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by hirsin 670 days ago
I was ready to go along with that but uh, it converts down to urethane. Let's maybe let people take the hit on their bread not being so fluffy (and probably more profitable) to avoid extra urethane in our food.

Similarly with a sibling comment about how we use condom lubricant in cooking oils, maybe we just shouldn't?

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Isn't the yeast also producing urethane?

And metabolic pathways are very complicated, you can't really judge whether something is a problem by looking at intermediates that exist in tiny quantities.