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Anybody close to just giving up at this point?
by iab 5y ago
Anybody close to just giving up at this point?
- DeWilde 5y agoIn the worst case, we're left with air-frying as a healthy way of cooking.
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- quantified 5y agoCast iron FTW. Haven’t checked if an enamel dutch oven is naughty or nice. Slow cooker’s pottery glaze is unknown.
- anonporridge 5y agoThis. We literally take iron as a supplement because it's an essential mineral for the body. K.I.S.S.
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- s5300 5y agoObligatory cereal-iron extraction https://youtu.be/NHqN-Be5nlU https://youtu.be/NHqN-Be5nlU
- Johnny555 5y agoI think only pre-menopausal women should routinely take iron supplements. Men run the risk of getting to much iron.
- astrange 5y agoOnly for anemic women. Iron is mainly poisonous otherwise, especially for men or people with a history of hemochromatosis (ie British people). That's why multivitamins have separate ones "for women", everyone else just increases their risk of colon cancer.
- carabiner 5y agoWhy not carbon steel? It's lighter and just as durable, that's why it's used in restaurant kitchens.
- kragen 5y agoIt rusts if you leave it damp, and the rust is porous and consequently impossible to keep clean; you have to scrub it off or remove it with acid. Restaurant kitchens wash and scrub their pots constantly but they also use a lot of stainless steel.
- odonnellryan 5y agocast iron has the same problem
- kragen 5y agoThat's true, you have to keep it well seasoned to prevent it from rusting. Can you do that with carbon steel? I'd think the surface chemistry would be about the same, so maybe? Does the greater flexibility of the thinner cookware make the seasoning flake off?
- qbasic_forever 5y agoYes carbon steel cookware is seasoned almost exactly the same as cast iron. Although it's sometimes thinner, it's still quite dense and heavy cookware that's comparable to cast iron stuff in use and seasoning lifetime in my experience. It cooks just as fantastically well too--I love carbon steel pans.
- kragen 5y agoThanks!
- ummonk 5y agoCarbon steel is the same as cast iron, just less brittle due to lower carbon content. They sometimes make it thinner (doesn't have to be as thick since it's not cast), but there is plenty of thick carbon steel cookware out there too.
- ummonk 5y agoWith cast iron or carbon steel you're getting bits of polymerized oil (i.e. seasoning) in your food.
- vernie 5y agoDon't worry too much, all this stuff will take a few years off your life on average and those years would've sucked anyway.
- throwaway894345 5y agoHow many years are shaved off by worrying about all of the things that shave off a few years?
- vernie 5y agoI meant all of this stuff, in aggregate.
- throwaway894345 5y agoI was making a lame joke.
- gilrain 5y agoThis is ageism which assumes that the elderly are in constant misery and would rather be, or be better off, dead. You’re wrong. When you are older you will realize that life is worth living at every age, and you will hope the young don’t treat you too badly in their ignorance.
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- ciphol 5y agoThey'll also make you start having "old age" diseases at a younger age, on average.
- jotm 5y agoWhat's the point? Whether you just give up or try to go on, you die anyway. Might as well not give up :D
- freeflight 5y agoThis isn't really "new news", it's been a known thing for a while [0] Personally became aware of it when looking for camping cookware; Stainless steel or aluminum are very good materials for pots taken on trip, they sturdy but not too heavy, tho have this issue of not being good for anything acidic due to the increased leeching. [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1514841/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1514841/
- blarg1 5y agoYep I'm going back to my mercury and lead alloy pot.
- riversflow 5y agoReminds me of one of my personal heros, Bruce Ames[1] who invented the Ames test, a relatively cheap biological assay that tests for mutagenicity[2]. Essentially it turns out that tons and tons of stuff, both synthetic and natural is mutagenic to some degree, but we tend to think about it as a binary instead of a spectrum. His argument was that some things that are technically mutagenic, like pesticides and fire retardants have a net benefit in spite of this(e.g. pesticides make a better diet more financially attainable which has a bigger impact on public health than a very small increase in the base rate of cancer), but we lump them all together. It's why California's Prop 65 is just completely stupid; we lump fairly benign things like coffee and wine in with things like asbestos. The quote I always think of is, "if you have thousands of hypothetical risks that you are supposed to pay attention to, that completely drives out the major risks you should be aware of." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Ames https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Ames [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_test
- hedora 5y agoFire retardants are a net negative for public safety. Consumer protection groups, furniture manufacturers, and fire fighters all banded together to eliminate California's requirements for them. It still took over a decade. During that time, the fire retardant manufacturers were literally the only group that supported using them.
- iab 5y agoThat’s some interesting stuff, thanks
- dylan604 5y agoYup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30622479 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30622479
- emmelaich 5y ago:-) Maybe you shouldn't read how new buildings poison you with radioactive gas. https://www.epa.gov/radtown/natural-radioactivity-building-materials https://www.epa.gov/radtown/natural-radioactivity-building-m...