Microwaving plastic containers is one of those things that US people collectively decide to pretend is safe, but it’s clearly not.
It’s fiiiiiiiine
Which is why the incidence of weird internal medical issues is the US is nonexistennnnnnnnnnnnnnt
I’m from the “drink from the hose no seat belt smoke cigarettes” generation, and I still don’t want to eat any microplastics that I can easily avoid. Does that make me weird or something?
Honest question, how do you heat up things at work? The only time I use plastic is for bringing lunch but the only alternative I can think of is glass which is a lot more fragile, heavy and usually has a plastic lid anyways
Transfer the food to a ceramic plate then microwave it is usually my answer. At times I’ve used the strategy of just banging a plate from home into my lunch bag to accompany the plastic-packed lunch which will later get heated up.
I have glass containers that come in a few different sizes. They come with shitty lids, but for a few bucks you can get some nice silicone lids. Probably not good to microwave silicone either (I don’t know), but it’s just the lid.
you were never supposed to microwave it. you add boiling water so you microwave the water and then add it to the container.
Yeah I mean, you’re not supposed to microwave Styrofoam. Y’all haven’t been eating them like that right?? You’re just supposed to boil water and pour it in.
Paywalled
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Our definition of cooking is not the same.
Everyone starts somewhere. ;)
This is the best summary I could come up with:
And so when Cup Noodles, the Nissin Foods brand particularly popular because it comes in its own serving vessel, recently announced that it was changing its long-standing packaging to be microwave-safe, many fans might have paused mid-slurp.
Part of the appeal of the Cup Noodles, as opposed to those plastic-wrapped packages with the little aluminum seasoning pouches, was their portability and no-fuss prep — you could throw one in your bag to eat in the break room at work or make one in the dorm, late-night.
“So I’ve been cooking these things wrong the entire time and no one ever told me?” said a woman named Reba Lasha in a video from earlier this year in which she customizes the dish by dumping a bag of Cheetos into it.
Polystyrene contains a chemical called styrene, which the government has classified as a “reasonably anticipated human carcinogen” that can leach out during the microwaving process and into food.
Heating the foam cups in the microwave could “can also compromise the container’s structural integrity,” causing the contents to leak or spill on your appliance, or on you while you’re removing it.
Many packaged brands are crazy-high in sodium (though some come in reduced-sodium versions), including Cup Noodles, with a single serving of its classic chicken variety clocking in at 1,160 milligrams, or about half the recommended daily intake for an adult.
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