Can medical gauze be used to steam food?

Gauze is safe to use as drawer cloth. It's just that the gap of gauze is relatively large, so it would be better to add a few more layers. Using gauze as drawer cloth is not as effective as special drawer cloth. Special drawer cloth belongs to flax, for example, when steaming steamed bread, it will not have this effect. If it is used as a sandwich for steamed rice, there is no problem.

If the rice cooker directly heats the rice with gauze, it is necessary to pay attention to soaking the gauze, because the water is relatively large. It is possible and very safe.

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Wound gauze (or non-stick gauze): cellulose pulp is added with acetic anhydride, esterified with a small amount of sulfuric acid and spun into cellulose diacetate fiber. It is white, soft, fluffy, non-toxic, tasteless and non-irritating.

The moisture regain (when the temperature is 20℃ and the relative humidity is 65%) is 6%~7%. It can be woven into gauze and bandage, which has the advantages of not sticking blood and purulent secretions, and can promote the early healing of wounds.

Non-woven gauze: the medical gauze blank is formed by spunlace consolidation of cotton net, which is bleached and disinfected for later use.

Composite non-woven gauze: cotton net and synthetic fiber net are laminated and compounded. The mesh diameter of synthetic fiber net is 0. 1~3mm, and corrugations are formed at the same time after hot rolling to increase its longitudinal elasticity. Medical gauze has a large quantity and a wide range. With the progress of textile technology, there are more and more new types of special gauze.

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