Banish plastic from your kitchen

12 Responses to Banish plastic from your kitchen

1. Gene | May 25, 2012 at 8:29 am | Reply

   As if glass or steel did not leach “chemicals”. And parchment paper? You must be kidding me.

   Picture an industrial chemist submitting the analysis of orange or banana peel to FDA for approval as food container material. He’d be seized as a terrorist.

   • Gamecock | May 25, 2012 at 8:36 am | Reply

     Ahhh . . . yes! Reminds me of squeezing orange peel into a candle flame. An interesting experiment, laddie!

2. Ben of Houston | May 25, 2012 at 9:06 am | Reply

   Editor, do you still have that Apple picture somewhere? I think that’s appropriate.

   Also, the number one historical method for lead injestion is pewter plates, utensils, and piping.

3. MT Geoff | May 25, 2012 at 9:47 am | Reply

   I remember reading an article about a family that used a ceramic pitcher for juices. Turns out the glaze had enough lead — leachable lead — to cause moderate lead poisoning for the whole gang. Our friend’s idea that glass, metal and ceramic can’t leach is a farce.
   Gene, I love the ice cream whose ingredients are milk, cream, strawberries and sugar. Of those items, the only one that is chemically simple is — sugar.

4. techgm | May 25, 2012 at 1:38 pm | Reply

   Don’t forget the dioxin in Ben & Jerry’s.

5. woodNfish | May 25, 2012 at 4:03 pm | Reply

   The author of that article is an idiot. I would have told her that on her site, but I did not want to register to do it. Besides, you can’t cure stupid.

   Personally, I love plastic. I switched over all my cutting boards to plastic because I can stick them in the dishwasher. Plastic – great stuff and as long as stupid people don’t want it that means more for me!

6. Thomas C. Brown | May 25, 2012 at 4:07 pm | Reply

   In 28 years with FDA in the field and eventually as Chief of the Branch that was in charge of pre-market approval for food packaging, I never saw one verifiable injury from a substance leaching from plastic. Plastics are probably the most over-regulated materials under FDA. However, FDA file contain countless injuries from lead and uranium coated ceramics. If the author thinks that nothing migrates from glass she needs to keep her day job.

   T. Brown

   • Ben of Houston | May 26, 2012 at 11:07 pm | Reply

     Mr. Brown, can you please submit this post in an official letter to the editor. Your credentials lend the weight that I can’t give as a mere engineer, even if my signature didn’t have big oil behind it.

7. Alice Cheshire | May 25, 2012 at 8:57 pm | Reply

   I run my wooden cutting boards through the dishwasher, as well as the plastic ones. One is 28 years old and doing fine (wooden one). Also, for someone writing about changes from plastic, her claim that lettuce needs a plastic bag is totally wrong. I’ve used a terry cloth “salad sac” for several years. It keeps the lettuce fresh for a very long time. I switched because I got tired of the lettuce turning mushy in the fridge, not because I fear plastic.

   • Ben of Houston | May 26, 2012 at 10:26 pm | Reply

     Thanks for the tip, Alice

8. YourEx | May 26, 2012 at 3:11 am | Reply

   To quote a ’60s song… “Paranoia strikes deep. Into your life it will creep.”

   • RichW | May 26, 2012 at 7:41 pm | Reply

     Wait a minute – isn’t one of the side effects of long term illicit drug use – paranoia? I think we’ve got a winner.

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