Black Plastic Cooking Utensils

[imastawka]

Anyone using them?

Heads up - they're very bad news for your health.

I've binned all of mine (they're not recyclable)  and have replaced them with wooden or bamboo utensils.

Black plastics are more likely to contain unregulated amounts of toxic chemicals including heavy metals and flame retardants which can leach into food and pose a hazard to human health. In addition, black plastics are not recyclable due to their color.

The black color is created by adding a substance called carbon black to the plastic. Carbon black which contains numerous compounds, some of which like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have carcinogenic properties that have lead the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) to classify carbon black as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.”

It is not yet known if carbon black leaches out of black plastic containers into food during microwaving but we would not recommend microwaving food in any color of plastic container (see our fact sheet on microwaving plastics for more details.)

Why Black Plastic Is Bad News — Beyond Plastics - Working To End Single-Use Plastic Pollution

[ambercat16]

Not a river of excrement.....just a man made waterway that is 'far' away

[domino-710]

OK - still dumb here.

Can you explain without getting .................'d 🤣

[countessalmirena]

 far  _an_l

The issue would be a homonym.

[imastawka]

Jeepers Dom - let's hope this gets through...

Far........and then you add....... 'canal'

Say the two words quickly.

Didn't we go through all this on the Blokes thread many years ago?

[ambercat16]

......... careful Stawka😎

[domino-710]

LOL - I have not read the whole thread so got a bit lost.

Thanks guys.

Reminds me of that ' tribe ' . 🤣

[sandypebbles]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Well let the light from your outhouse shine on me 😆

[ambercat16]

Just found this in Woollies ......

......not wooden, but not black either.🧐  And they are on special at the moment.
There's a potato masher too and I think a serving spoon but none available when I was there.

[imastawka]

Nothing by that brand in Melbourne Woolies .

Or at least not in my online shopping - maybe in-store?

But I am interested in a potato masher.  Doing it with a fork in a bowl, just like mum did.  😄

They look silicone which is ok.....until they say it isn't!

[twyngwyn]

No steel mashers?