Avoiding lead in kitchenware

Post date: 2018-01-12 12:45:57

How do you avoid lead in kitchenware? Also if you have tips for not overthinking stuff like this, please share them.

I jokingly say I must've been poisoned in a past life because articles like this one stick in my memory. And apparently we're supposed to worry about cadmium too? (Googling about lead in dishes gives a lot of articles about "lead and cadmium.")

(A) The internet seems kind of vague about how to make sure your dishes and cookware are safe. I found posts about Le Crueset, which is one we actually have. Should I be investing hundreds in new cookware, hundreds in lead tests, or can I... not?

(B) And we need to buy some new dishes. Tips on finding ones without this issue?

(C) We were lucky enough to receive an Instant Pot as a gift for the holidays. I really want one! Then I ran across this, in which they test an Instant Pot and find lead in that heavy heating disk underneath the bowl that food is cooked in. Part of me thinks, be practical, that won't touch your food, and the other part of me thinks about various ways that could still get into food or my toddler's mouth. I wonder if I won't always be kinda thinking about it. It just seems like a bad idea to have in one's kitchen -- or am I making too much of that?

(D) I'd sure love to be one of those people who doesn't worry about invisible, hard-to-research issues like this! If you have tips about becoming one, I'm all ears. While I'd like to dismiss it as overthinking, with a young kid and an issue that's cumulative where less is always better, I'm not 100 percent sure it is?

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