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> 1. Eating and drinking from plastics (This includes aluminum cans which are plastic lined) [a] So drinking containers should generally be ceramic, glass, or

• Knufen 4y ago
  Generally yes. Beware of drinking bottles made from stainless steel. A lot of them are lined with plastic to avoid the metallic taste.
• yamtaddle 4y ago
  I'd want to know that drinks aren't full of that stuff regardless of the end-user container material, before worrying about it. They're surely exposed to tons of plastics in the manufacturing process, including at times when various components are heated. Even water supplies in a house will typically have been in contact with plastics—at the treatment plant, in the house for any modern house (they're pretty much all PEX now, since it's stupid-easy and fast to install, which means it's very cheap), in the hot water heater if they're any hot water mixed in (ever start with a hot tap for water you're gonna boil?), if you've got a filter system that's almost certainly full of plastic, and so on. You'd also have to avoid canned goods of all kinds, not just bottled/canned drinks. Store-bought canned foods have plastic liners, which all but completely solved problems with canned-good spoilage that we used to have, but does mean ~all canned goods are sitting in plastic, not metal, effectively. Glass-canned might be better but are usually more expensive and there's still plastic on the inside of the lids (how much that matters, I do not know—I'd expect very little, but sometimes these things are surprising, for all I know those inside-the-lids bits use exceptionally awful plastic or something).
  • agentwiggles 4y ago
    > ever start with a hot tap for water you're gonna boil? I've been told I shouldn't do this, so I don't, but I always feel like a rube waiting for a big pot of pasta water to boil from cold when I know I could have just used my giant tank of heated water and save 10 minutes of waiting...
    • yamtaddle 4y ago
      Yeah, I don't either, but I'd be surprised if most people don't use the hot tap for stovetop-bound water.
    • anikom15 4y ago
      There’s always a chance that there’s a dead animal in your water heater
      • gambiting 4y ago
        I mean.....I don't know about elsewhere, but here in UK you just have a combi boiler, there's no storage.
        • anikom15 4y ago
          Anywhere with abundant natural gas (like America) will mostly have tank water heaters powered by gas.
      • yamtaddle 4y ago
        I'm torn between wanting more information, and preferring to live in blissful ignorance.
        • gambiting 4y ago
          In old houses if you had a hot water storage tank in the attic it was usually just covered with styrofoam or a metal or wooden slab, it wasn't uncommon for an occasional insect or yes, a small rodent to fall in and die in there. It's one of the reasons why most houses in the UK had separate cold and hot water taps - cold water was considered safe to drink, hot not so much. Nowadays if you have a hot water cylinder it's impossible for anything to get in there(although there is still a chance of bacteria growing inside the tank, but any modern cylinder will periodically heat itself to very high temperature to kill any pathogens)
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  • lm28469 4y ago
    > ever start with a hot tap for water you're gonna boil? Depending on your system this might have no impact, my hot and cold water come from the same place and the hot water is heated 1m away from my sink by an electrical heater
  • throw0101a 4y ago
    > (they're pretty much all PEX now, since it's stupid-easy and fast to install, which means it's very cheap) Also good in cold climates as they can stretch if the water expands after freezing: they'll shrink back to the original size (esp. PEX-A/Uponor) which may help reduce the chances of the house being flooded. Once copper bursts that hole is permanent.
• mauvehaus 4y ago
  Or titanium[0]. Neat fact about anodizing titanium: the colors are the result of the thickness of the resulting oxide layer and how it refracts different wavelengths of light[1]. [0] https://www.snowpeak.com/collections/drinkware/products/titanium-single-450-cup-mg-043 https://www.snowpeak.com/collections/drinkware/products/tita... There are many. This is my favorite. [1] https://chemistrytalk.org/titanium-anodizing/ https://chemistrytalk.org/titanium-anodizing/
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• mc32 4y ago
  Or leather water bottles as well.
  • floren 4y ago
    Do you know of any that don't have a liner of some sort? I'd be interested in trying one but wouldn't know where to get one.
    • mc32 4y ago
      I think Viking Dragon makes some handmade ones. Being handmade they are not cheap, but I wouldn't call them too expensive either.