Maybe you heard about this in passing like I did? At some point last fall I caught a headline about throwing away all of the black spatulas in your kitchen. I didn’t stop the read the story I just noted it and moved on. I even mentioned it to my wife at one point because we have a couple of black pieces of kitchenware along with several other types. She hadn’t heard about it at all and I just forgot about it. But for a brief time this was really a thing. Here’s how the LA Times reported it in November.
Go to your kitchen, grab your black spatula and throw it in the trash. Immediately.
That’s the alarming message from a new study published in the journal Chemosphere. Cooking with any plastic utensil has long been seen as worrisome because heat can cause chemicals in the plastic to migrate into the food you’re about to eat. But researchers are now saying…
