I don’t know about y’all, but between food quality and food prices I’m basically vegetarian nowadays. (TikTok screencap)
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That's silicon
You mean silicone?
And no, it's plastic. If they're cheap ones they're usually a wonderful combination of assorted plastics that happened to be at the Chinese recycling plant that day.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-plastics-cooking-utensils-flame-retardants_l_673ca44ce4b07493607ab2ee
It's funny how you try to state fact then follow up with uncertainty.
Expanding on information for a subset is definitely not the same as contradicting it.
No, I actually know those kitchen tongs, they are silicone. Have you seen kitchen tongs that look exactly like those, and have felt them to be plastic? Unless you did, they are 100% silicone.
Also let's not forget that the authors of that study were off by a factor of 10: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/black-plastic
Yeah. Even with the amended study their recommendation is avoiding them like the plague as any amount of pthalates and fire retardants in your food is too much.
You know that exact pair?
You took this photo? I see black plastic ones often in shops. Example: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/235276456186
You'll note that nylon is a type of plastic.
Further, cooking with silicone is also very likely bad for your health so this is a really odd argument.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389425025105