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What item you use frequently would you be least surprised to learn is secretly bad for you? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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This is sort of a shower thought because this morning I was using some shaving cream and I thought, if it turns out in 5 years this was giving me cancer, I wouldn't be surprised.

Comes out a goo, ejected from a can with force, immediately becomes a foam?

Do you have anything you use that you think might be too good to be true?

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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It also won’t surprise me too much if there’s some health hazard with them other than just the buildup of grease.

It’s an electric heating element and a fan, same as a convection oven except it exhausts rather than recirculates the air. Any issues beyond the grease buildup you mention would apply to any electric oven or toaster.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes but with an oven you can get in there and clean it. The grate at the top of the air fryer is built in away, where you can’t really clean it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    I have a toaster oven / convection oven / air fryer combo and it doesn’t suffer from this issue.

    Mainly, what I was trying to point out is aside from the grease issue that was pointed out, there’s nothing special about air fryers. Any issue aside from grease buildup would also affect convection ovens, which have existed for a long time with no ill effects noted. It’s just an electric heating element and a fan, they’re not doing anything that special. I don’t think they’re going to be found to be dangerous in the future.

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