cooking problem/question

[dude8604]

So, I was cooking some chicken in the oven in a baking tray, and somehow failed to notice that there was a bit of plastic wrap on the baking tray. After having it in the oven for 10 minutes I smelled plastic fumes, and went back to the oven and saw the melting plastic wrap. None of it got on the chicken, but it was exposed to plastic fumes for a while. I'm trying to figure out if it's safe to eat. What do you think?

 

[bignateyk]

congrats, you have cancer.

 

[SmoochyTX]

I wouldn't eat it.

 

[Tiamat]

i wouldnt eat it

Many common plastics give off toxic secondary products when burned / irradiated

 

[dude8604]

Originally posted by: Tiamat
i wouldnt eat it

Many common plastics give off toxic secondary products when burned / irradiated

So even though the plastic never touched the chicken, you think the fumes caused the chicken to absorbe toxins from the plastic fumes? The chicken does taste okay.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: dude8604

Originally posted by: Tiamat
i wouldnt eat it

Many common plastics give off toxic secondary products when burned / irradiated

So even though the plastic never touched the chicken, you think the fumes caused the chicken to absorbe toxins from the plastic fumes? The chicken does taste okay.

so you ate it anyway?

id pitch it. but, whatever. its probably not enough to give you cancer.....today

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: dude8604

Originally posted by: Tiamat
i wouldnt eat it

Many common plastics give off toxic secondary products when burned / irradiated

So even though the plastic never touched the chicken, you think the fumes caused the chicken to absorbe toxins from the plastic fumes? The chicken does taste okay.

I dont know enough about the subject to give you a scare or reassurance. Toxins in their gas phase are just as dangerous as any other form.

Lets just say that its better if you dont make burning plastic into or near your food/water a habit. When I work with polymer reactions, I do so in a special hood with those special gloves that you see in those dangerous virus movies.