Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula

Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula by dmurray on Thursday October 31, 2024 @03:57AM (#42004404)

Iron filings (mostly elemental iron with some iron oxides) are used as supplements, so definitely bio-available.

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Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula by ikiris on Thursday October 31, 2024 @11:51AM (#42008094)

But to get enough iron out of a pan to even match a single bowl of cereal you'd have to use a grinder.

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Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula by dmurray on Thursday October 31, 2024 @01:11PM (#42008911)

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...

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