chapotraphouse @hexbear.net laziestflagellant [they/them] @hexbear.net 11 mo. ago

Sorry LIBERALS but if a FOOD CONTAINER can't handle going in the DISHWASHER maybe you SHOULDN'T MAKE IT

no but seriously though

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I eat the raw ingredients and cook it in my stomach
- Alpha owl
- do you also drink boiling water like mr bean making coffee in his mouth?
Also if you're making a thing that is meant to contain warm food, it needs to be safe to put in the microwave. Not just safe, it needs the handles to not become literally molten lava just from spending 30 seconds in there.
- I’ve got these corningware (rip) grab-it containers that are ceramic with a little ear/tab so you can hold it without burning yourself
The trick is to STOP PUTTING YOUR FOOD IN PLASTIC! Glass storage containers aren't much more expensive than Tupperware (and when on sale are cheaper)
- Glass and stainless steel for storage
  
  caramic plates/bowls for food and glass...glasses for drinks
  
  That's how I roll. And all of it can safely roll through the dishwasher.
  
  I started using stainless steel (some type made for food/drink) like 6 years ago or something and it's been pretty great for taste. the previous plastic bottle I was using would taste like shit and need cleaned constantly. the metal is fine for weeks if not months.... not that I would drink from the same uncleaned bottle for months... cough
  
  Just don't use plastic with food. Everything else lasts longer, is more durable in terms of not self-destructing or being ruined by contact with food or the act of cooking it, and you won't have as many microplastics in your life.
  
  Yes, a significant source of microplastics in people's diets is from containers. Tupperware, sandwich ziplocks, the packaging it comes in. Buy, cook, and store stuff in glass, wood, metal, or paper, and you can nearly halve your microplastic intake.
  
  Metal for drinks is great. Don't have to worry about them shattering if I drop them or dog knocks them off something
- what flavorless mayo shit is this? how would you get the microplastic seasoning into the food then, smart guy?
  
  The advantage is that you can control the amount of microplastics and balance it with the other seasonings to make a better tasting dish. Kind of like how chefs always use unsalted butter and add the salt themselves.
- I like glass, but a lot of it comes with plastic lids that crack easily. Then I have to put it in a plastic bag while taking it to work.
  
  Try the ones with bamboo lids, they're usually replaceable (and are generally parametric to even sizes if for some terrifying reason you wanted to 3d print lids and had a food safe 3d printer)
Copper will oxidize in the dishwasher and turn green. Copper-oxide is very toxic, so doing so is unsafe.
- Imagine having to worry about your pan poisoning you just from trying to wash it
  
  This post made by stainless steel pan gang
  
  In my defence I didn't realize my pan was sentient, hates baths, and is very vindictive.
- ceramics exist so you don't need to worry about heavy metal poisoning
- I mean you're probably not using copper pans unless you're a fancy chef anyway
  
  And if you go to most stores and buy a pot or pan they advertise as "copper", then you're literally just buying something with copper-colored non-stick coating, and it is not actually made of the metal we commonly call copper. Dumb shit.
- You can put cast iron in the dishwasher once or twice, as a treat
  
  But you'll be re-seasoning afterwards
  
  Yet there's no need. Washing a cast-iron pan takes no more than 20 seconds, even after cooking sticky messy foods :)
- Best I can see when searching, green copper oxide is basically inert biologically. Plenty of complaints about the toxicity of nanoparticles, but that's a whole other game.
  
  huh
  
  i've heard many times that something about copper in dishwashers is unsafe, just assumed it was the copper oxide
Can they just make Tupperware orange already? I'm tired of doing all the hard work myself.
- LMAO real talk though why do they all turn that color over time? Are tomatoes just too powerful or something?
  
  I guess lycopene in tomatoes is hydrophobic and the plastic is also hydrophobic so double super powers causes the Tupperware to resist soap and stuff?
  
  Link: https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/why-does-bolognese-sauce-stain-my-plastic-containers
  
  Italian Kryptonite for Tupperware
  
  God damn it now I gotta look it up...
there's nothing wrong with stainless steel cookware
Agree'd, return to Superfest
Well, if a garment can't handle tumble drying, too bad. I'm not starting a separate cycle just for those special snowflake trousers.

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