Or if the sources they’re citing are outdated. I’ve gotten into a few arguments with my wife over topics that were covered in her degree, but new evidence has contradicted what she was taught.
Like wood cutting boards being more sanitary than plastic. Her biology textbook said plastic was more sanitary, which has been disproven.
Luckily she very rarely uses the, “I have a master’s degree so I know more than you,” card, mostly because I don’t challenge her unless I know I’m right.
The whole “I have a degree” is an appeal to authority logical fallacy anyways, with this being one example why (people just lying is another, though hopefully that one doesn’t come up in a marriage).
And yeah, I’ve also gone through the “once preferred plastic cooking tools, now tries to minimize the amount of contact between plastic and my food”. And I wonder if it made it into that biology textbook the same way it once made it to the top of my preference list: stupid assumptions based on the look and feel.
Btw, if you don’t use ice very often and it ends up sitting in the tray for a long time before you do use it, I highly recommend metal ice cube trays. I’d notice a white film that wouldn’t melt and would float on top of water I put plastic trayed ice in. It had a bad taste… not a strong flavour, but a mildly unpleasant one. I still see white on ice from the metal tray, but it’s just trapped gasses because it doesn’t leave a film on the water and tastes just like frozen water instead of plasticky.
I also notice that frozen veggies smell like that flavour when they are still in the bag. Hard to tell how much of that ends up in the food because the food has a stronger flavour.
I was using water from my RO filter and still am. I noticed it with other ice trays at other locations, but thought it was just something that happened to ice sitting in the freezer rather than coming from the ice tray itself, until I got one of those silicone sphere ice trays that only has a tiny bit exposed and noticed it was worse instead of better. It was also my first non-white ice tray, and I could clearly see the white film that remained on the silicone, which prompted me to buy the metal tray.
Fridge ice makers probably aren’t an issue because the ice doesn’t sit in the tray for very long (which also might be metal). They can sit in a plastic tub for a while before being dispensed, but they don’t have full contact with that plastic, and ice in the middle wouldn’t even have any contact until ice shifts around.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it depends on the type of plastic the tray is made out of, too. Like the silicone being worse might have been due to the plastic itself as much as the higher amount of contact with the ice.
And even without that, the metal one is just nicer to use. It is a normal tray with a metal grid attached to a hinged handle that easily breaks the ice. I’ve had a plastic tray partially snap while trying to twist the ice out, though even when they didn’t break, the ice would also sometimes refuse to break free.
Or if the sources they’re citing are outdated. I’ve gotten into a few arguments with my wife over topics that were covered in her degree, but new evidence has contradicted what she was taught.
Like wood cutting boards being more sanitary than plastic. Her biology textbook said plastic was more sanitary, which has been disproven.
Luckily she very rarely uses the, “I have a master’s degree so I know more than you,” card, mostly because I don’t challenge her unless I know I’m right.
The whole “I have a degree” is an appeal to authority logical fallacy anyways, with this being one example why (people just lying is another, though hopefully that one doesn’t come up in a marriage).
And yeah, I’ve also gone through the “once preferred plastic cooking tools, now tries to minimize the amount of contact between plastic and my food”. And I wonder if it made it into that biology textbook the same way it once made it to the top of my preference list: stupid assumptions based on the look and feel.
Btw, if you don’t use ice very often and it ends up sitting in the tray for a long time before you do use it, I highly recommend metal ice cube trays. I’d notice a white film that wouldn’t melt and would float on top of water I put plastic trayed ice in. It had a bad taste… not a strong flavour, but a mildly unpleasant one. I still see white on ice from the metal tray, but it’s just trapped gasses because it doesn’t leave a film on the water and tastes just like frozen water instead of plasticky.
I also notice that frozen veggies smell like that flavour when they are still in the bag. Hard to tell how much of that ends up in the food because the food has a stronger flavour.
I wonder if it could be your water source? We have a fridge ice maker and I’ve never experienced that, but the water line does have its own filter.
I was using water from my RO filter and still am. I noticed it with other ice trays at other locations, but thought it was just something that happened to ice sitting in the freezer rather than coming from the ice tray itself, until I got one of those silicone sphere ice trays that only has a tiny bit exposed and noticed it was worse instead of better. It was also my first non-white ice tray, and I could clearly see the white film that remained on the silicone, which prompted me to buy the metal tray.
Fridge ice makers probably aren’t an issue because the ice doesn’t sit in the tray for very long (which also might be metal). They can sit in a plastic tub for a while before being dispensed, but they don’t have full contact with that plastic, and ice in the middle wouldn’t even have any contact until ice shifts around.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it depends on the type of plastic the tray is made out of, too. Like the silicone being worse might have been due to the plastic itself as much as the higher amount of contact with the ice.
And even without that, the metal one is just nicer to use. It is a normal tray with a metal grid attached to a hinged handle that easily breaks the ice. I’ve had a plastic tray partially snap while trying to twist the ice out, though even when they didn’t break, the ice would also sometimes refuse to break free.
Now that you mention it, I do remember experiencing it with silicone trays, but I mostly used them to freeze blended veggies into cubes for smoothies.