Do you use Plastic to warm up food in Mircowave?

I have heard that it is okay to heat your food up in a plastic container but when it starts to make melted spots in the container, then you should not use it anymore because of the toxins in the plastic. Those toxins get in your food that you have heated up. I still use plastic but when it gets melted spots in there, I throw them out and buy new ones. I like plastic because it comes with lids.

I only know it's bad to use plastic that isn't microwave safe was he talking about that kind of plastic I think nearly all the microwaved food I eat has a plastic cover (microwave safe) and a paper plate covered with some thin plastic looking material on top of it. If he was talking about all plastic than I'm in trouble been eating that kind of quick food for years :(

what you are saying is supposed to be true??????????????i have been using plastic since ages to warm food.but i always use cling wrap-a kind of disposible plastic.now i will better use microwavable container.

In fact I try to avoid to use plastic to warm up food in the microwave oven. Plastic stuff isn't safe for the microwave. I use glass stuff to warm up food in the microwave oven and I think it's the safest way. I love China

I use styrofoam wrapped in a coating of arsenic and the cover it with a plate made from plutonium and aspestis (or however you spell it) :) I'm sure just about anything we have today is bad for you. You should not drink from anything in an aluminum can or never re-use a plastic bottle. I'm sure to an extent there is a danger in everything we consume. So I guess I will have to use glass to heat up my sugar free sacran-filled dessert. :) Sorry...I am in a facicious mood today. lol

I have never heard this before, I have used plastic for years and years in the microwave. I have heard things about babies bottles being warmed up in a microwave but never for anything else. I am not sure that I would change what I use in the microwave but I was thinking about getting some new microwave pots, so maybe I will just have a look and see what they have got first before I decide.

I don't use anything plastic when I warm up any foods in the microwave...and I won't eat it if anybody else has done it. When plastics get warm they leach out chemicals used to make the plastic which transfers to the food. I don't even really like storing food in plastic containers, and try and use glass. I've read a lot on this over the years and it doesn't sound like a safe bet to use plastic for heating foods. You know, back when we were kids we hardly ever used plastic for any types of foods. Frozen foods were kept in butcher wrap, leftovers were stored in those glass, or coated metal containers with lids. With the prevalance of so much more cancers in this day and age, it does make you wonder if the introduction of plastics into every part of our lives doesn't have something to do with it, at least in part. I'm not saying we didn't have cancers back then, just that there is so much more of it these days that there has to be an environmental connection somewhere there. We eat on plastic plates, reheat in plastic, drink from plastic bottles (water, etc) have rugs made with plastic fibers, clothes with plastic fibers, shoes, etc, etc, etc. We have surrounded our bodies with petroleum products with everything we eat or do! So no, I won't ever use plastic for foods, especially with reheating them in a microwave!

We don't have a microwave, but if we did, I would mostly use our glass or ceramic bowls to heat things up. Plastic is so much more convenient, but it seems like every year they come out with something else that shows plastic is bad for you.

Thanks for the info. Does it also apply to tupperware which is microwave safe? I'll stick to glass for now I think!

Geez honey, you use plastic containers to hold your food to microwave? Geez!! Always use glass or certified microwavable containers!

Ive used the microwave plastic tubs for a long time and no harm has come from it maybe he means plastic as in the plastic that hasnt been treated to use in microwave ovens,but a major mistake I once made was to put a plate into the microwave,and it was an old plate with a little bit of gilding on the rim,and it made the microwave arc..

I stopped warming foods in plastic a few years ago when I read that it wasn't good. I was going to ask someone I know who works in an industry that makes plastic what she thought, but I never did. Why? Because I noticed that, even though she worked at making plastic, there was not one plastic bowl or dish in her kitchen. That spoke volumes to me.

I have heard about doctors telling not to use plastic,but there are different qualities in plastic.The plastic meant for microwave can be used and not all types of plastic.Tupperware is food grade plastic and that can be used very well.Even the bad quality plastic can be used only once to store food and not more than that.This is what I heard about plastics.

Doesn't everyone use plastic to warm food in the microwave? I always have.

i had heard many times as well that plastic is not good for microwave... so i try my best not to heat my food in the microwave with them... i try to use glass as much as i can... every now and then, i use plastic if i have to... but when i am at home, i try to use glass... take care and have a nice day...

There are stories about how plastic turns into some harm ful chemicle in the microwave. I have read about it but never seen any scientific evidence about it. But never the less I have started putting wax papper over foods that I nuke.

i heard of that before. but i don't have any glass bowls are dishes in my house that i can use in the microwave. i think i should go out and get some next time i am in kmart

If I am warming something up I will put it in one of our corningware cereal dishes. (Just the two of us). I should really get some pyrex dishes, and I no longer use plastics. Of course, there is the "a little too late" that rather bothers me and that maybe the ill effective of plastics over the years may be cumulative and non reversible. But maybe they are wrong and the bad effects can be reversed. I hope so. I hope it was not that there were not that many of us pre baby boomers that they really did not care.

I heard something about it to - the plastic melts into the food or portions of the plastic, something like that, but if I remember right, it was on e of those things that you have to do excessively for it to bother you - like if you just have a small container of Mac nad Cheese, and you heat it up - no problem, but if you acutally bake something in plastic (who bakes in plastic anyway?!!) and do it often it can cause something or another. I dont use plastic simply cause of clean up - it nukes the food or moisture right into the plastic container making it hard to wash it and get all that out so it is not there to bake into the next food item you put in the container. Plastic absorbes if there are scratches in the plastic - something like that. And nuking plastic makes the plastic weak so the container can "melt in your hands" where a glass container won't. It will be interesting to see where this discussion goes, mariciascott!