Like Charcoal, Man Adds Heated Brick In Food; Internet Says, “Not Creative Cooking, It’s A Health Risk”

We all have seen many weird food combinations, like adding sauce to Maggie, ice cream with fries and even charcoal in the food for taste. But have you heard someone adding a red construction brick to the food? Sounds weird, right? This viral video shows a chef adding a brick to the food to create a smoky flavour. Read on to know more.

Chef Uses Brick In Food To Create Smoky Flavour

A chef took to his social media account to share a cooking hack with his viewers. In the video, he can be seen heating a red construction brick before pouring hot tadka and oil onto it. After which, he placed it inside the food to create a smoky flavour. While some viewers compared the method to the traditional smoking techniques used in Indian cooking, others pointed out that the red bricks are not designed for cooking. Reposted by another X user, Chirag Barjatya, who captioned the video and wrote, “Some chef on Instagram posted a reel where he is heating the brick, yes, those red bricks used in construction. And then putting a tadka on it and then putting it in the food for flavour.” He further requested his audience not to try this at home, as it is injurious to health. “Please don’t do this ever. Bricks are high in heavy metals like arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, nickel, copper, zinc, barium, antimony, selenium, molybdenum, silver, and beryllium. They might leach in your food,” the post read.

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As soon as the video was reposted, some compared it to the traditional dhungar method, others highlighted the difference and called out the brick as unsafe. One user wrote, “People are literally doing unnecessary things to get viral on Instagram. There are many ways of tadka, but he chose Brick.”

Another user wrote, “That’s not creative cooking; it’s a health risk. Heating construction bricks and dipping them into food can release toxic metals like lead, arsenic, and cadmium. This isn’t a flavour hack; it’s a contamination problem.”

Bricks are typically made from clay and other raw materials that can carry impurities. They may contain metals such as lead, cadmium, chromium and others, which are unhealthy and injurious to consume.

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