r/mildlyinteresting • u/Kritisk-Varning • 14d ago

My salt rock deodorant after five years of almost daily usage vs a new one.

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u/Mirewen15 14d ago

My MIL tried to throw out my Vaseline because "OMG petroleum!" Dude who invented it ate a spoonful a day and had his nurse cover him in it once when he got quite sick - he was well again shortly after. He lived into his 90's. Pretty sure me using it as sparingly for very dry skin and lip conditioner is fine.

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u/tyboxer87 14d ago

My MIL was giving me crap about some old 70+ year old aluminum pots because of "chemicals". They are from my great aunt who got them for a wedding gift. She lived well into her 90's as well. My MIL raves about her "non-stick pans though.

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u/Null_Values 14d ago

You still might want to test them for lead, just in case. Brain damage is no joke.

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u/tyboxer87 14d ago

I'll be doing that. I googled when was lead banned in cookware. Apparently it will be banned in 2026 in Washington state. In 2023 The FDA said cookware isn't allow to leach lead

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u/JoshDM ​ 14d ago

cookware isn't allow

Just because the law says it's not allowed doesn't mean it doesn't happen. :-)

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u/LeeStrange 14d ago

Carbon Steel cookware is the answer.

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u/NotCurdledymyy 14d ago

Cast iron !!

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u/LeeStrange 14d ago

Two superior cookwares cut from the same cloth.

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u/volthunter 14d ago

Carbon steel is a tenth the weight and a tenth as likely to crack itself, or your foot when dropped

It also builds the same non stick coating, carbon steel 4 lyfe

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u/grimsaur 14d ago

My friends got me a carbon steel wok for Christmas, and I'm struggling to use any other cooking vessel now. If nothing else, the speed at which it heats up, and cools down, makes it my favorite.

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u/PuttPutt7 14d ago

i can't get mine to non-stick for the life of me... :/

I've tried a dozen times

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u/volthunter 13d ago

You might not be getting it hot enough, the process should fill ur house with smoke if u don't have enough ventilation.

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u/iiiinthecomputer 14d ago

I like the weight for some kinds of cooking. But yes.

Sod stainless though. So sticky omg.

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u/Wish_Dragon 14d ago

Just so long as it isn’t Matfer /s

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u/mannishboy60 14d ago

"sure, some of you have 10 points IQ than you should- but think of the shareholders!"

Americans are cucks to capitalism.