Could and should are two different things here. Plenty of other convenient cooking methods to use to avoid the micro plastics.
Until miners can condense heat output to a heating element cooking with miners is kinda limiting.
A miner heated insulated box to subsidize the heat from a crock pot perhaps?
What about a silicone sous-vide bag? I could also isolate the bag in a separate tank of oil to completely avoid icky miner guck.
I'm not super familiar with the cooking method, but gather the food is in direct contact with plastic during cooking temps... Which is a no go in my wife's kitchen.
I suspect silicon will be one of those things decades from now that's found to not be as safe as the claims make it seem.
(I'm not saying don't do this, I don't care what other people do, but considering scientific research is finding micro plastics in our blood, muscle tissues, including heart, and more it's not something I'd recommend personally. We only get one body. Health over wealth.)
If mining heat could be concentrated it would open up so much more potential.
There's got to be a safe material that is waterproof that can snuggle right up against it to allow for maximum/even conduction of the heat.
Maybe a food safe stainless steel or copper container with a silicon seal? Something like that would probably be at risk of exploding unless there's a pressure release vent I'd assume.
I think it needs to be more like a flexible membrane that can be in direct contact with the food, no air pockets.
The other idea I just had would be to use a regular pot that's mostly submerged in the warm/hot medium being heated by the miner. This would actually mimic how crock pots function.
