Re: Help with what I believe is a hardening issue

From: Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>
Subject: RE: Help with what I believe is a hardening issue
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 02:17:51 -0500 (EST)

> I wonder what the folks who gave their temperature controlled fry pans to
> the thrift shop are using instead? Once upon a time in the long long ago
> (before they invented cholesterol), I paid a sum of money for one of those
> things, aka fondu pot.The fondu was sublime, tho now of course you
> wouldn't dare serve it -- folks would think you were trying to poison
> them. Ah -- maybe that's why they all landed in the thrift shop?

If you are referring to aluminum being a suspected cause of
Alzheimer's disease or whatever, that's BS. I read somewhere (probably
McGee's On Food and Science) that that story was introduced by
stainless steel industry to discourage aluminum cookwares. If you go
to any restaurant supply store, you'll see a lot of large bare
aluminum cookware with no anodizing or teflon. If you look at the
labels of baking powders, antiacid tablets, etc., they often contain
aluminum compounds. Plus, remember white alum is used for food.

--
Ryuji Suzuki
"People seldom do what they believe in.  They do what is convenient,
then repent." (Bob Dylan, Brownsville Girl, 1986)