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Cooking items in your home are linked to cancer-causing chemicals
- phero_cnstrcts 2y ago[flagged]
- nerdjon 2y agoThe ads on this site are horrendous. At one point I had a video ad pop up that I could not close and I had to refresh the page.
- unnouinceput 2y agowhat ads? I don't see a single ad there. Are you using chrome by any chance? Cause I use Firefox with uBlock Origin and had no problem browsing the site without seeing a single ad.
- bryankaplan 2y agoWhy is this comment downvoted? I also saw no ads, using Firefox Mobile with uBlock Origin and NextDNS.
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- robenkleene 2y agoI usually enable reader view when I see these popups, which usually works to get around them (including in this case).
- tbeseda 2y agothis helps https://archive.li/kebfx https://archive.li/kebfx
- ranger_danger 2y agouBO is blocking all the ads without such a message for me
- mmh0000 2y agoI'm assuming you're using ublock-origin, if so, ensure you have these filters enabled: EasyList EasyList – Cookie Notices EasyPrivacy Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list uBlock filters – Ads uBlock filters – Privacy uBlock filters – Unbreak
- OptionOfT 2y agoJust the same as all the recommendations. I think you mean pixels you've sold to the highest bidders. Recommendations and perks are some of the most misused words in the 21st century.
- timeon 2y ago> disable your ad blocker before continuing I read it as: disable JavaScript before continuing.
- portaouflop 2y agoWhat a shitty website, completely unusable for me if it weren’t for reader mode. I sometimes wonder how people can stand this and even think it would be a good idea to share such websites (regardless of the actual content)
- unnouinceput 2y agoI guess you don't have uBlock Origin
- portaouflop 2y agoYes I don’t have it on my phone, since Apple says no :(
- mmh0000 2y agoPlease allow me to improve your life: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-adblock-privacy/id1047223162 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-adblock-privacy/id1047... https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hush-nag-blocker/id1544743900 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hush-nag-blocker/id1544743900
- portaouflop 2y agoThanks ! AdGuard doesn’t really do much for me (maybe I need the paid version? Or use another browser not FF?) I’ll try out the hush one, looks promising!
- mmh0000 2y agoYou may want to ensure you have adguard setup correctly. I don't remember the exact steps the app tells you, but you have to go into Safari settings and manually turn a bunch of crap on. For me, on my iOS devices, adguard blocks every ad. always. Then hush kills off all the annoying "cookie notices" and a lot of "your using an adblocker" nonsense.
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- Dalewyn 2y ago[flagged]
- i80and 2y agoThis is about flame retardants, some of which are outright supposed to be banned. They're not pleasant compounds
- Dalewyn 2y agoJust glancing around my room, black plastics are in: All my monitors, all of my computer cases, a pair of speakers, my headphones, my microphone, all my mice, all my keyboards, my phone, my tablet, my laptop, my router, all my USB hubs, a USB audio DAC, a small tabletop shelf, my emergency flashlight, remote control for my room heater, my circulator fan on the floor, innumerable power bricks and wall warts... Black plastic is known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm. This is literally worthless junkformation to me.
- llamaimperative 2y agoVictorian era London: "Just inhaling the air I can taste all sorts of particulate that people say is 'bad for you.' Knowing that it's bad is literally worthless junkformation." While you are relatively powerless to prevent exposure to these compounds, you actually can advocate for stronger controls on them at the societal level. Not sure if you've noticed but we do indeed have a fertility crisis, and there's good reason to suspect compounds like these and the fatalistic Laissez-Faire attitude toward them hold a substantial amount of the blame. Unless of course the leap you're really making is from "this fact is inconvenient" to "this fact is therefore false."
- greybox 2y agoThis is why people stopped putting Arsenic in expensive wallpaper. But I guess people would have considered that worthless junk information in Victorian times too
- jareklupinski 2y agowith cheap lab-grown diamonds on the horizon, how soon until i can replace/coat everything that comes into contact with me in pure diamond? personally think diamond-tipped chopsticks to be the end-game utensil not just coated with small diamonds on the tip: an actual huge single diamond on the end of each stick
- bastawhiz 2y agoDiamond tipped? Just make the whole chopstick out of diamond. One long diamond. "The hardest chopsticks you'll ever use"
- marliechiller 2y agoSadly, diamond is pretty brittle :(
- ZiiS 2y agoWhat are you doing with your chopsticks?
- mmh0000 2y agohttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/TGxBLBUC_VU https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TGxBLBUC_VU
- bastawhiz 2y agoI've never used one of those compostable forks made from potatoes without it snapping in half or leaving a broken tine in my mouth, yet they still seem to sell. Make the diamond chopsticks single use and they'll sell like hotcakes!
- goosejuice 2y agoDiamonds don't seem compatible with teeth and the digestive tract. I wouldn't use that if it was free.
- tourmalinetaco 2y agoTl;dr cheap plastic is cheap and contains cancer This is why I store everything in glass or metal and mostly use metal, silicone, or sometimes wooden utensils, especially when in contact with heat. I specifically attempt to minimize waste plastic and while I reuse the bromine-containing black plastics, I don’t store anything acidic or hot in them, mostly dry goods. However, if even contact with them can lead to exposure (as this article suggests) then I may start storing them away rather than reuse them or recycle them. If I can’t reduce the initial supply, I can at least reduce the recycled supply.
- etrautmann 2y agoSomething I don’t understand is why if silicone is also an oil derived product, does it not leach chemicals like other petrochemical polymers?
- mikeyouse 2y agoThe short answer is that it does leach chemicals - but at much higher temperatures and longer exposure times compared to plastic. It’s just much more chemically stable, but to your question, everything breaks down at some point.
- BadHumans 2y agoIt does. Silicone is not as inert as people keep saying it is. https://lifewithoutplastic.com/silicone/ https://lifewithoutplastic.com/silicone/
- hammock 2y agoSilicone can also be divided into two types based on curing process used. The cheapest process is peroxide-cured. This creates dichlorobenzene and PCBs byproducts which can leach into your food/etc. The more expensive process is platinum-cured, which is cleaner and does not have the same byproduct risk. Some makers are transparent about using platinum-cured silicone. Hard to find though more info: https://www.bumkins.com/pages/all-about-silicone https://www.bumkins.com/pages/all-about-silicone
- jpm_sd 2y agoReplace your plastic utensils and delicate nonstick cookware with metal spatulas, wooden spoons and cast iron pans. Problem solved!
- nemo44x 2y agoYou can't, or rather shouldn't generally, cook acidic foods in cast iron pans. Plus cast iron is really poor to use for many types of cooking since they don't react to changes in heat. Saying that it's good to have one around for occasional things. I like enameled cast iron dutch ovens, etc.
- barbazoo 2y agoWe use our cast iron pans for close to 100% of our ("frying pan") cooking, I'd say it works great.
- nemo44x 2y agoIt’s great if you’re not precise and just want big sears or w/e. That’s fine for certain things. And anything acidic leeches so it tastes metallic. I think once you learn to cook the limits of cast iron become clear. Great for certain things but impossible for many others. Compare to say a thick copper sauté pan and it’s a world of difference in temperature control. The pan changes temp as soon as you turn the gas up or down, etc.
- polalavik 2y agoCarbon steel pans / stainless steel pans are also an option. Switched to carbon steel a couple years ago and haven’t looked back. Sometimes it’s a little more difficult, but once you get the technique down it’s as easy as non stick. It’s also cool to know the pan will work for decades to come. Non stick pans inevitable start breaking down and just become toxic trash.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 2y agoIf you're not averse to high prices, copper pans are available too. Though a full set seems like it'd set you back $5000 or more. I've got a few from estate sales and other places for just a couple bucks, but there's only like 3 or 4 places in the United States to get them retinned, and they all want $120+ per pan (and that's with shipping it twice where they could get stolen, lost, or crushed). Half-tempted to try to do it myself. What's a few ounces of tin cost? The fiberglass glove's not that expensive. Afraid of screwing it up somehow though.
- elchief 2y agothe stainless steel utensils at ikea are quite reasonably priced and last for decades
- Ekaros 2y agoI am starting to wonder if it is worth it to try to avoid cancer at this point. Outside the most obvious risks like tobacco...
- sebazzz 2y agoCancer is a bit like a lottery, except you don’t want to win. Every time you smoke you buy several tickets, and buy a little extra chance to get cancer. Maybe with plastic cooking items you also buy some tickets, but far less than if you smoke. In other words: You have some choice. And it is a lottery at the end. There are people who smoke a lot and get to be old and never have cancer. And ultra-healthy people who die of cancer in their 20s.
- cjs_ac 2y agoThere comes a point where the cumulative time needed to avoid the carcinogen exceeds the expected increase in lifespan
- Ekaros 2y agoAlso the enjoyment. Which I enjoy more for example cured meats for rest of my life, or the extension of that life without them...
- tharkun__ 2y agoI always wonder what kinds of cured meats they're checking as well. Do they throw them all in the same category? Would there be a difference between what is done commercially today vs what you might have gotten at the local butcher 50-100 years ago? I remember eating Salami with the white mold coating on it. Like you'd get if you made it yourself. Then I got some commercial 3 kinds of salami package at Costco recently and while it looked awesome from the outside it turned out the white coating was inedible plastic you're supposed to remove before eating. No telling what else they changed over "real salami". I bet a lot of it is just to make it look and taste like the equivalent kind of salami.
- llamaimperative 2y ago
- ranger_danger 2y ago> ...black-colored plastic... might contain potentially cancerous chemicals due to slip-ups in recycling practices