, just like cake. Or get bread that's not packed in plastic heh.
I was thinking that the PFAS probably make their way into the bread not during the bake cycle, but during the dough kneading/mixing cycles.
In my head I imagine the dough sticking to the surface and removing a monolayer of PFAS and integrating it in the dough.
Re: Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)
#225Reminder that PFAS is so pervasive that researchers can't design studies with a proper control group. i.e. they virtually cannot find anyone in the world without PFAS in their blood. Dupont/3M did (and continue to do) a level of harm on par with CFCs and leaded gasoline, with complete regulatory impunity. At some point the ICC needs to extend the crimes against humanity/nature to something like crimes against Human H…
> Dupont/3M did (and continue to do) a level of harm 3M is on The Economist today with relevance to this matter: > 3M, an American conglomerate, agreed to pay cities and utilities $12.5bn to settle thousands of lawsuits that had alleged chemicals emitted by the firm's products had polluted drinking-water supplies
Nice. I’m guessing that’ll barely cover a years worth of filtration (which they won’t ever spend it on anyway). What about the next 100 years? Let them profit because oligarchy?
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#227Best popcorn you can make is cheap and easy cleanup. Take one large pot (the kind that holds like 10qts). Cover the bottom with kernels. Add a bit of oil, basically just enough to swirl and have everything covered in an oil sheen, not enough to have them submerged. Cover, put on high (I use gas). I like to suspend a paper towel between the lid and the rest of the pot, absorbs excess oil and water. Once popping slows,…
Out of interest, why do you prefer a salt grinder? I've never understood why these exist. Pepper grinders, absolutely - the aromatics are released on grinding. By not so with salt. Curious if I'm missing something.
My conjecture: salt grinders create more irregular shapes than provided by commercially made table salt. Irregular shapes mean more surface area, which means faster absorption into the body, which means tastier food.
Totally without evidence.
Re: Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)
#228Some brands do use PFAS free bags and have for a while though.
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#229Why has fertility halved we ask as we drink the plastic water.
One day this will be the “why did they put lead in toys” of our period
Re: Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)
#230Reminder that PFAS is so pervasive that researchers can't design studies with a proper control group. i.e. they virtually cannot find anyone in the world without PFAS in their blood. Dupont/3M did (and continue to do) a level of harm on par with CFCs and leaded gasoline, with complete regulatory impunity. At some point the ICC needs to extend the crimes against humanity/nature to something like crimes against Human H…
> Dupont/3M did (and continue to do) a level of harm 3M is on The Economist today with relevance to this matter: > 3M, an American conglomerate, agreed to pay cities and utilities $12.5bn to settle thousands of lawsuits that had alleged chemicals emitted by the firm's products had polluted drinking-water supplies
What about all the other cities in the world?
If the true cost of this damage were paid, 3M would be driven to bancrupsy. Maybe then the next conpany would not be so gun-ho about dumping strange chemicals.
This is your regular reminder that many of the wealthy are only so, because they never pay for the consequences of their actions.