How to Use Plantain: If fresh plantain grows in your yard, you can make sure it has not been sprayed by pesticides or pets and use in teas or the young leaves in salads. For stings and bites, make a poultice of fresh plantain leaf and bentonite clay with water to form a paste.
Burnt food is considered carcinogenic, simply because the carbon molecules have the ability to disrupt our dna, it's able to break portions of DNA and insert itself within... this leads to our dna reproducing it self 'wrongfully' with a different structure.. potentially causing cancer.
Creosote is a significant risk in all wood-burning appliances (such as wood stoves) and can also form in other heaters. Watch out: creosote will burn at a very high temperature - it is combustible. That's why creosote deposits risk a dangerous chimney fire. Creosote, in the form of coal tar, is chemically similar to wood-tar (but not identical) but is formed in bituminous coal or lignite coal-burning appliances.