As a professional kitchen gear tester, my utensil crock is constantly overflowing with wooden spoons and silicone spatulas.

It’s impossible to avoid all exposure to plastic. But updating your spatula, stirring spoon, or other kitchen gear from plastic is a simple swap, especially if you use these utensils often.

If you have a black spatula in your kitchen, or other black plastic items around your house like takeout containers or children’s toys, they could contain high levels of toxic flame retardants.

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LOS ANGELES — Go to your kitchen, grab your black spatula and throw it in the trash. Immediately. That’s the alarming message from a new study published in the journal Chemosphere. Cooking ...

But she still uses a black plastic spatula to cook eggs the way she likes and to avoid scratching her nonstick pan. “Everything in moderation,” she said.

Soon after journalist Zoë Schlanger wrote the piece “Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula” in The Atlantic at the end of October, dozens of other news outlets ...

If you recently threw out your black plastic spatula, as several news articles urged us to do (“Your favorite spatula could kill you” was a real headline), you might want to see if you can dig ...

Go to your kitchen, grab your black spatula and throw it in the trash. Immediately. That’s the alarming message from a new study published in the journal Chemosphere. Cooking with any plastic ...