How harmful is burning plastic near food?
The following happened:
I was cooking a chickpea curry with rice in the kitchen earlier, and only after the meal was ready did I notice that there was a piece of plastic on one of the stovetop burners. I have no idea how this piece of plastic got there. In any case, it was a small rectangular piece of plastic from the packaging of a tofu. Since the curry and rice were left open on the stovetop the whole time, and the steam from the plastic could have gotten into the food, I don't know if it would be a good or safe idea to eat the food. Does anyone know how dangerous, or even harmless, this situation is? And if so, what the consequences could be.
Aren't dioxins highly toxic? The plastic vapor rose right next to and above my food. I'm afraid the food is now practically poisonous.
Thanks in advance for the answers!
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You have probably already inhaled much more of the vapours than you will find in the food.
Steam also has the property of being gaseous. Hot gas rises. Your food was also hot and simmered, so steam has risen here too. Very bad conditions to contaminate your food with the plastic. It would be just too negligent traces anyway.
Thank you. I let myself be insecure by dr google, because then dioxins talk. So sometimes the most toxic substance for us humans. That’s why I got a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a bit of a bit to eat. But you mean it’s completely safe?
I’d eat it without care.
You seem to have a mental problem. Everywhere there are pollutants in the environment. It’s normal and barely avoidable. This is exactly the case with public transport participation. He’s potentially deadly. But the likelihood of getting sick or evaporating is, of course, relatively low. In addition to the risk to be assumed, one must always consider the probability of entering. And this is practically zero in your description. Health hazard: absolutely zero!. A few grams of plastic that melt on a hob are simply negligible.
Thanks for the answer! Have eaten in every case, the answers have calmed me. I’m not paranoid, but when I looked on the Internet, I’ve read some very dramatic statements about it, and they’ve made me insecure… Google stop 😅 but to undermine me a psychic problem I already find quite presumptuous 😂
There will be no acute consequences. I would still eat it, except it smells active after burnt plastic – then some of it has deposited on it. However, it would not be poisonous or something.
Call a lot of ambulances (for all those present) immediately!
We are already all full of microplastics that will make the cabbage no longer fat
The pollutants are so low that you don’t have to worry about eating negatively. Stay cool and good appetite! LG
You can eat it without a doubt. Because you just had it on the herd plate.
But what about the toxins from the steam? I’m sure he’ll be able to settle in food. I don’t know
Your concerns are disproportionate.