Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula
by ikiris on Thursday October 31, 2024 @02:31AM
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What? Unless you have haemochromatosis this is really tinfoilery over the iron levels acquired through natural ingestion, especially the thought of leach levels from a pan. You get more iron from meat or a bowl of cereal than you could ever get from a pan without it being flat out dissolved in the process over the course of a handful of cooks.
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Is the iron that leaches from pan even bio-available? Aren't supplements very specific compounds? I can admit that it might be toxic, but that toxicity is not due to something like over production of haemoglobin...
Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula
by dmurray on Thursday October 31, 2024 @03:57AM
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Iron filings (mostly elemental iron with some iron oxides) are used as supplements, so definitely bio-available.
But to get enough iron out of a pan to even match a single bowl of cereal you'd have to use a grinder.
Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula
by dmurray on Thursday October 31, 2024 @01:11PM
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Cereals run around 5 mg iron for a bowl [0].
A pan is about 1 kg (a good cast iron one could be much heavier). That's enough for 200,000 bowls of cereal.
Even if you reckon the pan is degraded enough to be obviously useless after losing 5% of its weight, that would require you to use it every day for 30 years, not "a handful of cooks".
[0] https://www.haemochromatosis.org.uk/breakfast-cereals-and-th...