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Clay & Consequence What your cookware is quietly adding to your bloodstream — and what a lump of fired earth can do about it

This is not a scare story. It is a materials story — the kind that gets less attention than it deserves because pots and pans are, by design, meant to be invisible. Nobody thinks about their cookware the way they think about their skincare or their supplements. And yet cookware touches food at its most vulnerable moment: hot, wet, often acidic, for extended periods of time. Chemistry does not pause for convenience.