: ALuminum Pots & Pans

[Guest guest]

>>>> my problem is my toaster oven and its pans are aluminum and I can't

seem to find toaster oven stuff that isn't aluminum so I was wondering

if I bought that parchment paper (I think that what its called ) and

covered my pans before I put the food on it, does the paper stop the

aluminum from being absorbed into the food>>>>>

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Sounds like you've got a good idea using the parchment, I'd love to help

answer your question but it is over my head.

I did find out about cookware but must have deleted the email, so I will

give my recall for what that is worth. Evidently there are two grades of

aluminum/metal pots and pans: number 300 & number 400. I seem to recall

that a magnet will stick to the number 400 which means it has a greater %

of iron ie possibly a better choice of cookware unless you have too much

iron. The magnet will not stick to the number 300 grade metal so it has

much more aluminum in it. That's all by info.

But as for your question, I haven't even looked inside my

toaster.......so I'll be watching the emails closely also,

Sharon in Virginia

[Guest guest]

Some years back we did some experiments on aluminium pots and pans and on

aluminium foil to see how much would be taken up in the water.

We boiled water in them for hours and........virtually nothing.

We decided that water was not an appropriate substance as no-one (in the

UK at least) boils up huge quantities of water. (We use electric kettles

here.) So - we boiled up rhubarb for hours on end in these same saucepans

and added aluminium foil. Rhubarb is very high in acids especially

oxalic acid and so should have been very effective. The saucepans were

gleaming afterwards but, even then, we got very little dissolution of

aluminium.

Perhaps it was just our water but I have to say that we found no evidence

that the aluminium would dissolve from the pans into the water.

Milk was virtually devoid of the stuff. Tea is packed with it. It is

almost as if the tea plant is concentrating aluminium.

Our conclusion was that Lead (from the pipes) finished off the Roman

Empire. Aluminium (from the tea) did the same for the British.

Shattock

[Guest guest]

> Are you referring to all tea? Where does the aluminum come from?

>

Soil contains ample aluminium. We assumed that the tea plants selectively

took it up from the soil and retained it. We also assumed that this was a

feature of the species Camelia sinensis (tea) but we did not have any proof.

Our (never tested) hypothesis was that most of us can dump aluminium and

other metals by making use of sulphation systems (straight sulphation or

through metallothionenes) but some folks can't manage that so these

metals (such as mercury and aluminium perhaps) can be especially toxic to

these groups. (What do we know about sulphation etc in people with autism?)

There is an American plant called " loco-weed " (and I forget the botanical

name) which selectively concentrates the element selenium from the soil.

Horses would eat this stuff in the desert where there is little choice

and go " loco " before joining that great round-up in the sky.

I guess this is better than being tinned and sold as Spam though.

S.