Packing breakfast is a sense of ceremony for young people.
Nowadays, the pace of life of many young people is getting faster and faster. Some young people live far away from their work, so it is normal to spend more than an hour going back and forth to work every day. Therefore, in order to gain more sleep time for themselves, many young people will find a breakfast shop outside, spend a few dollars on a meal, and sometimes pack things away in order to catch up with time. Breakfast is a very important meal in China, and the temperature of most breakfasts is very high, such as porridge, fried dough sticks, Hu spicy soup and so on, which are typical representatives of delicious food at high temperature. When packing for customers, these vendors will put a plastic bag in a bowl, and then tie the plastic bag directly for people to take away.
In some hot stalls, they even put a plastic bag directly in the bowl. Diners will throw away the plastic bags after eating and replace them with new ones, which is convenient and easy, saving manpower and time for washing dishes and reducing costs. Therefore, using plastic bags instead of washing dishes has become the choice of many vendors.
Food-grade plastic bags are safe and non-toxic, but the cost is high.
This has also caused some people to worry about food safety. Breakfast is so steaming, plastic bags are chemical products. After being scalded by high temperature, will there be no chemical reaction to produce toxins?
It is normal to have such doubts. There are indeed food-grade plastic bags in China, but the raw materials of this food-grade plastic bag are several thousand yuan a ton, and the cost is very high. Moreover, China stipulates that if it is a food-grade plastic bag, it must be clearly marked, and those plastic bags on the road are clean. Where is the sign? Therefore, it can be seen that most plastic bags used in roadside stalls are unsafe.
Cost affects food safety, and it is safest to bring your own lunch box.
The prime time of breakfast vendors is only two hours. Most of these stalls selling breakfast are husband and wife stalls or one person. Two people can also be responsible for one selling and one processing. If they sell their own breakfast, they must use plastic bags to improve production efficiency, and most breakfast prices are relatively low, such as fried dough sticks for one yuan, which means that there is not much money if the cost is included. If they really use that food-grade plastic bag, I think there will be no profit and cost.
I think if you are really worried about the toxin problem, you might as well go to the supermarket to buy an incubator yourself, and let the merchants store it directly in the incubator when you go out to eat, so that you can take it away and ensure food safety. These plastic bags are filled with hot dishes of more than 70 degrees, which are very easy to burn through. Even if you don't wear it, the side that touches the food will start to react chemically. If you eat takeout for a long time, it will definitely have an impact on your health. Let's just say that we should try to avoid packing high-temperature food in plastic bags. If it is really unavoidable, you'd better prepare a lunch box yourself.