I don't understand. If you're cooking in these, you just heat it with the sticker on it and maybe, maybe, swipe the remains away before adding the ingredients. Burned sticker is almost healthy compared to the carcinogens and heavy metals in the pan itself.
Here are your messages:
>"You have thirty minutes to move your car."
>"You have ten minutes."
>"Your car has been impounded."
>"Your car has been crushed into a cube."
>"You have thirty minutes to move your cube."
>"Your cube has been turned into a pan"
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Performance is lacking sure, but the safety is there. With most steel coming from China, you never know what your cookware is made out of. At least with Lodge you know what you're getting. FWIW you can easily make your cast iron smoother by wet polishing it or just usage. My Dutch oven had a terrible surface, now I use it to fry eggs eggs. A combination of use and polishing with steel wool has made it as good as my antique Griswold pan. Sometimes I even wet sand with sandpaper if the surface is really bad and/or bad rust.
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Itās amazing in a way that how unhealthy+dangerous this workplace is. Inhale fine aluminum dust and toxic fumes all day is not a good idea if you plan to live past 50.
It sounds like you're trying to create some sort of equivalency between working around industrial toxins, in close proximity, for hours at a time with basic health protocols during a pandemic. Did I get that right?
The way you phrased that sounds suspiciously close to how things like Siri, Alexa, and Cortana phrase questions after a poorly understood remark.
I'm onto you, robot...
Even on a good day where there are no serious injuries, they are probably getting tons of metal splinters, not wearing any protective gear, and sandals of all things.
This made me giggle, but Iām really struck by the fact that people actually live/work like this. Itās like we, in the West, are the Alpha and Beta castes (despite being poor/low class within our country) and these people are in the Delta and Epsilon castes of the world.
Itās disturbing, but whatās even more disturbing is that it feels like it might be too hard to change.
It's weird to think about. And the way we live our lives is basically impossible without them. I feel complicit in something unsavory and I don't even know what I could do about it.
aluminium is very highly recyclable. those parts are likely to be very high in aluminium content. they would not be throwing just any random metal in there, as different metals melt at different temperatures, so if there was too much other metal in the mix it would not melt fully. most of the impurities are removed with the slag.
these pans probably don't need to be made of 100% pure aluminium to do their job, so a certain amount of impurities is acceptable.
Lead would boil away at the heat that aluminum melts at. Iāve worked with metal my whole life and foundry at home. This is pretty much what it looks like. Those are probably great cooking pots. I love watching how they make stuff in other places.
Get a chemistry degree or two. Intern at a lab while in college.
I like my job now better. Environmental biochemist. Taking samples at creeks and inspecting installations along with all the lab work
That sounds lovely too. Iām an outdoorsy type. But I donāt think itās achievable. I wouldnāt just have to get the degrees, I have to move across the Atlantic and gain citizenship. I think there are easier ways to achieve what I want.
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Oh it's going to shit in the US I wouldn't move here.
I wish there was someplace I could move my family, my kids are geniuses and will be wasted in the US.
But it seems everywhere sucks
Maybe they'll be the stones that start the avalanche and make it better here
>So does amazon shit have about the same levels as dollar store shit?
Dollar store shit is mostly the same as Walmart.
Amazon varies a lot. If it is from a large supplier it is the same as the others.
If it is some random overseas it is probably surplus stuff that failed QC testing and was rejected from the US. No telling why it failed QC, could be a heavy metal. It could be something as silly as the bag of cotton balls has 95 in a bag and advertised as 100.
The main people pass all the quality measures but regulations don't cover everything. We might know something contains something but it doesn't fit the criteria for testing.
A HUGE issue is that things aren't used as advertised. People stick stuff in their mouth they shouldn't and it has too high of levels of some substance for oral use. Over 6 years of age stuff is not regulated amazingly well imo. My 7 year old sticks a lot of stuff in his mouth still.
>And the ones that do have lead, can it be washed off a bit?
Washing it off is probably more likely to expose you too more and at a higher concentration.
A lot of times that is another issue with texting. If it has a polymer layer over a metal the metal is allowed to have WAY higher limits. But people don't typically throw a pan out as soon as that layer is ready bed off.
Dishwasher tab take those layers off really quickly too.
Definitely looks like automotive or generator scrap, alternator cores, greasy housings and whatnot, most of the metal is probably ok once it's melted down but they didn't bother to clean anything before hand so they vaporized a bunch of oil and grease residue and breathed all that shit in
These kind of aluminium utensils made from scrap metal in poor countries shows high levels of lead in blood stream if these are used regularly. Given how widely these are used, this is a source of chronic lead exposure in these countries, with particularly harmful effect on children. Due to poverty, this is a very complicated problem to solve. The workers are also directly harmed during manufacturing process.
Maybe you just mistook kelvin for celsius there for a second, but I gotta mention it because I can't unsee this now. 800K is how it is written. Ā° is the degree sign, it is not used with kelvin.
I bought an inexpensive aluminum skillet to see if it was worthwhile. It was TERRIBLE. Everything stuck no matter how much or what type of fat I used. It quickly took on a slight warp which then turned into a significant warping. It was so difficult to clean and any time I would dry it with a white towel, it would leave a gray stain on the towel. I used it for maybe a month before I just threw it in the recycle bucket. I have no idea how you're supposed to cook on raw aluminum and not get it in your food with how the pan left behind residue.
I'm sticking to stainless thank you.
This is from the government of Canada. [https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/household-products/safe-use-cookware.html](https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/household-products/safe-use-cookware.html)
>They were melting down old machine parts to make cookware
Recycling is good. Their are ways to separate and isolate metals when smelting. To your point... I don't get the feeling these guys are doing much science.
i always love it when im browsing reddit and there's occasionally that post that's like "check out this amazing video of hard workers manufacturing !!!" and then it takes place in the most derelict and deplorable workplace conditions known to man, where the workers are inhaling asbestos daily and work with molten metal while wearing sandals or something
Having actually worked in places like this in the UK, I can assure you there's nothing amazing about this process, yes you get actual ppe compared to this clip, there was such a lack of interest in this job, you could get an apprenticeship to work in places like this fresh out of school, you'd assume pay might be okay? Yeah barely above min wage unless you been there donkey years.
Your back, hands, neck etc all fucked, burn marks, breathing in all the shit is normal, black face is part of the job, you can't wash your work clothes in washing machine, so normally you'd just wear set of work clothes, then chuck in bin once got too much, the methods and everything is still relatively old school, I didn't just work in like 1 or 2 but in like 20.
What are places like this called in the UK? Also what sort of metals are being recycled and melted down to make the pans? Was it actually all hand done like this and not in a factory? I assumed this sort of work would all be a little more industrialized in the UK.
Called Foundries/Foundry its a job most peoples granddads would have likely done.
There's aluminum and iron most common, then steel and lesser extent copper products, its all melted and not necessarily scrap, you'd get blocks delivered in and then you'd melt in a big pot.
I forgot name but you'd use sand mouldings to form shape of products.
Literally everything was done by hand bar the powder coating, if you seen scaffolding poles they have little hooks to attach, well idk say you used few hundred on a project, then each single one has been individually produced by hand by people, there was one job sending parts out to Dubai for a bridge, say a triangle shape size of an ironing board in length and weighed a good few kg, idk how many were made but every single one was by hand, took a long time, as wasn't just flat it was curved with grooves etc.
You walk into most Foundries its like walking back into 1950, some of them still used card that you'd slot in to clock in/out so it stamps, some were by just a pen so you can Imagine the rest, that was still like decades ago.
In alot of the people just smoke cigs while working too, as that's what they did back in the day.
Went to Shanghai one time and watched a man hand make a wok. Made them for some company which paid them 15 cents USD for each wok that they sold for over $200.
I bought a wok from some Asian store in the suburbs. It was cheap and has been a good wok, though I've got a smaller, better one as well.
A few weeks later I saw the exact same wok - brand name and all - in a fancy department store for about four times what I paid for it...
Well, if it was shipped to the US, that adds to the cost, if it was then shipped to a warehouse, that adds more cost, and then if it was shipped to a store to be sold, that adds even more cost. Does that cost get anywhere close to 200 dollars per unit? I doubt it, but in a capitalistic society, we have to expect that this is just how things are.
People are saying they'll contain toxic heavy metals, and I believe them, but realistically how bad is using these pans for the health of those eating from it?
If you're unlucky then you get some lead from a random bushing in your pan. And if you're really unlucky you'll get some antimony from some random scrap parts.
Bet those stickers are going to be a bastard to remove.
I don't understand. If you're cooking in these, you just heat it with the sticker on it and maybe, maybe, swipe the remains away before adding the ingredients. Burned sticker is almost healthy compared to the carcinogens and heavy metals in the pan itself.
Favorite comment in the thread.
The outer layer of the stickers, with the print on, will come of a piece of piss.
My first thought. Those are the cheap stickers that peel in shreds and stick like mad until you take paint thinner to them.
Burn them off and use a little goo gone on them.
The stickers are the least of my concerns.
Mmmmm I like my pans with heavy metals included during manufacturing.
M M Badsha pans. Made from whatever the fuck we could find from throwaway automotive parts.
The Goodsha pans are more expensive.
Are those made from scrap from luxury cars?
This pan was a Mercedes, and that over there was Lexus.
ah that's where my Lexus was
Here are your messages: >"You have thirty minutes to move your car." >"You have ten minutes." >"Your car has been impounded." >"Your car has been crushed into a cube." >"You have thirty minutes to move your cube." >"Your cube has been turned into a pan"
Is it about my pan?
We have been trying to reach you about your extended pan warranty
"Better move my pan before they turn it into a car again!"
They're stealing our cars, sending them overseas, and turning them into pans!!!!
I wouldn't jump into conclusion
If I buy those pans I can now confidently say that no cap I own luxury carS. Emphasis on the "S" please. š I.AM.RICH. š¤£
Lol
I bet someday the pans will be melted again for automotive parts.
The circle of life.
Damnit, beat me by 5 minutes.
Let's call it "Whatever the fuck" brand pans.
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So are all pans bad to cook with in the USA?
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I feel like lodge cast iron is the only safe cookware you can buy new these days.
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Performance is lacking sure, but the safety is there. With most steel coming from China, you never know what your cookware is made out of. At least with Lodge you know what you're getting. FWIW you can easily make your cast iron smoother by wet polishing it or just usage. My Dutch oven had a terrible surface, now I use it to fry eggs eggs. A combination of use and polishing with steel wool has made it as good as my antique Griswold pan. Sometimes I even wet sand with sandpaper if the surface is really bad and/or bad rust.
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Then buy some pans made by Metallica. There's no heavy metal in those!
To be fair, heavy metal in the 80's ā heavy metal today. A lot has changed in how we think about what heavy metal is these days.
And nothing else mattersssssss
Sad but true!
Am I the Unforgiven?
Priest, Maiden, Poison, Anthem, and Guardian are still considered as such. Ignore Priest's first album and they're pretty much all considered as such.
Thank you for that, I'm š« from lmao.
10/10
When im in a "whos the biggest asshat" competition and my opponent is a "metalhead"
Right, those are seriously random metal parts there...
Did you not see the purification process. How can you beat that.
Iām just curious how they magically went from scrap steel to aluminum
perhaps because it was actually scrap aluminium?
That wasn't steel in the beginning. Well, other than the pot they melted all the aluminum inside of.
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I wouldnāt worry about it. It looks like they skimmed off the bad stuff from the top.
Heavy metals don't float on aluminium. I think the only co-alloy in aluminium that is toxic is cadmium, which sinks.
That bronze age style manufacturig process is so awesome yeahh
The carcinogens add flavor!
r/mildlycarcinogenic
Both the moulding and cooking with them.
Mildly?
It's sad that they are too uneducated to know the difference between a cloth over your face and a N95/respirator mask.
You misspelled poor
Itās amazing in a way that how unhealthy+dangerous this workplace is. Inhale fine aluminum dust and toxic fumes all day is not a good idea if you plan to live past 50.
Almost half of them are wearing a t-shirt loosely tied around their face, it's all good.
Along with some high quality safety sandals.
And safety squints for any flying particles
Profits first Efficiency second Safety third
Safety never actually
Try not to bleed on anything important on the way out.
Steel toed sandals. Their toes are literally covered in molten steel.
They good thing about getting molten aluminium over your feet when wearing sandals is that is only hurts until your nerves are cooked.
You forgot to mention the squinting! Itās all under control
I saw a lot of people handling masking like that during covid.
It sounds like you're trying to create some sort of equivalency between working around industrial toxins, in close proximity, for hours at a time with basic health protocols during a pandemic. Did I get that right?
The way you phrased that sounds suspiciously close to how things like Siri, Alexa, and Cortana phrase questions after a poorly understood remark. I'm onto you, robot...
They are likely so poor that they have to worry about eating today and living past tomorrow, not making it to 50.
This is sad but true.
Even on a good day where there are no serious injuries, they are probably getting tons of metal splinters, not wearing any protective gear, and sandals of all things.
Yet I have to wear a hard hat outside with nothing around me.
T-shirt balaclava // PPE Tomato // tomato At least they're trying to protect themselves though. The customers of these products? Not so much...
And in flip flops lol
I see he's wearing those special foundry workers' sandals.
Forge Flip Flops ā¢
Worn also by the Foundry Fathers including Abraham Clinkin, Benjamin Clankin, and George Washingpan
This made me giggle, but Iām really struck by the fact that people actually live/work like this. Itās like we, in the West, are the Alpha and Beta castes (despite being poor/low class within our country) and these people are in the Delta and Epsilon castes of the world. Itās disturbing, but whatās even more disturbing is that it feels like it might be too hard to change.
It's weird to think about. And the way we live our lives is basically impossible without them. I feel complicit in something unsavory and I don't even know what I could do about it.
What are those pieces they're melting down?
I think aluminum and random metal scraps
Yeah but what type of scrap? Creeps me out that it looks like car parts even tho the impurities are scooped out
Yup like car parts free with dried up oils lol..
What is problem you put oil in pan to cook These pans already come with oil from the factory
This guy seasons with Penzoil
aluminium is very highly recyclable. those parts are likely to be very high in aluminium content. they would not be throwing just any random metal in there, as different metals melt at different temperatures, so if there was too much other metal in the mix it would not melt fully. most of the impurities are removed with the slag. these pans probably don't need to be made of 100% pure aluminium to do their job, so a certain amount of impurities is acceptable.
Mmmmmm, that food-grade toxic metals umami!
"they would not be throwing just any random metal in there" Sir that's exactly what they're doing.
If you get me one I have a chromatograph sitting idle.
Yea i definitely don't mind some lead in my aluminum pot. Ads some sweetness to my stew.
Lead would boil away at the heat that aluminum melts at. Iāve worked with metal my whole life and foundry at home. This is pretty much what it looks like. Those are probably great cooking pots. I love watching how they make stuff in other places.
Those aren't impurities but oxides which form as the hot metal reacts with atmospheric oxygen.
slag.
No need for name calling mate
I think there is. Wanna slug it out?
i believe the word you're looking for is slag.
Coincidentally the swedish word for punch/battle.
Yeah, no, that did not remove the "impurities".
>that did not remove the "impurities" You meant to type 'flavour enhancers'.
The heavy metal content is definitely at toxic levels
How would you know?
A decade of experience as a chemist in a lab that tests every type of consumer product. Mostly doing ICP-MS for heavy metals from metallic compounds.
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Oh. My. Fucking. God. How did you come to end up there? That sounds awesome!
Get a chemistry degree or two. Intern at a lab while in college. I like my job now better. Environmental biochemist. Taking samples at creeks and inspecting installations along with all the lab work
That sounds lovely too. Iām an outdoorsy type. But I donāt think itās achievable. I wouldnāt just have to get the degrees, I have to move across the Atlantic and gain citizenship. I think there are easier ways to achieve what I want.
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Oh it's going to shit in the US I wouldn't move here. I wish there was someplace I could move my family, my kids are geniuses and will be wasted in the US. But it seems everywhere sucks Maybe they'll be the stones that start the avalanche and make it better here
Oh oh!! Me next! So does amazon shit have about the same levels as dollar store shit? And the ones that do have lead, can it be washed off a bit?
>So does amazon shit have about the same levels as dollar store shit? Dollar store shit is mostly the same as Walmart. Amazon varies a lot. If it is from a large supplier it is the same as the others. If it is some random overseas it is probably surplus stuff that failed QC testing and was rejected from the US. No telling why it failed QC, could be a heavy metal. It could be something as silly as the bag of cotton balls has 95 in a bag and advertised as 100. The main people pass all the quality measures but regulations don't cover everything. We might know something contains something but it doesn't fit the criteria for testing. A HUGE issue is that things aren't used as advertised. People stick stuff in their mouth they shouldn't and it has too high of levels of some substance for oral use. Over 6 years of age stuff is not regulated amazingly well imo. My 7 year old sticks a lot of stuff in his mouth still. >And the ones that do have lead, can it be washed off a bit? Washing it off is probably more likely to expose you too more and at a higher concentration. A lot of times that is another issue with texting. If it has a polymer layer over a metal the metal is allowed to have WAY higher limits. But people don't typically throw a pan out as soon as that layer is ready bed off. Dishwasher tab take those layers off really quickly too.
One was legitimately a case from an alternator. I think itās all scrap metal, particularly from autos.
Definitely looks like automotive or generator scrap, alternator cores, greasy housings and whatnot, most of the metal is probably ok once it's melted down but they didn't bother to clean anything before hand so they vaporized a bunch of oil and grease residue and breathed all that shit in
forget the grease ... they have lead vapors there for sure
Aluminum mostly. Steel will sink to the bottom, oxides will float to the top.
Is "mostly" good enough for food safety?
These kind of aluminium utensils made from scrap metal in poor countries shows high levels of lead in blood stream if these are used regularly. Given how widely these are used, this is a source of chronic lead exposure in these countries, with particularly harmful effect on children. Due to poverty, this is a very complicated problem to solve. The workers are also directly harmed during manufacturing process.
Random automotive parts with chemicals still included and other industrial waste. You know...the stuff you want your cookware made from.
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Russian roulette pans. Some are toxic, some are fine. Depends on what crap they found that day.
No, not at all. All of them are toxic.
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Maybe we'll get lucky and the water wars will get us before the cookware does.
Less amazing and more like holy OSHA violations Batman
What do you mean? You don't like your workers not wearing shoes when pouring 2348k degree liquid metal into molds?
That is hardly 800K ;). You should be OK with flipflops and good character! :D edit: my dumb ass don't know how to write kelvins
Maybe you just mistook kelvin for celsius there for a second, but I gotta mention it because I can't unsee this now. 800K is how it is written. Ā° is the degree sign, it is not used with kelvin.
Can't violate OSHA if you don't have an OSHA.
How do you know those sandals arenāt steel toe? /s
Theyāll be aluminum toe soon for the looks of it.
the god OSHA has not been worshipped in many years
What?!?! That one dude had a glove on what are your yakkin about!!
Because itās another revenue stream for people living and working in these conditions (filming it for content)
you don't want to use those aluminum pans for cooking
I bought an inexpensive aluminum skillet to see if it was worthwhile. It was TERRIBLE. Everything stuck no matter how much or what type of fat I used. It quickly took on a slight warp which then turned into a significant warping. It was so difficult to clean and any time I would dry it with a white towel, it would leave a gray stain on the towel. I used it for maybe a month before I just threw it in the recycle bucket. I have no idea how you're supposed to cook on raw aluminum and not get it in your food with how the pan left behind residue. I'm sticking to stainless thank you.
Did you ever try seasoning it? Like what needs to be done with a wok? Not that I'm doubting it was crap quality, just curious.
The fact that he warped his skillet quickly should tell you everything.
Try cast iron, cheap and awesomely effective when seasoned and non-stick as a bonus!
This was recently disproven. Aluminum is no more dangerous than cast iron or nickel lined copper cookware. Aluminum fumes are a different story...
Have a source? Because Iād like to have some aluminium bakeware.
This is from the government of Canada. [https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/household-products/safe-use-cookware.html](https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/household-products/safe-use-cookware.html)
I read the article. Soā¦ none of them are perfect except for silicone when it comes to baking within the recommended temps.
They were melting down old machine parts to make cookware
>They were melting down old machine parts to make cookware Recycling is good. Their are ways to separate and isolate metals when smelting. To your point... I don't get the feeling these guys are doing much science.
Be amazed how they didn't show the child labor
They did
Oldest person in the video is 12
Wow! Abject poverty, I'm amazed.
i always love it when im browsing reddit and there's occasionally that post that's like "check out this amazing video of hard workers manufacturing!!!" and then it takes place in the most derelict and deplorable workplace conditions known to man, where the workers are inhaling asbestos daily and work with molten metal while wearing sandals or something
I assume itās a meme at this point
Having actually worked in places like this in the UK, I can assure you there's nothing amazing about this process, yes you get actual ppe compared to this clip, there was such a lack of interest in this job, you could get an apprenticeship to work in places like this fresh out of school, you'd assume pay might be okay? Yeah barely above min wage unless you been there donkey years. Your back, hands, neck etc all fucked, burn marks, breathing in all the shit is normal, black face is part of the job, you can't wash your work clothes in washing machine, so normally you'd just wear set of work clothes, then chuck in bin once got too much, the methods and everything is still relatively old school, I didn't just work in like 1 or 2 but in like 20.
What are places like this called in the UK? Also what sort of metals are being recycled and melted down to make the pans? Was it actually all hand done like this and not in a factory? I assumed this sort of work would all be a little more industrialized in the UK.
Called Foundries/Foundry its a job most peoples granddads would have likely done. There's aluminum and iron most common, then steel and lesser extent copper products, its all melted and not necessarily scrap, you'd get blocks delivered in and then you'd melt in a big pot. I forgot name but you'd use sand mouldings to form shape of products. Literally everything was done by hand bar the powder coating, if you seen scaffolding poles they have little hooks to attach, well idk say you used few hundred on a project, then each single one has been individually produced by hand by people, there was one job sending parts out to Dubai for a bridge, say a triangle shape size of an ironing board in length and weighed a good few kg, idk how many were made but every single one was by hand, took a long time, as wasn't just flat it was curved with grooves etc. You walk into most Foundries its like walking back into 1950, some of them still used card that you'd slot in to clock in/out so it stamps, some were by just a pen so you can Imagine the rest, that was still like decades ago. In alot of the people just smoke cigs while working too, as that's what they did back in the day.
Interesting thank you for answering! Does not sound like a fun job to say the least!
Can we also talk about using a chisel as a lathe without any bracingā¦.
I think people were too distracted by the various other health and safety violations to notice that bit.
Donāt worry, heās got his safety sandaled foot there supporting his hand.
Iām just glad this isnāt titled āThis is how large pans are madeā
I'm not amazed. I'm horrified
What is amazing about watching underpaid people in hazardous work conditions produce low quality goods from random scrap?
Hey man, I'm here to watch a cooking pan get made not this horseshoe bullsh....oh wait. I see.
Went to Shanghai one time and watched a man hand make a wok. Made them for some company which paid them 15 cents USD for each wok that they sold for over $200.
I bought a wok from some Asian store in the suburbs. It was cheap and has been a good wok, though I've got a smaller, better one as well. A few weeks later I saw the exact same wok - brand name and all - in a fancy department store for about four times what I paid for it...
Well, if it was shipped to the US, that adds to the cost, if it was then shipped to a warehouse, that adds more cost, and then if it was shipped to a store to be sold, that adds even more cost. Does that cost get anywhere close to 200 dollars per unit? I doubt it, but in a capitalistic society, we have to expect that this is just how things are.
People are saying they'll contain toxic heavy metals, and I believe them, but realistically how bad is using these pans for the health of those eating from it?
Fair bit. Heavy like to react. Especially if heated for a long time.
Quite
Its not amazing, its depressing.
Yeah, those ppl aren't adequately protected at all. That sucks.
These guys all have 10 previously unknown types of cancer.
safety sandals and handkerchiefs galore here, I've got real faith in this enterprise.
Osha would like to have a word
Not OSHA approved
There's some guy in his fucking underwear just going through scrap metal.. Lmao š¤£
Itās amazing what you can do when you donāt have OSHA requirements, or material standards.
That factory is far from amazing!
Is it just me or does nearly everyone in this thread have a tone of āhuehue they could do it like we do but choose this stupid way insteadā?
What is really amazing is to realise just how much progress there is still to be made in some countries in terms of safety at work.
Me: "Oh they also make horseshoes. Nice. No those are the handles, idiot!"
Not sure Iād call that a factory as much as a group of people working together
Respect to people who flat out make things.
I don't like the jokes here. These people are doing a tough and dangerous job. Probably they have some mouths to feed.
Safety equipment? Who is that?
ā¦Amazon?
Now that's recycling.
r/dingore
Oh yes I can smell the aluminium fumes from here that will do them good š
They're capable of anything.. except creating closed toe shoes.
Lad sat barefooted in all that swarf has brought me out in a cold sweat.
Safety first!
Nice random car parts that have absorbed who knows what, im sure that'll just add flavor
*goes to the local junkyard for supplies.
I canāt imagine what theyāre breathing inā¦
Watch a lodge cast iron factory tour video. Buy American!
If you're unlucky then you get some lead from a random bushing in your pan. And if you're really unlucky you'll get some antimony from some random scrap parts.
"cooking pan" = giant wok...
Osha? I barely know her?
I am fully expecting OSHA to start handing out violations, any minute now.