I really dont like the silicone basting brush, though, it just seems ineffective!
I finally got around to replacing my plastic cutting boards. Started with composite wood / fiber from Epicurean and Mercer. The Epicurean ones are nicer but the price is attractive on the Mercer.
Your post was a good nudge for me to address our plastic cutting boards finally. I have been happy with the wood Japanese cutting board with stand, but of course, it can’t go in the dishwasher.
I ordered this set.
Dunno if this had been posted here yet, but apparently the black plastic panic was based on a mathematical error, i.e. the study was flawed.
Of course, there’s also this:
My red silicone pasta fork is on its merry way, nonetheless 
Looks good, and interesting that it’s dishwasher safe wood.
I like the ones I linked bec they’re lightweight. My sib’s been using Epicurean for years, even though he makes wooden cutting board himself 
(I have a gorgeous block from him that I refuse to use daily because it’s so pretty 
).
I am on a renewed quest to remove as much plastic as possible from food-adjacency, other than for fridge storage (after the food is cold). It’s distressing how ubiquitous it is.
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It’s broken record time but bears repeating…micro plastics have been found in human brains, human breast milk, human semen…and no way it’s good or reasonable.
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The articles I posted agree with your assessment.
Mine is that it sadly strikes me as irreversible at this point — which is not to imply that at least trying to avoid ingesting them (or believing we can do so in any measure that has an impact, given how they’re shown to have become a ubiquitous part of our bodies 
).
I have a favorite wooden cooking spoon I use for almost everything, and the silicone replacements I ordered for the black plastic cookware are a gorgeous red.
Indeed.
(I think you meant to end with “in any quantity”)
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Preferred composition and color at Casa Meekah. Brighter is better.
I don’t currently have a pasta fork. I just use tongs. And yes the ones that aren’t bare metal are …
The same color as my baby sized air fryer. 
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We recently repainted our kitchen from its original orange to red, so the new cookware’s color is no accident 
Interesting — I find both mine more effective than the regular ones.
I have one with scant bristles, and another which is a “grill” brush with denser and presumably more heat resistant bristles. Both seem to trap / lose less liquid than the non-silicone versions.
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My red is so that I can see/find things. Didn’t paint the cats red , ,
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They make themselves heard
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Yeah, I’m sure there are studies on heavy metals that have errors, too. But a little less lead or cadmium is hardly a reason to put it into contact with food.
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IME, silicone basting brushes function pretty well --as quasi mops–but not so great as brushes. I’ve had a few that have a central partition/stiffener that work a little better at “painting”, but a bristle brush is still king at spreading coatings evenly, IMO.
Of course, a real brush can’t pick up bastes like these silicone ones. I like to have a squeeze bottle of stuff to squirt on, and then brush it around…
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It’s a little late to ask this, but is nylon included in this “black plastic” brouhaha?
No, the study wasn’t flawed; their findings were valid. But yes, their alarm was (perhaps?) overstated due to their math error. Still, contamination is contamination, and I’m going to try to limit as much contamination as I can. Personally, I know I’ve “ingested” quite a bit of contaminants over my life so far. I still remember the “Air Quality Alerts” of SoCal, where the smog was so bad that we were told to not go outside and to limit activity as much as possible. I remember using Teflon pans to the point where the coatings were shredded, but being told Teflon was “inert” inside our bodies. I remember microwaving food in plastic containers and seeing the burn marks on the insides of the containers. I remember when I had to throw out all my plastic water bottles because of BPA.
I’m glad for these studies, even if the conclusions seem a bit alarmist at first. You can’t make decisions if you don’t have the research data to begin with.
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