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Re: Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

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Post by sickofparadox »

snowwrestler wrote: post #540
dfxm12 wrote: post #484

From gidmkhealthnerd, a scientific fact-checker: Counterpoint: this seems to be the crusade of a single researcher - I don't find the data personally convincing and am still using my black spatula for cooking. https://www.threads.net/@gidmkhealthnerd/post/DBxbQERykRx?hl...

It’s kind of funny to watch the following conversations both recur regularly here on HN: - The replication crisis means most science is bad and we should be extremely skeptical of scientific consensus. - This one single scientific paper changes everything and you are negligent if you don’t immediately change your life based on it.

To be fair to people, it is INCREDIBLY difficult to cope with the fact that a plurality or even most papers that come out may be found to be completely un-reproducible. For low stakes things like getting rid of a plastic spatula or cutting board, there is a sub-$20 cost to get rid of them and believe it is right (even if it ends up being wrong), while the cost of not believing and the paper being right is a massively increased chance of cancer. Science will likely never have its reckoning with reality, people will just believe in it less and less until it becomes background noise like everything else.

Re: Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

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Post by liveoneggs »

dfxm12 wrote: post #484

From gidmkhealthnerd, a scientific fact-checker: Counterpoint: this seems to be the crusade of a single researcher - I don't find the data personally convincing and am still using my black spatula for cooking. https://www.threads.net/@gidmkhealthnerd/post/DBxbQERykRx?hl...

it's a weird hill to die on when you can get an almost-exact item made from silicone instead of that gross plastic

Re: Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

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Post by chithanh »

iamacyborg wrote: post #280
echoangle wrote: post #273

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The specific thing I was talking about is this: > I’ve not gotten sick from home cooking once. How would you know that? Unless you’ve never been sick at all, I don’t know how you could say that.

Food poisoning is generally something you know you’ve got.

Really? It's one thing to understand that whatever pathogen you were infected with is (also) foodborne. But tracking the infection to something particular which you ate is generally quite hard, and it is even harder to track accidental contamination.

And many people do not understand where actual danger comes from. For example it is a really bad idea to rinse raw chicken meat. Yet this practice is still widespread.

https://www.cdc.gov/food-safety/communication-resources/wash...

Re: Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

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Post by hamhock666 »

dfxm12 wrote: post #484

From gidmkhealthnerd, a scientific fact-checker: Counterpoint: this seems to be the crusade of a single researcher - I don't find the data personally convincing and am still using my black spatula for cooking. https://www.threads.net/@gidmkhealthnerd/post/DBxbQERykRx?hl...

But why take the chance? Just buy a metal spatula next time and there’s nothing to worry about if it turns out to be true

Re: Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

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Post by shepherdjerred »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #546

Avoid plastic if you want to live long, whatever if it's cooking or drinking. Now I know that yet I drink water exclusively from plastic bottle, because ground water is contaminated with pesticides here. So it's either micro plastic in the water or pesticide, choose your poison. Because I don't use Teflon (plastic) covered pan, I need more oil to avoid food to stick to the pan. The oil comes in plastic bottle, catego…

At least in the US butter comes in wax paper

Re: Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

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Post by lxgr »

hamhock666 wrote: post #554
dfxm12 wrote: post #484

From gidmkhealthnerd, a scientific fact-checker: Counterpoint: this seems to be the crusade of a single researcher - I don't find the data personally convincing and am still using my black spatula for cooking. https://www.threads.net/@gidmkhealthnerd/post/DBxbQERykRx?hl...

But why take the chance? Just buy a metal spatula next time and there’s nothing to worry about if it turns out to be true

Only if you don't care about not ruining your non-stick pans (or don't use any).

Re: Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

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Post by [deleted] »

JohnFen wrote: post #14
chomp wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cast iron? My eggs slide around great every time, and I scrub it with Dawn and a sponge after every cook (it is a myth that you cannot do this)

Cast iron is the best. The hardest part of cast iron is all of the nonsense people believe about cast iron, leading them to think it's inconvenient and, worse, that gets them to actively make cast iron problematic.

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Re: Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

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Post by mossTechnician »

dfxm12 wrote: post #484

From gidmkhealthnerd, a scientific fact-checker: Counterpoint: this seems to be the crusade of a single researcher - I don't find the data personally convincing and am still using my black spatula for cooking. https://www.threads.net/@gidmkhealthnerd/post/DBxbQERykRx?hl...

"I don't find the data personally convincing" is a poor retort. And that's all he says, without any further information.

Is his post supposed to be taken seriously?

If this person is a fact checker, he's probably run into plenty of people who would say "I don't find the data personally convincing" to explain why they don't trust vaccines.

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Post by rconti »

is_true wrote: post #510
asow92 wrote: post #453

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been a fan of using stainless steel spatulas on cast iron for years now and it doesn't seem to scratch or degrade the "seasoning" on the cast iron in any apparently meaningful way.

it's all about the angle, wood utensils are usually softer and rounder so they are safer. I accidentally removed a little of the "seasoning" of a cast iron and in the following uses it started to come out around the scratch. Where I live there's another plus to wood utensils, I can help the people that make them locally

(reply really meant for @arrowleaf)

Man, I'm so turned off by the entire cast iron hype cult. I've tried so hard to make it work for me, and it just doesn't, and everyone's advice is totally different so it's impossible to know what to do. Wash it. Don't wash it. Scrub the shit out of it. Just remove the chunks and leave the rest.

The reply will inevitably be "it's simple, just...." where the words following "just" are different from anything ever written on the topic before.

Re: Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

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Post by 11235813213455 »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #546

Avoid plastic if you want to live long, whatever if it's cooking or drinking. Now I know that yet I drink water exclusively from plastic bottle, because ground water is contaminated with pesticides here. So it's either micro plastic in the water or pesticide, choose your poison. Because I don't use Teflon (plastic) covered pan, I need more oil to avoid food to stick to the pan. The oil comes in plastic bottle, catego…

If you eat a lot of fruit (I guess not seeing your tastes), you almost don't need to drink extra water, or very few, and vegetable water is extra pure and super valuable. Trees should be so much protected, they're doing a hell of a job
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