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- From: irw@bharh58.bnr.co.uk (Ian Woollard)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Aluminum cookware: Recipe for disaster?
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 10:29:43 GMT
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- In article <JONATHAN.92Nov18164042@speedy.cs.pitt.edu> jonathan@cs.pitt.edu (Jonathan Eunice) writes:
- >Aluminum is also one of the most common elements on the earth. It
- >appears in many soils and clays, for example, not to mention foods.
- >So even if one were to avoid Al cookware and pipes, there would be
- >plenty of opportunity to bring it into your body.
-
- The current advice is: don't throw away your aluminium pans. If you
- treat them reasonably carefully (perhaps like non-stick pans) you'll
- do fine. The aluminium within hours forms aluminium oxide on any
- damaged surface, and little aluminium(/oxide) gets carried into the
- food after that. The one thing that is definitely *not* considered
- wise is to cook acidic food like stewed fruit in aluminium pans. The
- acid attacks the metal and dissolves the surface and carries it into
- the food.
-
- The reason not to panic about your aluminium pans is that there are
- large sources of aluminium in many peoples normal diet, as above. I
- believe that tea has quite a good dose in it, more than you might get
- from your pans.
-