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What is the best material for home tableware?

I'm going to buy some household utensils, home utensils have been a long time, I would like to buy if I do not know what to buy a good material tableware?

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Glass tableware: clean, generally do not contain toxic substances. But sometimes the glass tableware will be moldy". This is because the long-term erosion of glass by water, will produce harmful substances to human health, to be washed with alkaline detergent.
Porcelain tableware porcelain used to be recognized as non-toxic tableware, but in recent years there are reports of the use of porcelain tableware poisoning. Some of the original porcelain tableware beautiful coat (glaze) contains lead, if the temperature is not enough to burn porcelain or glaze glaze ingredients do not meet the standards, it may make tableware containing more lead. When food is in contact with the dishes, the lead may spill over the surface of the glaze. Therefore, the surface of the thorns, multi spots, enamel is not even enough to even crack ceramic products, not suitable for tableware. In addition most of high lead porcelain adhesive, so make porcelain, best not to use when tableware. Selected porcelain tableware, use the index finger in the porcelain pat on the bomb, such as ringing up the sound, that delicate porcelain embryo, fired, if the film playing sound hoarse, that is damaged or porcelain porcelain embryo quality.
Now many people use copper copper tableware tableware, copper pot, copper copper spoon, etc.. In the copper tableware surface, often can see some blue green powder, people call it patine. It is an oxide of copper and is non-toxic. But in order to be clean, it is best to polish the surface of the copper tableware before using it.
Plastic tableware at present, commonly used plastic tableware is basically made of polyethylene and polypropylene as raw materials. This is recognized by the Department of health non-toxic plastic in most countries, the market of the candy box, trays, bowls, cold water bottles, bottle is this kind of plastic. But PVC, which is similar to the molecular structure of polyethylene, is a dangerous molecule, and it has been found that it is a rare type of liver hemangioma that is associated with people who are exposed to pvc. Therefore, in the use of plastic products, we must pay attention to what is the raw material? When the hand is not the product manual, the following method can be used to identify that the hand feels smooth, flammable, fire burns with a yellow flame and paraffin taste plastic products are non-toxic polyethylene or polypropylene. Who feels sticky, fire retardant, green flame, burning pungent smell of plastic is PVC, not for food containers. Do not choose bright plastic tableware, according to the test, some plastic tableware color patterns lead, cadmium and other heavy metals release amount exceeded. So try to choose no decorative patterns and colorless tasteless plastic tableware.

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