Do fried food hawkers really use molten plastic waste in the frying oil to make the food crispier longer?

Question

Do fried food hawkers really use molten plastic waste in the frying oil to make the food crispier longer?

Answer 1

This was an issue I read about in the newspapers, about the plastic being fried with the food to make it crispier. There is no logical science behind it, and I don't think it works. Even if it did work, I wouldn't venture to think it's safe, because of the chemicals involved with plastic and heat, and the fact that your food is involved with this interaction too.....

Stick with good old frying oil, sans plastic. But yes, certain people DO use plastic in their frying oil, not all of them. Weird what people will do.