Lots of videos from India showing off the skill of their small-scale factories that manufacture pots out of melted-down old car parts and so on.
its really hard to trust anything anymore . everywhere you turn is something toxic
I mostly just use my Revere Ware set from 1978. Copper clad bottoms. :)
I eat wild caught tuna & salmon every week. Both are loaded with mercury & lead. Still no health issues at age 85. I ignore all click bait fear mongering articles.
They thrown in lead pellets to make the aluminum recycling pay more.
“recycling in some countries may lack quality controls that filter out impurities.”
I watch those “amazing manufacturing” videos from Pakistan. Everything goes in to the cauldron. Horrible working conditions and zero inspection or quality control.
I burst out laughing when one company was making PVC pipe out of who know what, that had some little kid feeding some ground up garbage in to the extrusion press and they printed “ISO 9001 Certified.” Hahahaha. Bunch of scamming frauds.
Bfl
I have watched a lot of those videos. You have to admire their resourcefulness and their ‘nothing gets wasted’ ethos. They changed my mind entirely about plastic recycling. But there is a downside. There must be a law against covering belts and gears and other moving parts. People in foundries working in bare feet. No PPE of any kind. Most work done sitting on the floor holding the work with your feet. If we ever wound up in a worldwide post-apocalyptic situation, I don’t think these guys would notice.
I use Demeyere.
Heavy but they don’t move around when cooking and hold heat.
so what’s the best product to buy?
Hasn’t that been a problem for decades ... cookware contaminating food? And not necessarily from India. Teflon?