10/10 worst things in your kitchen (Baddie clean girl edition - pt 2)

10/10 worst things in your kitchen, Baddie clean girl edition, part 2. Turn the hood on every time. They sampled gas from 159 stoves and 99% of it had benzene in it and the stove still leaks while it's off. Bake a new silicone mold empty first. So uncured, it puts 167 milligrams of siloxane per kilo into a pastry. Europe's limit is 60. Throw out your bamboo tableware. The Netherlands and Belgium banned it, and 1/8th failed the formaldehyde limit, and some of them by twenty-fold. Buy your turmeric whole and grind it. The bright yellow is actually lead chromate, added on purpose, and lead poisoned 519 American kids through cinnamon last year. Never let foil touch a steel pan or rack. Two metals with salty food between them is a battery and the aluminum is a side that dissolves into your dinner. Foil alone is fine, but foil on steel isn't. Never preheat an empty non-stick pan. The coating fumes around 500 degrees, and an empty pan on high gets there in minutes, and the flu you get has a name. Your air fryer basket typically is coated with that too. Lower heat means lower risk, but check it for scratches instead. Never hold the grocery receipt. There's 20 milligrams of free BPA per gram and hand sanitizer literally walks it through your skin. Stop trusting takeout wrappers. Forever chemicals were in 46% of them and they migrated into the food. The industry quietly pulled them in 2024. Nobody told you they were ever even in there. And the one thing here that's actually fine, ceramic pans came back clean for 96 different forever chemicals.