Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula

Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula by CalRobert on Thursday October 31, 2024 @08:40AM (#42006293)

Sure, but this is pretty low hanging fruit. Moving to only metal and wood spatulas, cooking spoons, etc. has been a pretty cheap and easy switch. I would love to ALSO see regulation, but in the meantime I can at least improve things for myself.

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Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula by jrmg on Thursday October 31, 2024 @10:08AM (#42007081)

Those are either going to (metal) scratch my non-stick pans, which I’m also told (on scant evidence I believe) causes cancer, or they’re (wood) going to be inflexible and hard to wash (can’t dishwasher them), which is inconvenient.

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Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula by NoGravitas on Thursday October 31, 2024 @12:06PM (#42008248)

Putting wooden spatulas in the dishwasher shortens their life, but it doesn't destroy them straight away. I don't feel bad at all about putting cheap wooden cookware in the dishwasher. And, of course, if you're using non-stick pans, worrying about black plastic is a mote/beam kind of situation.

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Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula by kristjansson on Thursday October 31, 2024 @12:33PM (#42008509)

> shortens their life

I'm not even sure it does that. My cheapo wood spoons/turners/spatulas get dishwashed ~every time they're used, and they're 10? years old at this point. One finally cracked a few years ago but the rest are going strong.

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Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula by CalRobert on Friday November 01, 2024 @06:18AM (#42015529)

Well, I stopped using non-stick years ago (though I have a waffle iron which I suppose has a non stick coating) and haven't missed it.

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Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula by wafflemaker on Friday November 01, 2024 @05:19PM (#42021650)

There is plenty non stick that doesn't contain teflon. Like ScanPan CTX.

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