Posted by Larry Hoover on February 20, 2006, at 17:04:24 [reposted on February 27, 2006, at 18:06:53 | original URL]
In reply to also, food in plastic containers normal ovens??, posted by Meri-Tuuli on February 20, 2006, at 15:01:41
> Along the same lines, (this is something I have been wondering for a long while) how safe is it to put those shop bought ready meals which are in those plastic containers in the normal oven?? Obviously, the plastic doesn't melt or anything like that, but it seems abit dogdey to me! I mean, I still do it sometimes, but I might now start transferring the meal into a pyrex dish we have. From what I know as an ex science teacher, the plastic must be those 'thermosetting' kind, which doesn't melt, but still.....
The way I try to divide up things is to consider managing those factors that are in my control. I can control the placement of food in the microwave or conventional oven. I can ensure that it is in ceramic or glass, at the cost of one more dish to clean.
Same goes with the food itself. In my opinion, all food is contaminated with heavy metals and pesticides and dioxins and stuff, because we use Mother Earth like a dustbin. But that's largely out of my control, because I don't grow/harvest my own food. So, I select foods based on the good things they contain. What I select is in my control. What might sneak into my diet via the food I select is not. E.g. farmed fish is good for me, even though it might contain contaminants.
> I read somewhere that actually eating and drinking are more carcinogenic to humans than smoking but obviously we have to eat and drink!! Apparently things that are burnt are massive culprits, along with melted (when it goes bubbly brown) cheese.
It's interesting how that is, actually. The flavours that draw us into liking foods that are burnt obviously don't arise except under conditions manipulated by we smart human beings. First we had to harness fire. And then we had to create cheese from milk. So, how is it that nature draws us towards those toasted flavours? And yes, many of those flavour molecules are carcinogenic.
That's one reason that blood that passes through the digestive tract, picking up nutrients, also goes through the liver, before it gets to your body. There are molecules that your liver doesn't want your body to experience.
> To add my two cents to the microwave debate, an Editor of the 'journal of radiological protection' I worked with refused to own a microwave....
Hmmm. Seems extreme.
I remember when I first started discovering just how toxic some chemicals can be, and how we were being exposed to them. For a while there, there was nothing left to eat. Everything was contaminated. But I had to stand down from that position of vigilance. There's a pragmatic middle ground.
Lar
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