On 18/09/2018 09:24, Martin Brown wrote:

If you are getting regular false alarms like that then you aren't
cooking your food you are burning it to a cinder with associated risks
of making carcinogenic compounds like acrylamide in the resulting char.


An alternative hypothesis is that he is cooking food with flavours which
he enjoys, despite such warnings, in order to enhance his quality of
life and increasing the sum total of his quality-adjusted life years
(QALYs)[1]. I'd call that sensible DIY QALY control.

He may also be doing so in full knowledge that the warnings about
acrylamide are based largely on the precautionary principle.

And when you say "burning it to a cinder" he - like me - might say
"triggering the Maillard reaction".

Now I'm off to have another strong coffee. Full of acrylamide. But
where even the FDA don't think a warning is needed. As confirmed only
last month in a much more even comment on the issue.

https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsr.../ucm618883.htm




[1] for this purpose I use QALY to mean not just a year in "perfect
health" but also with desired level of happiness.

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Robin
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