Re: 🎶 Get in That Kitchen and Rattle Those Pot and Pans 🎶 2/19/2025

fos@sdf.org wrote:
...plastics and sous vide not for me...

i've been working (mostly) in the plastics industry since the
early 1990s.

  i know some people who did a lot of injection moldings
of various kinds.  one of them developed a pretty bad
sensitivity and ended up getting switched into environmental
compliance.  he's now retired i think.

working in an industry which melts pelletized
plastic to squirt it in molds made an immediate impact on my
desire to ingest the stuff. i haven't cooked or reheated in
plastic since then, and i've even been having qualms lately
about freezing in it.

  i freeze a lot of things in glass if i can.  some
plastic containers we use now, but i'd rather not.

i'll tell ya what though, the gasses released from overheated
delrin / nylon give you one helluva a buzz. :)

  i have a lot of experience with various fumes and dusts
during my teen years as we had the family commercial
flooring business which did all sorts of different floors
in some industrial plants in the area.  i also did some
years of model railroading and electronics tinkering so
those too had their own things.

  life got a lot better when i went away to college and
i did not take chemistry (which was probably a good thing
for everyone :) )...

  now i try to avoid as much as possible.  bleach fumes
once in a while and some cleaning fumes.


  songbird