{"id":1072,"date":"2007-03-16T08:04:54","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T13:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2007-03-16T08:04:54","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T13:04:54","slug":"plastics-are-your-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/03\/16\/plastics-are-your-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastics are your friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freezerbagcooking.com\/myblog.htm?blogentryid=1310588\">So says Sarah<\/a> at Freezer Bag Cooking, who notes the many safety-related questions she receives about people wondering if cooking food in a Ziploc bag will give them cancer.  Also:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Freezer bags are made of 100% polyethylene. Most bags are 3 mil thick. And yes, another often asked question: freezer bags are recyclable! Very much so. When you get home, you can rinse out the used bags, and toss in with your plastics.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Her opinion is the bags are safe when using her cooking method: pouring hot water into a bag with dried food in it (which is much different than, say, trying the boil-in-bag thing, which weakens the bag and exposes it to the risk of melting if it touches the pan).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So says Sarah at Freezer Bag Cooking, who notes the many safety-related questions she receives about people wondering if cooking food in a Ziploc bag will give them cancer. Also: Freezer bags are made of 100% polyethylene. Most bags are&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/03\/16\/plastics-are-your-friend\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}