🔗 Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula
by
James
But getting rid of black plastic kitchen utensils is a low-stakes move, and worth it. Cooking with any plastic is a dubious enterprise, because heat encourages potentially harmful plastic compounds to migrate out of the polymers and potentially into the food. But, as Andrew Turner, a biochemist at the University of Plymouth
I had no idea black plastic was often made from recycled e-waste and often includes flame retardants from it. Turns out, simple materials we’ve been using since forever are superior. That tracks.