Throw out your black spatula
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Kettles, good grief, what a can of worms.
Britain, tea drinkers of something like 40billion cups annually do not manufacture a single electric kettle!Nearest non plastic electric kettle that's also not made in China appears to be (no not french or german...)
Italian.I'm tempted to get a traditional small hob kettle.
@AndyD I know. I finally settled for a Chinese made (mostly) glass electric kettle a couple of years ago when I retired my Simplex. The Chefman does have a black plastic lid that water condenses on and drips back down into the kettle, probably not a good thing.
I came close to incinerating the Simplex when I put water on to boil and then popped out to the back yard to take care of some gardening task or another. I'd be out there a little longer than expected and suddenly realize that the kettle was boiling dry. After the third near-miss I decided a kettle with auto-shutoff was probably a good idea. I still have the Simplex in the basement. Maybe I'll put it back to work, at least for the winter months when I'm mostly inside...
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I suppose hob kettles ideally need to whistle.
My replacement choices for our black plastic cylinder:
https://ottonifabbrica.com/en/3-kettles
(in cherry red)Who knew where a spatula thread could lead!
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Parchment papers don’t list their ingredients, so I can’t tell if the Kroger paper I’m using is going to kill me. But I don’t use it often.
I do have a couple of Silpat silicone baking sheets; I could start using them more. They never feel quite clean, though, even after soapy Dawn dishwashing.
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I believe all these materials and surfaces are dangerous as well as eating and drinking from anything made of plastic.
My Dr. was talking with me about this once and said-- "We all have so much stuff in us."
I think we were talking about radioactive substances used in medical testing.
I'd like to be but I'm not purist on this topic. I don't like plastic containers because they're near impossible to hand wash. On the other hand, if I want to drink water or cold tea in a plastic bottle then I do it.
Some synthetic material spatulas in my home have have been actually burned.
This is when I make an executive decision and put them in the garage.
When in doubt throw it out.
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The "black spatula" study's authors made a mistake and left out a zero, their results were off by an order of magnitude. The "black spatula" is still bad, but not as bad as originally portrayed.
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Yes, they multiplied 70 x 6,000 and got 42,000.
This is even worse than the paper that a bunch of us got retracted from a major dermatology journal.
The authors boldly claimed (based on simple correlations) that baldness raised the likelihood of severe Covid. They didn't bother to control for age in their regression. A bunch of us on Twitter raised a ruckus and the journal had to put a retraction notice on the paper, saying the result was "preliminary."
I didn't throw out my black plastic cookware, by the way.
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Yes, they multiplied 70 x 6,000 and got 42,000.
This is even worse than the paper that a bunch of us got retracted from a major dermatology journal.
The authors boldly claimed (based on simple correlations) that baldness raised the likelihood of severe Covid. They didn't bother to control for age in their regression. A bunch of us on Twitter raised a ruckus and the journal had to put a retraction notice on the paper, saying the result was "preliminary."
I didn't throw out my black plastic cookware, by the way.
@Piano-Dad said in Throw out your black spatula:
I didn't throw out my black plastic cookware, by the way.
Neither did I.
When the popular media started reporting on the study, I tried to read the study in the journal but hit a paywall. I had a sneaking suspicion it wasn't the fiasco it was being made out to be. The article @Axtremus posted did a great job of summarizing the study methodology and results, much better than anything I'd read previously. After reading the AT article this morning, I was underwhelmed by the original results. Add this correction....meh....
My friend tossed all her utensils immediately after reading the news articles a few weeks ago. Her response this morning after reading the Ars Technica article:
Oh my. And I threw away and replaced all with silicone ones that spot badly in dishwasher and need to be washed by hand. Drives me crazy. I was just complaining about this last night.
Geeze
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We only have one black spatula. I’m sure it’s worth no more than 99 cents. I will not mind chucking it and buying a non-black one for 99 cents.
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