Is it okay to use a pot with melted plastic in it?
My housemate accidentally turned the burner on under a pot with a plastic serving spoon in it. It melted a little bit, so there is a small spot of hardened black plastic inside the pot. Is it safe to use? Is there a way to get it off?
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You’ll be ingesting plastic if you leave it there.
As long as you’re polluting your body anyway, ......
Put a little heat under it and wipe the plastic out. then, hot water and a scouring pad and it’ll be fine.
Heat it up A LITTLE & scrape it off with a razor blade scraper. Keep working with it until you get all of the plastic out. Finish it up with Comet. It should be fine.
Melted plastic is very poisonous. I would absolutely not use it. You can go to goodwill and find a new one for cheap.
You shouldn’t be using pot at all. Drugs are bad, m’kay?
You will end up injesting the plastic.
The injested plastic will not leave your body as it will not recognize it. (the reason you can make implants and artificial body parts from plastic without fear of your body breaking it down).
You don’t what that plasitc in your system forever.
@drdoombot LOL. I thought the same thing. Here I’m picturing a part of the baggie being left in the rolling paper, etc.
If you cleaned out the pan the way I suggested, between scraping it out & scouring the pan with Comet, the amount of plastic left behind would be very minuscule. If I cleaned it out, there would be none.
@PapaLeo and @drdoombot , I thought so too!! I just now realized they were talking pots and pans not pots and hash!
@proXXi I don’t know about that, plastic not leaving your body! It won’t digest it, like it would food, but it would eventually pass through the digestive system, along with the marbles and the engagement rings and other crazy stuff that gets ingested!
No, I would not eat it, though.
For God’s sake, people! You’re not eating a spoonful of it! Scrape it off, scour it off & go on. Sheesh!
@jbfletcherfan Actually just the smell of cooking plastic, the fumes, is poisonous.
@jbfletcherfan Um, Walmart Plastic Bag flavor please.
@RedPowerLady Uh oh! I burn it in my fireplace sometimes!! ARRRRGGGHHHHHHHH!! Help me!
@Val123 WHAT do you burn in the fireplace??? Surely not plastic?? That’ll coat the inside of your flue & chimney.
@Val123 Ya I wouldn’t do that anymore.. Just throw it in the recycling. In fact even drinking water from plastic water bottles can be slightly (emphasize slightly) dangerous.
@jbfletcherfan We burn wood. On occassion we’ll wrap a piece of plastic around a piece of wood when we’re lighting it. It makes it burn hotter. Iz zat bad??
@Val123 Yeppers. The plastic fumes are poisonous. Can you wrap something natural to make it burn hotter?
Edit: Oops I’m a dork, just realized you were talking about affects to the chimney.
@Val123 Yeah, honey, that’s bad. Use small pieces of kindling. Don’t use newspapers either. The ink isn’t good to send up the chimney.
LOLLLLLL get a blow torch!
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