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]

I'll be in there tomorrow, I'll see if they have a masher.....which colour do you prefer, the blue, green or pink (more beige I think)?

[domino-710]

Stainless. 

[imastawka]

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@ambercat16 wrote:

I'll be in there tomorrow, I'll see if they have a masher.....which colour do you prefer, the blue, green or pink (more beige I think)?

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Thanks for the offer, Amber, but I think I prefer to see the design. I've had stainless and plastic ones (not black) before and haven't been happy with any of them.

I even bought a stainless ricer but found it too hard to use (weak girly arms, lol)

I'm sure they'll turn up here sometime soon.