I suck at sciences so can anyone please tell me why my stainless steel spoon was bent when I took it out from stirring my tomato soup for 5 minutes? It’s still bendy now when I tried to put it back in shape. Have I just eaten a bowl of metals? Can cutlery melt/leech? It wasn’t bendy before I stirred my soup, so my health anxiety is going wild now and I’d love someone smarter to explain
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If your soup was hot enough to make the metal flexible, it’s either only a stainless steel cladding over a MUCH softer metal, or whoever sold you that utensil straight-up lied to you.
Getting actual steel to be flexible like that requires heating it up to something like 300 C and keeping it there for a long time. Water can’t get that hot.
Do you know the manufacturer? Often utensils will have a maker’s mark or some other brand indicator on them, on the handle part.
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