 Hey y'all, welcome to What Chelsea Eats. Thank you so much for joining me today. I want to talk to you a little bit about cooking with clean cookware. The truth of the matter is that I think we don't recognize how much it affects our bodies when we cook with toxic cookware. The ingredients that they use or the chemicals that they use or the materials that they used to make the product is leaching into our food and when we eat it, we are ingesting all that the pot or pan was made of. So you know how whenever you, I know this has happened when I was a kid. My kids used to do it when they were little, but it was before I knew any better. Now you have like a plastic like Tuberware container, it doesn't have to be Tuberware, it could be Rubbermaid, whatever, you have a Tuberware container and they put their food in that container and they stick it in the microwave and they stick it in there until it's hot and then you take it out and then you see like there's stains in the Tupperware. There are ridges in the Tupperware from where you have microwaved it and cooked that food in there. Well guess what? That food that you cooked in that microwave container is leaching whatever that microwave container was that you cooked it in. Same thing happens when you use a pot or a pan. Like if it's toxic like a nonstick surface like Teflon that kind of stuff, if it's nonstick even though you might have paid a whole lot of money for those pans and you thought they were good cookware, but when you cook with them, what happens is a little bit of leaching happens and it gets into your cookware, I mean into your food as you cook with it and it's all kinds of cookware. So my suggestion for cookware is to find the best cookware that you can afford. First off, it needs to be clean. I like stainless steel. Some people don't like stainless steel. I use stainless steel cookware. I use 360 cookware. I love 360 cookware. I have a discount code for 25% off 360. It's WCE25 if you're interested in it and I love it. It's great cookware, but it's not the cheapest cookware, but the thing about the cookware is I'll have it forever. I'll get tired of it before it wears out. That's the kind of cookware that 360 is. You can use glass cookware. I've had glass cookware before. I don't really know what happened to my glass cookware. It's probably one of those things where my kids probably took glass cookware out of my house whenever they moved out because they didn't have any pots or pans, but I don't really know where that is anymore. There are those green cookware products that I am not well versed in, so I can't answer your question there. The reason that I haven't gotten into them, and this is just the truth, and I don't know this is fact, so don't take this to the bank. They make these products that are green and clean and everything. First of all, I don't think that this is just an opinion. I don't know this for truth, so do your own research on this. I don't know that they last that long. They are still expensive. I don't know that they last very long, and I don't know that whatever this material is that they are using to make the products is all that great either, like long term. For whatever reason, I just got this feeling that we're going to hear in five years, ten years or something that this material that they're using is not good, but I don't know that. That's just the feeling I get. It's not of the say of the Lord or anything like that, so don't come at me with that. But that's why I haven't really gotten into it. But stainless steel, you take care of it, you wash it, you use it, it has stood the test of time. I don't know, but some people don't like stainless steel. I don't know. But all I know is that whatever you decide to do, we have to stop using toxic cookware. We have to. Whatever you see where stuff is peeling off, the pan and stuff like that, that's toxic. It's going in your food. If it can peel off, it's going in your food. Like I said, I like 360. I did two videos on 360 where I did an unboxing and how I feel like the other one was really my opinions about 360. You can look it down in the description box below for those two videos. But for your healing journey. If you're going to eat cooked food, you need to make sure that whatever you're cooking your food in is not toxic. And I'll mention this too, since I mentioned it earlier in the video, about microwave cooking is not healthy either. So if you're sticking stuff in the microwave, it's a lot of radiation and it's toxic and it's not good for if you have some type of reproductive issue. So a few years ago, well, it's actually been five years, I can't believe it. Five years ago, 2018, yeah, late 2018, my husband and I, we redid our kitchen and we bought all new appliances. We bought a new microwave because you need a microwave over the stove. I guess we could have did without it. But now at this point, I probably wouldn't have bought it because about two years ago, the microwave just stopped working. It just doesn't work anymore. I didn't use the microwave, but my husband will put stuff in there or if my kids come over there like microwaving stuff. So they would use the microwave, but one day it just stopped working. So now it doesn't work and I'm not replacing it. I could care less if the microwave works. So I think that was a blessing because I really don't want microwave waves flowing through my house. But anyway, it's just, I just wanted to share that story that I don't use microwaves and we really, if we need to heat our food up, put it in the oven. I have one of those, it's like a toaster oven. It's a Cuisinart toaster oven. I'll link a picture right here so you can see which one I have in case you're interested in it and I'll put a link down below in the description box. But if I'd have something small I need to heat up, it's just me and my husband. I rarely use my oven, but you can heat things up in your oven or just put it in a pot on top of your stove and heat it up. You don't need to have a microwave. Anyway, I hope this has been helpful for you. I pray that you get the message of what I'm saying between eating your food on toxic cookware versus non-toxic cookware because it really is important because these toxins, they go into our body and our organs don't know what to do with that. So it stores it and in our organs and glands and then we start to feel sick because of it. So the best thing we can do is just not use that toxic cookware so we're not adding to the problems. So I say that we do everything that we can to help ourselves live a healthier life within our power and whatever we can't control we just have to trust God that he is going to protect us. But I do think there is a responsibility that we need to take for ourselves to do the absolute best thing we can to take care of our temples because the Holy Spirit lives in us and also it's the only body that we get. We only get one body. Once it's all jacked up and we, you know, we wore it out, it's gone. There's nothing else we can do, but we can do something right now to take good care of ourselves. So I hope this has been helpful, a lot to love to you. I'll talk to you all soon. Take care.