TheSaneWriterFor the Love of God, Stop Microwaving Plastic
xylogxTotally makes sense not to microwave plastics, why take the risk?
That said this article is alarmist. It states, “… The human health effects of plastic exposure are unclear…” then goes on to give a bunch scary quoyes to generate fear.
Respectfully disagree, I thought the tone was sufficiently concerning without being overly alarmist. I’ll stop microwaving plastics, which is a super easy lifestyle modification, until further research and evidence comes to light about this subject.
I stopped microwaving plastics back when the BPA mimicking hormones thing was first coming to light, knowing that the alternatives the corps switched to would just fall under “no evidence of danger at this point (because it is new or hasn’t been specifically studied)” rather than “proven safe”.
It wasn’t hard. I use glass dishes with plastic lids to store leftovers (so there’s an air gap between the plastic and the food, but now I am wondering if that’s enough or maybe I should get some bamboo lids for microwaving) and ceramic dishes for things I’m just making them.
And I avoid microwavable dinners, as even the paper ones have a layer of plastic to prevent leaking (which I wonder how necessary it is if the food is frozen immediately and kept frozen until heated up).
Maybe just transfer the contents of the microwave dinner into a glass bowl? Those microwave instructions can’t possibly be too crucial to the contents which are already going to be a bit sus to begin with. (That said, microwave food has come a LONG way in the last couple decades, real quietly too. I remember them being garbage when I was a kid but there’s some real good stuff out there now.)
Yeah, though another reason I generally avoid them is because I once worked in a factory that produced some of those paper packages and they are only as clean as how much the workers that handled them cared about keeping them. Which varies but often isn’t that much.