1, the main component of chopstick paint
Oil: The oil on chopsticks mainly includes drying oil and semi-drying oil, which is one of the main film-forming substances.
Resin: The paint on chopsticks contains resin, including natural resin and artificial resin, which is also a part of film-forming substances.
Pigment: The paint on chopsticks contains pigment, which generally includes colored pigment, body pigment and antirust pigment, and is a secondary substance for film formation.
Diluent: the paint on chopsticks contains diluent, mainly solvent and diluent, which is mainly used to dissolve the above substances and adjust viscosity.
Accessories: The paint on chopsticks contains accessories, mainly drier, curing agent, plasticizer, moisture-proof agent, etc., which belong to auxiliary film-forming substances.
2. Is the paint on chopsticks poisonous?
Poisonous
Chopsticks coated with oil and paint are generally toxic, just because there are fewer toxic components, which will not cause serious organ damage to the human body. However, due to the carcinogenicity of heavy metal lead and stupid organic solvents in paint, chopsticks containing paint will wear slowly with the increase of use times for a long time, and eventually some paint will enter the human body and endanger people's health.
3. How to remove the paint from chopsticks?
1. Blanch with boiling water for half an hour and add salt.
2. You can also soak in lemon juice or white vinegar for half an hour.
3. Put some grapefruit peel or orange peel in rice washing water, add salt or vinegar, and cook chopsticks for half an hour.
4. What kind of chopsticks should I choose?
Among the colorful chopsticks paints, the never-drying silver chopsticks have poor hand feel, strong thermal conductivity and easy to burn their mouths. It is recommended that you use natural chopsticks, bamboo chopsticks are the first choice, non-toxic, harmless and environmentally friendly. Secondly, you can choose natural wooden chopsticks.
Note: Bamboo chopsticks and wooden chopsticks are not easy to be clear and easily contaminated by pathogenic microorganisms. Pay attention to frequent disinfection and keep them clean.
5. How to maintain chopsticks?
1. Family members should try not to mix chopsticks, because mixing chopsticks can easily cause cross-infection of some diseases, among which Helicobacter pylori is a common pathogen in human body, chopsticks are the main medium, and the main influence on human body is stomach disease.
2. Wash chopsticks thoroughly. The correct way is to wash chopsticks carefully with detergent, drain the water and put them in the chopsticks tube, which should be the kind that leaks water.
3. The chopsticks used should be changed frequently. Once chopsticks are used for a long time, the surface is no longer smooth, and the surface becomes rough, and many tiny grooves appear. These grooves are easy to remain bacteria, so it is best to change chopsticks once every six months.
6. Disinfection method of chopsticks
(1) Cooking method
Cooking is more suitable to help our lives. After washing chopsticks, we can put them in the water. Boil the water for about 30 minutes. Boiling time is too short to achieve disinfection effect. If it is convenient, you can steam chopsticks directly in the steamer. Because the temperature of water vapor is relatively high, it only takes 10 minute.
(2) Microwave oven method
Microwave sterilization is convenient, but it only takes 3-5 minutes to grasp the fire in the printing plate from the temperature and time. Things in the microwave oven may not have a good disinfection effect.
(3) Household disinfection cabinet
Now many families will bring their own disinfection cabinets. But when the disinfection cabinet is disinfected, the temperature should not be too high, especially when there are plastic chopsticks inside.