I love her to bits but I can’t figure out how she though this was a gold idea. It puts fumes into the food
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- viral.vegabond@piefed.socialEnglish5 days
Yeah, that’s a terrible idea. Just get an actual vacuum bag sealer.
- fireweed@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Or simply use a Ziploc bag. Or a reusable resealable bag. Or a chip clip. Or a piece of tape.
- Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish5 days
Ive just folded the tortialla bag in half, store em in tupperware with a lid cuz you can reuse it. But anything is better omg
- 5 days
Not all bags are compatible with those. You might end up with a goey plastic mess.
- viral.vegabond@piefed.socialEnglish5 days
Good point. Replacement with a resealable bag would be a better option.
- Janx@piefed.socialEnglish5 days
Why worry about “microplastics” when you can inhale the fumes in your home and consume macroplastics in your food!? Mmm, tastes like burning…
5 daysBoomers are fucking crazy with their food! My mom literally can’t stop microwaving styrofoam with their food inside it! No wonder cancer rates are absolutely RAGING
- Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish5 days
Cancer rates are going up because people aren’t dying from other things first
- bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish5 days
No. Both other causes and cancer are going up, because we’ve more toxic shit everywhere, and less healthcare than ever.
- Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
More toxic than 40 years ago? Yeah no, not even nearly. They also did not have more healthcare.
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish5 days
or any of the plastic ,“even biodegradable” dont microwave more than a minute.
- abbadon420@sh.itjust.worksEnglish5 days
There many different kinds of plastic, many of which are perfectly safe to put in the microwave for a few minutes.
- Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radioEnglish5 days
Did she used to sell small amounts of drugs sealed in a cigarette cellophane by any chance?
- 5 days
For all the comments in here, I’m surprised nobody’s pointed out there’s a good chance she’s simply not aware of the health effects. If she’s receptive, this could be a good chance to educate her.
- bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish5 days
You can’t communicate health concerns about stuff to old people like this, I can’t. It’s never worked, and more often than not they strangely hate you for it.
Forget fumes, there’s a 0% chance that none of that is making its way into the bag and onto your food.
- 404@lemmy.zipEnglish5 days
We all agree this is bad for food safety, but don’t you think regular sealing will affect the food as well? Of course melting the edges to seal them will produce some amount of gasses, even if it’s not burning, just like warm water will evaporate even if it’s not boiling. We shouldn’t use plastics for packaging at all.
- 404@lemmy.zipEnglish5 days
…yes, and limit the shelf life of the product, which is plastics’ biggest benefit. Air and water tight packaging extends shelf lives to ridiculous lenghts, especially if filled with an inert gas like your typical bag of fresh salad leaves. Besides saving money on produce that would spoil without plastic packaging, alternative packaging would entail changing people’s eating habits, especially in the northern hemisphere. But we really need to, you know? :/
- mriormro@lemmy.zipEnglish5 days
Let her know we make real handy, low tech solutions now. Decent example: https://www.oxo.com/oxo-gg-9-piece-clip-set.html
Bonus, it doesn’t kill you (or con, I guess?)
Thanks for sharing that your mom was a drug dealer. Anything else you’d like to share with us?
Nah kid, I used to sell weed in highschool, this is a common way we used to seal up bags before y’all got your vape oral fixation on.
- Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish5 days
omg
your ma has sealed up the cellophane from a pack up butts before, bet. Thats a real easy way to do it, and how we passed weed back in the days haha. That could be where she picked up the habit? Dont matter im dying haha
Why would you seal food this way!? Freaking hilarous, im so sorry haha goodness some folks.
- Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish4 days
Oh man, that hits hard in the nostalgias. Not as bad as smoking resin, turning random objects into weed pipes, inhaling hash smoke from hot butter knives… gah, I’m so fucked
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish5 days
dont give her ideas, first she heats the tongs til its red, then straigthen her hair.
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish5 days
much better to use even plastic boxes meant for storing food, or even ziplock bags. there are plenty glass containers too. metal clips with the neodynium magnets, even is safer.
- 5 days
A few years ago my octogenarian mom became incapable of sealing ziplock bags. It drove me insane because I would repeatedly go to open something like chips or crackers that I had put in ziplocks only to find the seal partly open and the contents stale. I got in the habit of just going through everything in the pantry every couple of hours and resealing all the bags. I thought this was age-related until we hired a mid-20s home helper for her and the helper had the same problem. I don’t know what it is – ziplock bags aren’t that hard to use properly.
- bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish5 days
Ziplocks are not all that secure. I had like a huge amount of aspen oyster mushrooms in ziplocks, here in the upper midwest, and they molded, even though they were dry. Same with other stuff. The humidity just seeps in somehow.
There has to be something to add to soak up moisture like the corporos do with that silica bullshit.
- Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
Silica bullshit? That stuff is about as save as sand, which it is essentially made of, just with a ton of pores added. And yes, plastic let’s water through, tho very very slow compared to other things we are used to. Not sure if that had anything to do with the mold problem you had, even a tiny hole (or the zip lock itself, closed) are FAR more leaky.
