# Cooking in plastic bags and health issues
**URL:** https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/cooking-in-plastic-bags-and-health-issues/825
**Category:** General
**Tags:** safety
**Created:** [October 28, 2016, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/cooking-in-plastic-bags-and-health-issues/825 "2016-10-28T17:30:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Marco](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/Marco)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2016, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/cooking-in-plastic-bags-and-health-issues/825/1 "2016-10-28T17:30:09Z")
I have read that there are health concerns associated with cooking in plastic/zip lock bags. Are there any ways around cooking in these?
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### Author:  [@fischersd](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/fischersd)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2016, 11:22am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/cooking-in-plastic-bags-and-health-issues/825/2 "2016-10-29T11:22:13Z")
(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/459/)
[http://community.anovaculinary.com/discussion/comment/1824/#Comment\_1824](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.
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### Author:  [@phoneless](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/phoneless)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/cooking-in-plastic-bags-and-health-issues/825/3 "2016-11-14T21:50:12Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@HunterC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/HunterC)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/cooking-in-plastic-bags-and-health-issues/825/4 "2016-11-14T22:40:52Z")
Hi Marco,
Here are some helpful links from community talking about plastic and health.
> [@Teflon bags](http://community.anovaculinary.com/t/teflon-bags/234):
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> 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](http://community.anovaculinary.com/t/plastic-safety/331):
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> 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 🙂
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### Author:  [@Galena](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/Galena)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/cooking-in-plastic-bags-and-health-issues/825/5 "2017-03-20T17:23:23Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Richardking](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/Richardking)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2023, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/cooking-in-plastic-bags-and-health-issues/825/6 "2023-08-27T17:30:30Z")
> [@Marco](#):
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> 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](https://www.walgreensreceiptsurvey.com/)
Did you get the solution? I’m also looking for the way.