Edit: I decided to throw it out and order a new stainless steel one that’s all one piece. Thanks for the help!
I strongly recommend NO glue and liberal use of your TRASH CAN. Then go get a cast iron frying pan and a METAL flip turner.
Do this so you do not die a horrible micro plastic PFOS death one day.
Best!
News flash: Even if they do that, your body is already full of microplastics as it’s in your food. So not sure if this is going to help even one bit :)
Instructions unclear, trash can now wedged into my dishwasher and a pipe burst behind it
I already have cast iron pots and pans, but you make a good point. I’m going stainless steel!
These types of plastic spatulas tend to be recycled plastic. Which…you’d usually be all like “Oh, that’s great!”
WRONG! Unfortunately it means you’re getting an unknown exposure level of forever chemicals and there’s rarely any oversight on what types of plastics are put into these. So it’s worse than just cooking with plastics. It’s cooking with an amalgam of unknown plastics that may be putting a huge amount of chemicals into your food.
I’m so glad you never go to restaurants, use plastic bags, ziplocs, or ever take food to go. It’s good to use only glass food storage. Now tell us how to afford it. If you’re over 2 years old (and I assume you are) we’re already fucked with plastics.
At least upgrade to silicone. I’m baffled that cooking utensils even come in nylon. Options should only be metal, wood, silicone if intended to use near heat.
As far as I have seen, nylon is considered food safe and dishwasher friendly. https://weeklypellet.com/2016/06/10/the-tricky-business-of-choosing-plastic-for-food-contact-applications/
Don’t buy trash in the first place. Better for the environment, better for your workflows.
“How can I fix this so I don’t have to throw it away?”
“Go back in time, idiot!”
If its good enough to glue my fingers it will glue anything.
Seriously though we use this to glue orings together and then install them in hot working machinery.
Probably more expensive then a new spatula though
It’s common practice, you can buy oring lengths cut to size and glue together.
Not so much repair one as the rubber perishes.
Though if you cut one on initial installation you can glue it back together.
Or the other week i was repairing a leaking motor, didn’t have the right size and width oring but i had the right width in one that was too big, so cut it shorter and away it goes
I don’t have the sort of job where I deal with orings much anymore, but was always told - broken oring = trash, used oring = trash, pinched oring = trash, oring you don’t like the look of = trash.
Not disagreeing with you, but the presence of a kit like that makes my eyeball twitch. :D
West Systems 105 epoxy and 205 fast hardener. Roughen the area with some 220 grit sand paper, blot on some epoxy with a chip brush, wrap in fiberglass. Repeat until you have 2-4 layers of fiberglass. Use epoxy with 406 high-density filler to blend the edges if desired. Vacuum bag it until the epoxy has cured. Wet sand smooth if necessary, working up to 4000 grit.
Can I introduce you to hand crafted spoons and spatulas:
My brother makes them and sells a few, but considering that we are on the other side of the world to most people postage is a killer.
He doesn’t have a ‘store’, although I did put one together for him during lockdown, but you could contact him through insta Wooden Jeff
Really? I can believe I was misinformed/taught wrong, but can you back that up? Online results are split.
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