Amazon has Genuine Fred ManaTEA Reusable Silicone Tea Infuser (Blue Manatee) for $3.54. Shipping is free w/ Prime or on $35+ orders.
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Simply fill with your favorite loose leaf tea and perch on your cup to enjoy perfectly brewed tea
When you purchase tea infusers from Genuine Fred, you are an original product that is constructed from food-safe, BPA-free silicone. This material is soft, non-toxic, and tasteless, so it won't affect the flavor of your tea
After use, discard the loose tea leaves and rinse with hot water. Genuine Fred silicone tea infusers are also dishwasher and microwave safe
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Amazon has Genuine Fred ManaTEA Reusable Silicone Tea Infuser (Blue Manatee) for $3.54. Shipping is free w/ Prime or on $35+ orders.
Thanks to Deal Hunter phoinix for posting this deal.
About this item:
Simply fill with your favorite loose leaf tea and perch on your cup to enjoy perfectly brewed tea
When you purchase tea infusers from Genuine Fred, you are an original product that is constructed from food-safe, BPA-free silicone. This material is soft, non-toxic, and tasteless, so it won't affect the flavor of your tea
After use, discard the loose tea leaves and rinse with hot water. Genuine Fred silicone tea infusers are also dishwasher and microwave safe
Model: Genuine Fred, MANATEA, Manatee Reusable Silicone Tea Infuser, Blue, Fun Gift for Tea Lovers, Clever Kitchen Gadget
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I just think these are probably bad since they soak in hot water? I know you can get little bags that are sort of reusable at least twice or so at like 100 for not that much. Those are pobably safer or get the metal ones?
Silicone and boiling hot water, I'm not a health expert but I don't think that's a good mix. Stick to metal infusers or make your own tea bags.
Silicone, regardless as touted as a healthy alternative to BPS, BPA, etc. is still an unstudied product (long term) and a plastic and not completely inert or chemically unreactive and can release toxic chemicals. Many of these studies are done by the same companies that have a financial interest in these products. Silicone is reacted with hydrocarbons to create siloxane. They do leech with fatty substances, like oil. Many times you cannot get the smell or certain oils off of it and silicone reacts to oils.
Silicone, a rubber-like material, is a polymer made up of individual building blocks, known as siloxanes. During the production process, additives such as plasticisers or colorants are used to achieve specific functions, e.g. flexibility or colour
To give an example: TPE (thermoplastic) and Silicone products. With TPE you melt at 200C and extrude thru a nozzle; its odorless and clean.
Silicone, you need to premix with peroxide, extrude it and cook in 400C. It then produces a really nasty, and smelly smoke with the end product being really nasty in smell which is most likely acetic acid and/or formaldehyde. Then you bake it for several hours to get rid of the smell. There are two ways to cure silicone and thats through peroxide (which is mostly everything) then platinum (which is reserved for contact with babies). This smoke that comes out during curing damages the reproductive organs, liver and is carcinogenic (look up PCB 47/68 in peroxide-cured silicone factory). Its very likely almost all silicone products you come in contact with is processed via peroxide method, unless you're talking about spoons made for babies. About microplastics: Yes, silicone eventually breaks down and degrades. Most all silicones are polydimethylsiloxane. This is a Si-O-Si-O along the backbone but Si forms 4 bonds not just 2. The other are in nearly all circumstances methyl groups (-CH3). None of these are likely to form microplastics like other -C-C-C- plastics do. Instead they are more likely to resemble quartz when broken down. The biggest health issues come from breathing in silica giving people a condition called silicosis similar to asbestos. It is specific to the lungs so I would be interested if there's any studies on PDMS microplastics in the lungs. That could be a problem but it's something that is being studied right now so I'm not sure what the scientific consensus is on that.
Recycling: Silicones are not capable of being recycled. Just like car tires, we will find ways to reuse them (soft landing spots at kids playgrounds for instance) but the vulcanization reaction prevents them from being remelted and reformed like glass, metal, and many plastics. Silicones are interesting and more biosafe but they're typically more expensive its actually crazy how cheap the oil industry has made polypropylene.
When silicone breaks down, it turns sticky. It's degradation. Possibly due to detergents, chemicals or dish washers or even solvents, long term heat and UV exposure, etc. Heavy use will break chemical bonds making it tacky on the surface. Silicone has a high temp resistance and is not prone to breaking down, another misnomer.
Relatively little is overall known about the complex mix of chemicals that migrate from silicone materials, including their toxicological effects due to long-term ingestion. To date, three individual siloxanes have been classified as Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) under REACH due to their persistent properties; with additional concern raised over suspected endocrine disrupting and reprotoxic effects. Further research is however needed to determine whether exposure to the mostly unknown compounds released from silicone materials presents a risk to food safety and public health.
Key findings of the study include:
23% of the tested products released chemical constituents in high or increasing amounts, suggesting they may not be suitable for repeated use.
82% of samples contained substances of concern, albeit at low levels.
Just like how they touted how BPS was safe and (safer) than BPA which was also found to be a hormone disruptor and sometimes even worse than BPA. Its just a shuffle game with these manufacturers to disarm the public about the real health consequences and reprotoxicity of their products as no long term studies have been done on some of these new polymers, production processes and additives.
Stay with the tried and true:
Glass.
Stainless steel (to an extent).
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Silicone, regardless as touted as a healthy alternative to BPS, BPA, etc. is still an unstudied product (long term) and a plastic and not completely inert or chemically unreactive and can release toxic chemicals. Many of these studies are done by the same companies that have a financial interest in these products. Silicone is reacted with hydrocarbons to create siloxane. They do leech with fatty substances, like oil. Many times you cannot get the smell or certain oils off of it and silicone reacts to oils.
Silicone, a rubber-like material, is a polymer made up of individual building blocks, known as siloxanes. During the production process, additives such as plasticisers or colorants are used to achieve specific functions, e.g. flexibility or colour
To give an example: TPE (thermoplastic) and Silicone products. With TPE you melt at 200C and extrude thru a nozzle; its odorless and clean.
Silicone, you need to premix with peroxide, extrude it and cook in 400C. It then produces a really nasty, and smelly smoke with the end product being really nasty in smell which is most likely acetic acid and/or formaldehyde. Then you bake it for several hours to get rid of the smell. There are two ways to cure silicone and thats through peroxide (which is mostly everything) then platinum (which is reserved for contact with babies). This smoke that comes out during curing damages the reproductive organs, liver and is carcinogenic (look up PCB 47/68 in peroxide-cured silicone factory). Its very likely almost all silicone products you come in contact with is processed via peroxide method, unless you're talking about spoons made for babies. About microplastics: Yes, silicone eventually breaks down and degrades. Most all silicones are polydimethylsiloxane. This is a Si-O-Si-O along the backbone but Si forms 4 bonds not just 2. The other are in nearly all circumstances methyl groups (-CH3). None of these are likely to form microplastics like other -C-C-C- plastics do. Instead they are more likely to resemble quartz when broken down. The biggest health issues come from breathing in silica giving people a condition called silicosis similar to asbestos. It is specific to the lungs so I would be interested if there's any studies on PDMS microplastics in the lungs. That could be a problem but it's something that is being studied right now so I'm not sure what the scientific consensus is on that.
Recycling: Silicones are not capable of being recycled. Just like car tires, we will find ways to reuse them (soft landing spots at kids playgrounds for instance) but the vulcanization reaction prevents them from being remelted and reformed like glass, metal, and many plastics. Silicones are interesting and more biosafe but they're typically more expensive its actually crazy how cheap the oil industry has made polypropylene.
When silicone breaks down, it turns sticky. It's degradation. Possibly due to detergents, chemicals or dish washers or even solvents, long term heat and UV exposure, etc. Heavy use will break chemical bonds making it tacky on the surface. Silicone has a high temp resistance and is not prone to breaking down, another misnomer.
Relatively little is overall known about the complex mix of chemicals that migrate from silicone materials, including their toxicological effects due to long-term ingestion. To date, three individual siloxanes have been classified as Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) under REACH due to their persistent properties; with additional concern raised over suspected endocrine disrupting and reprotoxic effects. Further research is however needed to determine whether exposure to the mostly unknown compounds released from silicone materials presents a risk to food safety and public health.
Key findings of the study include:
23% of the tested products released chemical constituents in high or increasing amounts, suggesting they may not be suitable for repeated use.
82% of samples contained substances of concern, albeit at low levels.
Just like how they touted how BPS was safe and (safer) than BPA which was also found to be a hormone disruptor and sometimes even worse than BPA. Its just a shuffle game with these manufacturers to disarm the public about the real health consequences and reprotoxicity of their products as no long term studies have been done on some of these new polymers, production processes and additives.
Stay with the tried and true:
Glass. Stainless steel (to an extent).
Thanks for the detailed post, but I'm curious about this last line - to what extent are you referring? Most people are heating the water they're using in stainless steel to begin with.
Thanks for the detailed post, but I'm curious about this last line - to what extent are you referring? Most people are heating the water they're using in stainless steel to begin with.
Due to chromium and nickel toxicity.
Not exactly cut and dry.
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For the scenarios tested, the amount of nickel and chromium leached from stainless steel into tomato sauce is independent of tomato sauce brand, but dependent on the grade of stainless steel, cooking time, and previous usage or seasoning of the stainless steel. The effectiveness of avoiding stainless steel cookware to reduce nickel and chromium exposure and its effects on diminishing the effects of ACD is still unknown. However, it appears that recommendations to avoid stainless steel for those with nickel and chromium sensitivities may be prudent.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/arti...MC4284091/
Also, don't get me started on "ceramic". Ceramic nonstick pans are not in a sense ceramic but their coating make them look glazed which looks similar to ceramics. So much deception in cookware these days.
They're actually metal pans with a finish that uses silicon to prevent sticking. But to be jest, there is no standard for ceramic coating, many of the manufacturers label their process as ceramic or ceramic coating, but there is no standard so you don't know how they made it, what the process was etc. Its all up to you to trust that company. https://www.thekitchn.com/ceramic-pans-260086
Fully safe does not exist, its pick your poison and convenience.
PS. Granite is also PTFE aka Teflon, Teflon is just DUPONT's brand name for the original PTFE. https://www.nes-ips.com/teflon-vs-ptfe/
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Silicone, a rubber-like material, is a polymer made up of individual building blocks, known as siloxanes. During the production process, additives such as plasticisers or colorants are used to achieve specific functions, e.g. flexibility or colour
To give an example: TPE (thermoplastic) and Silicone products. With TPE you melt at 200C and extrude thru a nozzle; its odorless and clean.
Silicone, you need to premix with peroxide, extrude it and cook in 400C. It then produces a really nasty, and smelly smoke with the end product being really nasty in smell which is most likely acetic acid and/or formaldehyde. Then you bake it for several hours to get rid of the smell. There are two ways to cure silicone and thats through peroxide (which is mostly everything) then platinum (which is reserved for contact with babies). This smoke that comes out during curing damages the reproductive organs, liver and is carcinogenic (look up PCB 47/68 in peroxide-cured silicone factory). Its very likely almost all silicone products you come in contact with is processed via peroxide method, unless you're talking about spoons made for babies.
About microplastics: Yes, silicone eventually breaks down and degrades. Most all silicones are polydimethylsiloxane. This is a Si-O-Si-O along the backbone but Si forms 4 bonds not just 2. The other are in nearly all circumstances methyl groups (-CH3). None of these are likely to form microplastics like other -C-C-C- plastics do. Instead they are more likely to resemble quartz when broken down. The biggest health issues come from breathing in silica giving people a condition called silicosis similar to asbestos. It is specific to the lungs so I would be interested if there's any studies on PDMS microplastics in the lungs. That could be a problem but it's something that is being studied right now so I'm not sure what the scientific consensus is on that.
Recycling: Silicones are not capable of being recycled. Just like car tires, we will find ways to reuse them (soft landing spots at kids playgrounds for instance) but the vulcanization reaction prevents them from being remelted and reformed like glass, metal, and many plastics. Silicones are interesting and more biosafe but they're typically more expensive its actually crazy how cheap the oil industry has made polypropylene.
When silicone breaks down, it turns sticky. It's degradation. Possibly due to detergents, chemicals or dish washers or even solvents, long term heat and UV exposure, etc. Heavy use will break chemical bonds making it tacky on the surface. Silicone has a high temp resistance and is not prone to breaking down, another misnomer.
Relatively little is overall known about the complex mix of chemicals that migrate from silicone materials, including their toxicological effects due to long-term ingestion. To date, three individual siloxanes have been classified as Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) under REACH due to their persistent properties; with additional concern raised over suspected endocrine disrupting and reprotoxic effects. Further research is however needed to determine whether exposure to the mostly unknown compounds released from silicone materials presents a risk to food safety and public health.
Key findings of the study include:
23% of the tested products released chemical constituents in high or increasing amounts, suggesting they may not be suitable for repeated use.
82% of samples contained substances of concern, albeit at low levels.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.ni
https://foodpackagingfo
https://www.beuc.eu/sites/default...kewar
https://www.sciencedire
https://www2.mst.dk/udgiv/publica...-757-6.pdf
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm
Just like how they touted how BPS was safe and (safer) than BPA which was also found to be a hormone disruptor and sometimes even worse than BPA. Its just a shuffle game with these manufacturers to disarm the public about the real health consequences and reprotoxicity of their products as no long term studies have been done on some of these new polymers, production processes and additives.
Stay with the tried and true:
Glass.
Stainless steel (to an extent).
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Silicone, a rubber-like material, is a polymer made up of individual building blocks, known as siloxanes. During the production process, additives such as plasticisers or colorants are used to achieve specific functions, e.g. flexibility or colour
To give an example: TPE (thermoplastic) and Silicone products. With TPE you melt at 200C and extrude thru a nozzle; its odorless and clean.
Silicone, you need to premix with peroxide, extrude it and cook in 400C. It then produces a really nasty, and smelly smoke with the end product being really nasty in smell which is most likely acetic acid and/or formaldehyde. Then you bake it for several hours to get rid of the smell. There are two ways to cure silicone and thats through peroxide (which is mostly everything) then platinum (which is reserved for contact with babies). This smoke that comes out during curing damages the reproductive organs, liver and is carcinogenic (look up PCB 47/68 in peroxide-cured silicone factory). Its very likely almost all silicone products you come in contact with is processed via peroxide method, unless you're talking about spoons made for babies.
About microplastics: Yes, silicone eventually breaks down and degrades. Most all silicones are polydimethylsiloxane. This is a Si-O-Si-O along the backbone but Si forms 4 bonds not just 2. The other are in nearly all circumstances methyl groups (-CH3). None of these are likely to form microplastics like other -C-C-C- plastics do. Instead they are more likely to resemble quartz when broken down. The biggest health issues come from breathing in silica giving people a condition called silicosis similar to asbestos. It is specific to the lungs so I would be interested if there's any studies on PDMS microplastics in the lungs. That could be a problem but it's something that is being studied right now so I'm not sure what the scientific consensus is on that.
Recycling: Silicones are not capable of being recycled. Just like car tires, we will find ways to reuse them (soft landing spots at kids playgrounds for instance) but the vulcanization reaction prevents them from being remelted and reformed like glass, metal, and many plastics. Silicones are interesting and more biosafe but they're typically more expensive its actually crazy how cheap the oil industry has made polypropylene.
When silicone breaks down, it turns sticky. It's degradation. Possibly due to detergents, chemicals or dish washers or even solvents, long term heat and UV exposure, etc. Heavy use will break chemical bonds making it tacky on the surface. Silicone has a high temp resistance and is not prone to breaking down, another misnomer.
Relatively little is overall known about the complex mix of chemicals that migrate from silicone materials, including their toxicological effects due to long-term ingestion. To date, three individual siloxanes have been classified as Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) under REACH due to their persistent properties; with additional concern raised over suspected endocrine disrupting and reprotoxic effects. Further research is however needed to determine whether exposure to the mostly unknown compounds released from silicone materials presents a risk to food safety and public health.
Key findings of the study include:
23% of the tested products released chemical constituents in high or increasing amounts, suggesting they may not be suitable for repeated use.
82% of samples contained substances of concern, albeit at low levels.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/arti...MC4884743/ [nih.gov]
https://foodpackagingforum.org/ne...-materials [foodpackagingforum.org]
https://www.beuc.eu/sites/default...keware.pdf [beuc.eu]
https://www.sciencedirect.com/sci...2018318105 [sciencedirect.com]
https://www2.mst.dk/udgiv/publica...-757-6.pdf [mst.dk]
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm
Just like how they touted how BPS was safe and (safer) than BPA which was also found to be a hormone disruptor and sometimes even worse than BPA. Its just a shuffle game with these manufacturers to disarm the public about the real health consequences and reprotoxicity of their products as no long term studies have been done on some of these new polymers, production processes and additives.
Stay with the tried and true:
Glass.
Stainless steel (to an extent).
Not exactly cut and dry.
Also, don't get me started on "ceramic". Ceramic nonstick pans are not in a sense ceramic but their coating make them look glazed which looks similar to ceramics. So much deception in cookware these days.
They're actually metal pans with a finish that uses silicon to prevent sticking. But to be jest, there is no standard for ceramic coating, many of the manufacturers label their process as ceramic or ceramic coating, but there is no standard so you don't know how they made it, what the process was etc. Its all up to you to trust that company.
https://www.thekitchn.c
Fully safe does not exist, its pick your poison and convenience.
PS. Granite is also PTFE aka Teflon, Teflon is just DUPONT's brand name for the original PTFE. https://www.nes-ips.com/teflon-vs-ptfe/