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I don't know very many people who actually COOK who like it. Look at chef's own kitchens in magazines. They rarely have it. It's a "for-show" product.
The house I own now has granite countertops. I don't know the color name, but it's a mottled dark gray with burgundy flecks, and it came with the house. I think it looks just fine, and it's durable. I cook all the time, and what's on my countertops has absolutely no effect on the quality or quantity of my cooking. Furthermore, my appliances are nothing special. In fact, I suspect the seller swapped out a nicer stove for a cheap glass-top model when he put the house on the market. I still use it. This idea that "real" cooks must have certain kinds of equipment, or (more ridiculously) a certain type of countertop is nonsense. I need a flat surface. What it's made from is irrelevant.
The scare tactics are good because the average Joe knows little or next to nothing about the general broad field called Health Physics which is the science of how all types of radiation affects living organisms. In the big picture it is primarily a matter of degree and everything is relative. In fact just about all materials in the World are radioactive to some degree, including your own human body. Varying organs of the body collect and store particular elements, some of which can be quite radioactive, it all works as long as certain levels are not exceeded. Probably more risk from a type of chemical poisoning in many cases. Again it is all relative. Vitually all the food you consume is radioactive to some level. Example there was a guy in Canada that got a bad case of Cobalt-60, your blood collects the element in solution. Turns out that was traced to drinking like gallons of beer a day over years and years. Liver probably gave out from the alcohol long before the cobalt got him. It is all about something known as a Body Burden. .
Hardly mentioned much anymore, but all of us Baby Boomers who were drinking cow's milk in the 50s and early 60s consumed considerable amounts of Strontium 90--the fallout from the huge amount of above-ground nuclear weapons testing during that time (hundreds of detonations, mostly in Nevada). That Strontium-90 resides permanently in our bones.
Hardly mentioned much anymore, but all of us Baby Boomers who were drinking cow's milk in the 50s and early 60s consumed considerable amounts of Strontium 90--the fallout from the huge amount of above-ground nuclear weapons testing during that time (hundreds of detonations, mostly in Nevada). That Strontium-90 resides permanently in our bones.
Yep. It's an untold secret among radiologists that they can save electricity doing bone X-rays of Boomers by simply not turning on the machine. They just make a noise with their mouths.
Actually it comes down to your personal choice. Whatever that is go for it. I myself hate laminate, I have had it plenty in the past, never again, my choice.
NEWSFLASH: Living carries with it the certainty of death.
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