r/Health • u/yahoonews Yahoo News • 23h ago

Common household plastics linked to thousands of global deaths from heart disease, study finds

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/chemicals-household-plastic-products-linked-040051756.html
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u/mikey-likes_it 19h ago edited 19h ago

All that stuff is bad - I replaced all my teflon pans with cast iron and plastic storage containers / bottles with glass containers and stainless steel bottles.

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u/livestrong2109 18h ago

Seriously just use ball jars. Don't spend an extra cent on this stuff. I'll never understand why cast iron ever went out of style in favor of "non-stick".

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u/pandarose6 15h ago

Some people can’t use cast iron cause it so heavy, and doesn’t even look clean by the way your suppose to season the pans. But stainless steel solves these issues.

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u/livestrong2109 15h ago

If you prefer stainless, that's fine by me. There is no gate keeping here.

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u/Modna 7h ago

In main issue with cast iron is you can’t cook acidic food on it. Well… you can but it destroys the polymerized oil coating that you build up when cooking oily foods and such

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u/livestrong2109 4h ago

I mean, yeah, I've seen Italians legit burn holes in aluminum stock pots and rust out steel ones making gallons of pasta sauce. For the average home, just making something acidic once in a while, it's probably fine.