Oh god, I've melted a knife in the oven. Meat still safe to eat?

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I'm such an idiot.

I just went to take the pork out of the oven, and on the roasting tray is my knife. In a pool of black liquid plastic.

Stupid question alert, on top on my general stupidness today, is the meat safe to eat? Will there be plastic fumes, or anything toxic about it?

I can honestly say i wouldn't risk eating it

I once cooked turkey giblets in their bag inside a turkey. We are all still alive.

Is the plastic on the meat?

DH wants to eat it, I'm really not sure. Not really hungry now. Waaah.

No I wouldn't risk it.

Basically the knife was in a pool of melted plastic and the whole tray was sizzling in the meat oil. Plus I'm worried about the whole time it was cooking, what the plastic fumes would do? I don't know. I hate wasting food. It was such a bargain too. £2.50 for a huge leg of pork (with crackling)...

Following to see if anybody knows for certain, but I wouldn't eat it.

I think the general consensus is a no. Thanks everyone for replying and helping me make a decision

I would eat it IF the plastic was just molten rather than burning/smoking as it won't have released much in the way of toxic fumes and any that were you have now vented. Perhaps avoid any meat actually in contact with the plastic.

The sort of chemicals released are more toxic from repeated exposure than a one off.

I might not feed it to small kids I guess just to be cautious but me and DH fine if it tasted ok.

I’d eat it.

I'd eat it if it tasted ok, but not anything that'd actually been in contact with melted plastic.