Wood is also known for being flammable, but wooden cooking tools are very common. I think anyone who cooks a lot has an intuitive understanding that just touching something hot is not enough to make anything in a kitchen catch on fire, and that home kitchen fires are relatively rare even with a gas stove involved. So it is surprising to learn that there are flame retardants in these tools because they clearly aren't necessary.
The flame retardants were added to the plastic cases of electronics, which at the end of their lives got recycled into kitchen utensils.
That is why white plastic utensils are not being called out: although white utensils are common, white electronics cases are rare, so the white utensils do not have high levels of retardants.
I understand, I'm just explaining why the average person wouldn't expect to find flame retardants in kitchen tools. It is not a logical assumption like the other comment claimed.
