My mother-in-law's way of sealing plastic bags. Yes that's been burnt by the stove top

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• viral.vegabond@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, that’s a terrible idea. Just get an actual vacuum bag sealer.

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  • fireweed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or simply use a Ziploc bag. Or reusable resealable bag. Or a chip clip. Or a piece of tape.

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    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just eat it all in one sitting

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  • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ive just folded the tortialla bag in half, store em in tupperware with a lid cuz you can reuse it. But anything is better omg

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      or even rubber bands which are inexpensive.

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• Janx@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why worry about “microplastics” when you can inhale the fumes in your home and consume macroplastics in your food!? Mmm, tastes like burning…

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• Bristlecone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Boomers are fucking crazy with their food! My mom literally can’t stop microwaving styrofoam with their food inside it! No wonder cancer rates are absolutely RAGING

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  • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That, and 347 pesticides in use in the US today.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cancer rates are going up because people aren’t dying from other things first

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    • Bristlecone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re wrong, its also going up in young people

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    • bedwyr@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No. Both other causes and cancer are going up, because we’ve more toxic shit everywhere, and less healthcare than ever.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    or any of the plastic ,“even biodegradable” dont microwave more than a minute.

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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Delicious burnt plastic fumes

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  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Forget fumes, there’s a 0% chance that none of that is making its way into the bag and onto your food.

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• 404@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We all agree this is bad for food safety, but don’t you think regular sealing will affect the food as well? Of course melting the edges to seal them will produce some amount of gasses, even if it’s not burning, just like warm water will evaporate even if it’s not boiling. We shouldn’t use plastics for packaging at all.

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  • AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But it’d cost an extra 3 cents to use other packaging!

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    • 404@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      …yes, and limit the shelf life of the product, which is plastics’ biggest benefit. Air and water tight packaging extends shelf lives to ridiculous lenghts, especially if filled with an inert gas like your typical bag of fresh salad leaves. Besides saving money on produce that would spoil without plastic packaging, alternative packaging would entail changing people’s eating habits, especially in the northern hemisphere. :/

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• Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yummy, free cancer tortillas!

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  • 100_kg_90_de_belin@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lemme brush me gums with asbestos

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Toothbrush: Fibers

      Asbestos: Fibers

      I see nothing wrong with this.

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• JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mom used to sling dime bags

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  • StillAlive@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks for sharing that your mom was a drug dealer. Anything else you’d like to share with us?

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    • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nah kid, I used to sell weed in highschool, this is a common way we used to seal up bags before y’all got your vape iral fixation on.

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    • bedwyr@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I am pro drug.

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• Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  omg

  your ma has sealed up the cellophane from a pack up butts before, bet. Thats a real easy way to do it, and how we passed weed back in the days haha. That could be where she picked up the habit? Dont matter im dying haha

  Why would you seal food this way!? Freaking hilarous, im so sorry haha goodness some folks.

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  • Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh man, that hits hard in the nostalgias. Not as bad as smoking resin, turning random objects into weed pipes, inhaling hash smoke from hot butter knives… gah, I’m so fucked

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• Radical_Socialist_t00t@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Have you tried telling them instead of us?

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• Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Did she used to sell small amounts of drugs sealed in a cigarette cellophane by any chance?

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• mriormro@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Let her know we make real handy, low tech solutions now. Decent example: www.oxo.com/oxo-gg-9-piece-clip-set.html

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  much better to use even plastic boxes meant for storing food, or even ziplock bags.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A few years ago my octogenarian mom became incapable of sealing ziplock bags. It drove me insane because I would repeatedly go to open something like chips or crackers that I had put in ziplocks only to find the seal partly open and the contents stale. I got in the habit of just going through everything in the pantry every couple of hours and resealing all the bags. I thought this was age-related until we hired a mid-20s home helper for her and the helper had the same problem. I don’t know what it is – ziplock bags aren’t that hard to use properly.

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    • bedwyr@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ziplocks are not all that secure. I had like a huge amount of aspen oyster mushrooms in ziplocks, here in the upper midwest, and they molded, even though they were dry. Same with other stuff. The humidity just seeps in somehow.

      There has to be something to add to soak up moisture like the corporos do with that silica bullshit.

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• nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Leftovers from the Dinosaur BBQ hmmm

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• bedwyr@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For like 40 bucks you can buy a sealer. It doesn’t work well though. Best to not use plastic at all. I hate plastic.

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• NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s crazy. Like the fuq

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• Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That was the official way to seal bags on the McDonald’s I used to work.

  Heat the spatula on the grill, then place the bag on the grill and press with the tip of the spatula.

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• OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Crêpes à la Crème Chantilly Microplastique

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