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Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)

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Re: Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)

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Post by CaptainZapp »

sideproject wrote: post #186

An oncologist in my family anecdotally told me how her patients are getting younger and younger - speculates (with research) that lots of food chemicals might be contributing. Since the beginning of this year, our family has been much more conscious of the ingredients in the food labels. Lots of additives with many different numbers. We've been trying to get back to more natural things with less numbers. We bought br…

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

Michael Pollan

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Post by AstralStorm »

Rnonymous wrote: post #189
sideproject wrote: post #186

An oncologist in my family anecdotally told me how her patients are getting younger and younger - speculates (with research) that lots of food chemicals might be contributing. Since the beginning of this year, our family has been much more conscious of the ingredients in the food labels. Lots of additives with many different numbers. We've been trying to get back to more natural things with less numbers. We bought br…

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.

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Post by drdrey »

369548684892826 wrote: post #141
gpvos wrote: post #135

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10 quarts = 11.3 l I had no idea that a quart is about a litre.

The other one that threw me is how am I supposed to measure 1/8th cup of butter?

In the US, butter is sold in sticks with 1/8 cup markings on the wrapper

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Post by toxicFork »

m_mueller wrote: post #166
sgtnoodle wrote: post #67

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That's why I take out a dozen or so unpopped kernels before popping the rest. It's easier to throw them right in the trash, rather than have to pick them out of the rest of the popped corn.

wait, how can you differentiate the unpopped from the yet to pop? (tbh. so far I'm just a premade popcorn buyer, so ELI5...)

When you pick the kernels for the sacrifice they have to accept their fate and the others have to accept the tribute. It's just their tradition.

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Post by toxicFork »

sideproject wrote: post #186

An oncologist in my family anecdotally told me how her patients are getting younger and younger - speculates (with research) that lots of food chemicals might be contributing. Since the beginning of this year, our family has been much more conscious of the ingredients in the food labels. Lots of additives with many different numbers. We've been trying to get back to more natural things with less numbers. We bought br…

I thought at first that the existing patients are getting better and looking younger thanks to the chemicals, rather than the new patients being younger than the previous ones.

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Post by NovemberWhiskey »

hutzlibu wrote: post #162
gruez wrote: post #122

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What's wrong with the anti-caking agents?

They are toxic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_ferrocyanide The amount is small enough, that it is supposed to do no harm, but I just prefer my salt without cyanide.

>They are toxic.

If you ate enough salt to reach a toxic dose of sodium ferrocyanide, you’d already be dead from hypernatremia though?

The dose makes the poison.

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

redox99 wrote: post #124
sgtnoodle wrote: post #115

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A coffee grinder will quickly make a lot of really fine salt. I do that when I need to heat treat 3D printed parts to improve their material strength. You pack the part into fine salt, bake it at the original extrusion temperature, then slowly let it cool down. The plastic liquefies, and the packed salt holds its shape.

That'll probably really fuck up a coffee grinder, so make sure you don't use it for coffee.

why would it fuck up a coffee grinder?

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

carlmr wrote: post #145
bboygravity wrote: post #137

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Portuguese kitching uses a lot of coarse salt. A 1 kilo bag is like 0,23 EUR

Also can't make good brownies without big salt crystals. Or pretzels.

In london at Canary Wharf there is a 'German' pub that serves pretzels without salt on them! I tried explaining that they are all crinimals but they were just really confused!

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Post by galangalalgol »

epcoa wrote: post #161
redox99 wrote: post #124

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That'll probably really fuck up a coffee grinder, so make sure you don't use it for coffee.

I would assume they are talking about a blade "coffee" grinder, which is ironically terrible for coffee.

If you want a really fine grind in a hurry you can use one and get ok results. You have to let it rest every 30s or so to cool down or it heats the grounds too much. I liked to shake it while grinding too. It isn't quite Turkish grind and there are a few large pieces that won't get full extraction, but if you want really fast extraction (or fast intentional over extraction) it works.

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Post by airza »

askvictor wrote: post #89
InvaderFizz wrote: post #33

Best 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.

Grinding the salt more finely makes it stick to the popcorn a bit better.
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