​Things to avoid using barbecue grills

1. Do not use painted or engraved bamboo chopsticks in the barbecue grill. The paint painted on chopsticks contains chemicals such as lead and benzene, which are harmful to health. Carved bamboo chopsticks may look beautiful, but they easily harbor dirt, breed bacteria, and are difficult to clean.

2. Do not use all kinds of colorful porcelain to hold condiments in the barbecue stove. Ingredients are best served in glass vessels. Colored porcelain contains lead, benzene and other pathogenic and carcinogens. As the colored porcelain ages and decays, the radon in the pattern pigments pollutes food and is harmful to the human body.

3. Avoid cooking mung beans in iron pots on barbecue stoves. Because mung beans contain elemental tannins, when exposed to iron under high temperature conditions, they will turn into black tannic iron, which will turn the mung bean soup black and have a special smell, which not only affects appetite and taste, but is also harmful to the human body.

4. Avoid using stainless steel or iron pots to cook traditional Chinese medicine in barbecue grills. Because traditional Chinese medicine contains a variety of alkaloids and various biochemical substances, under heating conditions, various chemical reactions will occur with stainless steel or iron, which will render the medicine ineffective and even produce certain toxicity.

5. Avoid using ebony or wood with peculiar smell as chopping board. Ebony wood contains odor and toxic substances. Using it as a cutting board will not only contaminate the dishes, but also easily cause vomiting, dizziness, and abdominal pain.