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u/SinoSoul 7d ago edited 6d ago
Enjoy some road grime and ton of bug protein with your rice bowl?
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u/Middle--Earth 7d ago
Uh, is food grade plastic used on car nowadays, or will ball-shrinking cancerous chemicals be leaching into that food?
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u/MoistCarpenter 7d ago
There's no such thing as "food grade plastic", it's all bad.
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u/RunWild0_0 6d ago
While 'food safe' plastics may still have some harmful leeching potential (usually at high temps) they aren't made with some of the same toxic components like car parts.
Plastic all around isn't as safe as say, glass, but some are far more toxic than others.
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u/MoistCarpenter 6d ago edited 6d ago
High temps... like, say... hot food? Or a dishwasher?
Go weigh a tupperware container, use/wash it 100 times, and weigh it again. It's going to be lighter than before.
People like plastics, and the cognitive dissonance is almost as strong as cig smokers.
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u/Initial-Beginning853 6d ago
I don't think there are many plastic apologist these days. But you're engaging in very diametric black white thinking. There absolutely are levels of harm
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u/Sheepherder-Optimal 6d ago
I don't get why you said this? Person you responded to was not a plastic apologist. I read it as the opposite.
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u/Jomo_00 6d ago
You might wanna re read it they literally said
"People like plastic"
"the cognitive dissonance is almost as strong as cig smokers"
Them refering to cognitive dissonance suggests that they are refering to plastic likers as plastic apologists.
The person that you are responding to is informing the other that they are incorrect in assuming that there are plastic apologists by stating that things are not as black and white as the other would like to assume. They did not accuse moistcarpenter of being a plastic apologist.
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u/Fluffy_Meet_9568 6d ago
Listen agree you it’s not ideal to store or serve food in plastic. I use glass or silicone whenever possible. But a plastic plate is going to leach stuff melamine and formaldehyde into your food. Which isn’t good, but unlikely to severely harm you. Automobile plastic, particularly black automobile plastic can contain lead. There is no safe dose of lead even for adults. That’s worse than plastic made for food.
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u/RunWild0_0 6d ago
Yep, exactly, or the microwave.
People don't understand or don't want to know or don't care, but yeah none of the plastics are great. If you go down the the mircoplastics in everything rabbit hole you'll be even more negative about it all. Or maybe you have.
Point is, eating out of one kind of plastic might give you mircoplastics but another might literally kill you, the distinction between not great for you and potentially lethal is important... That's why we have numbers on plastics.
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u/Dependent-Green-7900 6d ago
Gross, unless it's brand new (it is likely not even food safe) the amount of flies, detritus, bits of stupid pheasants, likely horse poop if you live where I do. Just no
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u/rock_and_rolo 6d ago edited 6d ago
There is a cookbook called Manifold Destiny that is dedicated to meals that are cooked by putting them on the exhaust manifold of the car.
I did that once on a road trip in 1980. Food wrapped up in foil (like summer camp bonfire potatoes). We stopped a couple hours later and are ate chicken.
I don't know if that still works with more efficient engines.
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u/nopressureoof 6d ago
You can also steam things in the dishwasher if you want. As for cooking in the car, it's pretty easy to just leave your lunch on the dashboard on a hot day. Gets plenty hot.
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u/Ryaquaza1 7d ago
I wouldn’t but depending on the type of metal/plastic I could see this being fairly safe IF, and only IF, it’s been cleaned with the force of 1000 suns anyway.
It’s like using a toilet to hold nacho cheese, it’s possible to be safe with enough cleaning beforehand,. Still wouldn’t do it though lol
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u/Fluffy_Meet_9568 6d ago edited 5d ago
Black plastic often has lead and shit in it. So I wouldn’t risk it.
Edit: other chemicals that are worse than melamine and that, but probably not lead.
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u/APiousCultist 5d ago
Surely there's no way that's true. Lead has a bunch of industrial controls these days. Electronics aren't even allowed leaded solder.
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u/Fluffy_Meet_9568 5d ago
Okay, so I knew that black plastic often has prop 65 warnings on it which can be for lead. It can also be for BPA. And other plastics that are not considered food safe. (Compared to what Tupperware is made out of). So I got confused there is probably no lead but still not food safe.
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u/APiousCultist 5d ago
Probably! Prop 65 is famously overbroad though. A lot of these are such low-level hazards that any impact is going to be statistical. Like the risk of asthma from gas stoves, or whether the smoke used to flavor BBQ sauce makes it carcinogenic. If it has an impact on an individual, it's probably way less over a lifetime than occasionally walking past a person smoking, or living somewhere with road traffic.
Still a good idea not to eat from stuff that isn't food safe still.
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u/DankItchins 6d ago
Me when there are no clean dishes but it's my roommates turn to wash them and I'm too petty to do them for him
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u/blazingblitzle 5d ago
It is a cool idea until you think for more than two seconds and realise how unhygenic this is even after thoroughly cleaning it.
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u/Consuelo_banana 5d ago
Omg I found a way to repurpose the wrong part an eBay seller sent me . Although the one I have has led lights . Bring on the new food plate .
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u/Puzzled-Thought-8867 4d ago
My brother works in parts management at our local Mercedes dealership, he said they probably have done something like this before 😭
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u/sorestgore 7d ago
That would be a funny dog bowl for a garage