Glass vs. Plastic Cookware.

I've been thinking . As I worked in the garden plot I was thinking about cookware. What we cook in is just as important as the food we cook and eat. Cast iron, stainless steel and glass cook ware are probably the best-most healthy utensils to cook and serve in. Granted, cast iron does leach some iron into your foods it is generally not a harmful element. Glassware and stainless steel are inert. They do not leach metals and other chemicals into you food. I have glassware, some cast iron and some Teflon cookware. I try to avoid the plastics. Some plastics are touted to be "microwaveable safe." I have had microwaveable dishes-plates, lose their shape, melt and develop melt rings around the edges of food that was cooking. So they were not so "safe" after all. Plastics and Teflon emit or leach BPA into your food. That can't be good. Look up BPA and then avoid it as much as possible.

Often vegetables are processed in cans that have a white linings inside. Uh Oh, bad stuff. meats are packed on black plastic trays, sealed in plastic and treated with a gas to keep it looking fresh longer.Hmmm, not so good. What choices do we have? Hmmm, not so many.

I try to to avoid plastics, but it is hard to accomplish. Keep in mind that plastics are a petroleum derived product. You wouldn't drink oil, would you? Everywhere you look there is plastic trash in the air, on the ground and in the landfill. If we did away with most plastic products this would be a cleaner, healthier country. It's like smoking, you know it's bad for you, but you just won't quit. We will pay for our dependence on plastics.

Buy glassware and use it. It is an economic, sensible cookware that can be used over and over and passed on as long as you don't get silly and brake it. I have Anchor cookware that is at least 30 years old, strong and viable. It is like the famous batteries; It just keeps on cooking and cooking.

Something that you may want to Google...BPA.

The day didn't come off as predicted; it was supposed to be in the 60's. The sun didn't appear until after moon. Still, I got some more garden clean-up done and filled a couple more bags.

There is probably at least another bag's worth to pick up and set out for pick up. I am making progress.

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