Ya no shit

A many years ago we replaced all of our microwave scorched containers with glass snapware and banned plastics from the microwave. Then the microwave died two years ago and we have not bothered to replace it.

Haven’t had a microwave in about ten years now. There’s never been a situation where I’ve missed it

I'm not even a little surprised. I stopped heating food in plastic years ago. I have no plastic cups, plates, or utensils. It's not just about the microplastic bits, it's also the chemicals in the plastic that are released by heating. I don't trust that aspect even with the "microwave safe" containers.

Unfortunately, it's impossible to avoid food that has been processed with machines that have plastic parts, or food that is stored in plastic. The only way is to grow your own. Even food that is sold in non-plastic containers was at some point processed by and stored in plastic, before it was packaged for final shipping.

Here's a recent study about microplastic in olive oil. Olive oil sold in glass bottles contained just as much microplastic as that sold in plastic bottles.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0308814624002152

All throughout the process, you can see plastic containers, rollers, hoses, gaskets, etc. Every machine used to process food has many plastic parts that wear out, and those bits that wear off the parts end up in our food, it can't be avoided in industrialized food processing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD-nmv_G5HU

We're supposed to be picking the fruit off the tree and popping in our mouths, not running it through machines and shipping it back and forth across the world.

Sadly not surprising. Years ago we switched to glass and never looked back.

I basically only used it to separate slices of vegan bacon. 20 seconds was enough to defrost 2 slices on the top and bottom, but leave the rest of the block frozen.

What a fucked-up URL.

Just get some Pyrex. It also doesn't stain just because you had some spaghetti leftovers.

Pyrex can often be found used in thrift shops too ^^

I am 100% with you. Keep spreading the good word.

Where would one get vegan bacon by the block?

I use Morning Star Farms, it is not truly a block.

https://www.morningstarfarms.com/en_US/products/vegetarian-breakfast-foods/morningstar-farms-veggie-bacon-strips-product.html

Ah so it's like a stack of bacon in the package

Usually it is more fanned out, but not too unlike this.

gotcha, thanks!