Cooking in plastic bags and health issues

[Marco]

I have read that there are health concerns associated with cooking in plastic/zip lock bags. Are there any ways around cooking in these? 

[fischersd]

(if you did a search on “Plastic Health” without the quotes, you would have found multiple hits)

Here’s a couple:

http://community.anovaculinary.com/discussion/459/

http://community.anovaculinary.com/discussion/comment/1824/#Comment_1824

And, you really should be posting links for any articles you’re referencing if you want to have a worthwhile discussion about the topic.

[phoneless]

Those two links give an error message “Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.” It seems this page here is the only one relevant to “plastic health”.

EDIT: The search “is cooking in plastic safe?” yields more, including a thread started by fischersd.

[HunterC]

Hi Marco,

Here are some helpful links from community talking about plastic and health.

Teflon bags

Hello, new here. Just got my Anova Precision Cooker. I remember from reading the NY times article that one could use teflon bags instead of Ziplocs. Where do you buy teflon bags? I could not find any on Amazon. Should I not be concerned about using Ziploc bags for cooking? Components of the plastic leaching or contaminating the food, for example. TIA!

Plastic safety

Hello everyone, I just recently received my Anova cooker and started doing some research into which plastic bags are safe to cook in and after reading through a dozen websites or so, I’m pretty confused. On the one hand, it seems like there is a consensus on the safety of many (perhaps most) types of plastic bags used by vacuum sealers. However, I don’t have a vacuum sealer and am not interested in buying one at this point. Some people use silicon bags but they have so-so reviews on Amazon. I k…

Some people like to use silicone bags or mason jars as alternatives. There are a lot of ways to work around plastic if that is a big concern for you

[Galena]

No doubt this could be a problem with chemicals leaching into the food. I know Ziplock Zip and Steam bags contain no extra chemicals for that reason. the bag is made from PE PET period. Plus, I am terrible at sealing the regular zip locks, but a pro at using the ones that are truly self sealing. Zip and steam melts at 280F, so no danger of the lobster meat or Truffles escaping from the bag.

[Richardking]

@Marco

I have read that there are health concerns associated with cooking in plastic/zip-lock bags. Are there any ways around cooking in these? Walgreens Survey  

Did you get the solution? I’m also looking for the way.