• Lvxferre
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      Probably implicate correlation between consumption of those syrups* cooked in lead pots with the disease that we know today as Saturnism or lead poisoning. Like, the Romans themselves already noticed that lead cookware wasn’t exactly healthy.

      * callled defrutum, caroenum or sapa depending on concentration. Rather tasty, even without the lead; just cook some young wine to 1/3 of its original volume. I often use it over desserts.

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    1 year ago

    There will be a post in 2000 years about us eating Teflon.

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        Every time you cook in cooking ware coated with teflon you do indeed ingest some teflon, regardless of whether you use plastic cooking utensils or not.

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        Not on purpose, but yes we eat a lot more than is okay. Turns out that it’s not actually as safe to cook on as we thought