Kids, don't do LDPE!

Friends don't let friends do LDPE! Your wife is going to be pissed off at you for doing it.

Good news... LDPE is not compatible with Nylon... so it doesn't bond with Nylon. But the bad news is that it slumps too much and pretty much disintegrated, making using the bag in the Anova Precision Oven completely moot. Now my oven smells plastic.

It started slumping at about 8 hrs, just like in the previous test. So, I guess in the glass state, LDPE has very low viscosity... so it looked like it melted, but it's not... it just "slumped." It's like glass... technically glass is not exactly a solid, it's an amorphous solid... it flows. The LDPE bag in glass transition state is like that too, just much less viscous.

But because it does not bond with Nylon, it's very easy to peel off. When it cools, it's very easy to get off stainless steel too. So, cleaning up the mess isn't too much of a trouble.... it's the lingering plastic smell that is gonna piss off your wife!

The good news is... the LDPE bag I bought is food safe... so, I am not too worried about using it for food. It's just that I might have to run it through several cycles of cooking empty chamber to clear out the smell. 


Edit: And it doesn't bond well to stainless as well... after it cools to room temperature, you can easily peel it off, finger nail is good enough to pick it off and peel.




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