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Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

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Re: Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

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Post by metalman »

lostlogin wrote: post #172
metalman wrote: post #162

friend then later girlfriend got sick,bad. Before that she was jammin along through life,A listed and having lunch with our now PM,dustin? bustin? anyway she was sick and I put it upon myself to do what I could,she was in a bad way,couch bound,out of breath when walking,bad.So I started researching everything she was eating and drinking and bieng medicated with, and researched all of the indivual ingrediants and "add…

> when I interviened with my simple method,of removing things where there can be no (health/physiological) down side. Removing spaces after punctuation has the physiological downside of making my eye twitch.

ah do pologize fer that, havin as were my own twitch inducing triggers, hate to think of doing that to someone else

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Post by cchi_co »

toofy wrote: post #276
cchi_co wrote: post #154

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It's wild how something as simple as a coffee lid can become a point of scrutiny

it is. and it absolutely won’t be limited to coffee lids. when we don’t hold creators and sellers of products to any kind of real standard, they over and over and over will cut corners. we know this is a fact. when we don’t hold them responsible for the harms they directly or externally cause, we have to waste our fucking time scrutinizing ridiculous items like coffee lids. soon it will be each of the hundreds of ite…

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Re: Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

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Post by cchi_co »

cies wrote: post #219
cchi_co wrote: post #154

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It's wild how something as simple as a coffee lid can become a point of scrutiny

If we as a society leave "safety" to the producers, yes it is. It's bizarre to see how new chemicals are basically "allowed because they are new" (maybe except in food additives), and the producers are expected to do inhouse undisclosed self-testing without being held to any standard.

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Post by idiotsecant »

ethagnawl wrote: post #175
onnnon wrote: post #27

A lot of coffee makers run hot water over black plastics too.

It's admittedly been a while since I've looked but there don't seem to be any (automated) drip makers whose use doesn't result in plastic coming into contact with hot water. I'm well aware of and own many of the more manual options that don't have this issue. However, the automatic feature is killer (heh) and this seems like an obvious miss by manufacturers.

There's quite a few, actually. They're all commercial units that are expected to make hundreds of pots a day and stay cleanable and serviceable. Bunn, for example, makes a bunch of machines for which everything in the 'wet' service is stainless. By default they use a black plastic grounds holder but you can pay extra for a stainless one.

They're substantially more expensive than consumer units.

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Post by namibj »

GJim wrote: post #421
namibj wrote: post #294

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You can get an induction hob for 50 bucks at IKEA. So spending more than a 200 $ premium over a resistance stove with 4 hobs means you're being ripped off or spending on luxury.

One needs more than a single cheap induction hob to cook a family meal!

Hence getting the 200 $ total of 4 hobs as a premium to whatever the base standalone stove costs, assuming that you could in the factory just mount these units in the hobs. Just need to modify a little to have remote control as the original uses a microcontroller to handle the touch IO and the high frequency transistor triggering, which may both not work over a wire long enough to reach from the back hob to the front of the stove where you'd want the controls to be to not reach over or even in-between the hobs in operation.

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Post by nullstyle »

totallydang wrote: post #875
timr wrote: post #874

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> These so-called perfluorochemicals are toxic to humans at single-digit parts per trillion. No, they aren't. At least, not in the way you're interpreting the word "toxic". > If you live in the US, chances are your blood already contains these chemicals at 4,000 ppt or greater The fact that you're telling me that I'm currently thriving with 1000x the "toxic" dose you just quoted should tell you that at least one of t…

You are doing damage control for multinational chemical corporations. Why would you be worth listening to?

That isn't a response to your own crappy post, its a misdirection.
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