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Edit: I decided to throw it out and order a new stainless steel one that's all one piece. Thanks for the help!

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[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 94 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I strongly recommend NO glue and liberal use of your TRASH CAN. Then go get a cast iron frying pan and a METAL flip turner.

Do this so you do not die a horrible micro plastic PFOS death one day.

Best!

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 45 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I already have cast iron pots and pans, but you make a good point. I'm going stainless steel!

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

At least upgrade to silicone. I'm baffled that cooking utensils even come in nylon. Options should only be metal, wood, silicone if intended to use near heat.

[–] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago

The Weekly Pellet is a website for people in the plastics industry.

Here's a site focused on people in the food industry:
https://www.chefsresource.com/is-nylon-food-safe/

Nylon is considered food safe while it is in good condition, but not if it has been damaged or used at temperatures higher than what it is rated for. If you cook at max on your stove top, you can exceed the safe temperature of Nylon very easily.
https://chefreader.com/how-hot-does-a-frying-pan-get/

[–] notapantsday@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago

Nylon can be washed in the dishwasher, but in my experience it does degrade a bit over time. Silicone on the other hand tends to absorb any smell or taste, including dish washing detergent.

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

These types of plastic spatulas tend to be recycled plastic. Which....you'd usually be all like "Oh, that's great!"

WRONG! Unfortunately it means you're getting an unknown exposure level of forever chemicals and there's rarely any oversight on what types of plastics are put into these. So it's worse than just cooking with plastics. It's cooking with an amalgam of unknown plastics that may be putting a huge amount of chemicals into your food.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 months ago

Le Crueset makes a fantastic spatula, solid piece of metal, no glues/adhesives holding it together. Comes in either a metal blade or silicone coated one.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

Rada makes some pretty decent metal spatulas if you want specific recommendations.

The blade part is way thinner than plastic spatulas. Now that I'm used to the stainless steel ones, I feel clumsy and inept when I have to use someone else's nylon spatula.

[–] pendulum_@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Instructions unclear, trash can now wedged into my dishwasher and a pipe burst behind it

At least you didn't do something unspeakable to an innocent ceiling fan.

[–] Vlyn@lemmy.zip -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

News flash: Even if they do that, your body is already full of microplastics as it's in your food. So not sure if this is going to help even one bit :)

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

This is 100% accurate.