Cooking in aluminum

Found this article....

"According to an account in Cook’s Illustrated (January 2012), lab tests run on tomato sauce cooked in aluminum for two hours, then stored in the same pot overnight, showed that the sauce contained only .0024 milligrams per cup. In contrast, a single antacid tablet may contain more than 200 milligrams. Just contemplating that fact is enough to give me indigestion."

http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/05/15/aluminum-pans-wont-give-you-alzheimers
 
Mannlicher said:
you can't be serious!
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Yes. Yes he can. I generally don't use aluminum. That said, I do have an old U.S. military cast aluminum folding handle skillet that I use camping. Lighter than steel and little taste added to foods. But I use it to fry or bake mostly, so no acidic foods. I grew up using anodized aluminum tumblers to drink Koolaid and they did give it a taste. I'm not so worried about contaminating food though. Or using BPA plastic bottles for that matter.
 
GSI Outdoors Pinnacle 10" Aluminum Pan - Worked just fine.

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Phoynix said:
Aluminum is one of the most common elements on the planet, while nothing has been found that actually uses it for biological processes all known life has extremely high resistances to toxicity and efficient mechanisms for expelling it from both single cells and larger bodies.
Just eating fruit and veg is a cause of daily exposure.

On the other hand Tomato soup cooked in a stainless pot and left over night has levels of chromium and nickel above safe daily intake levels.
I personally prefer something life has been exposed to on a daily basis since its inception on earth and which we have biological processes to deal with, compared to things like Chromium which outside of rare incidents and areas is uncommon for us to be exposed too until we started mining and refining the stuff.

Officially Aluminum causing Alzheimer’s is a myth, with all studies done to prove a link failing to show any.
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This. Aluminum is 8% of the earth's crust, we get it everywhere. And ceramics and earthenware are made from clay, which is full of aluminum. We use aluminum, cast iron, and stainless steel in my kitchen, with the decision of which to use based on the specific application and the available cookware. That being said, I am especially fond of how cast iron works.
 
lambertiana said:
This. Aluminum is 8% of the earth's crust, we get it everywhere. And ceramics and earthenware are made from clay, which is full of aluminum. We use aluminum, cast iron, and stainless steel in my kitchen, with the decision of which to use based on the specific application and the available cookware. That being said, I am especially fond of how cast iron works.
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Yup. You get aluminum from the soil just by eating vegetables.
 
I'd favor stainless, but I do cook from aluminum occasionally. You probably get more aluminum from one spray of deodorant than you get from dozen cookouts though.
 
Aluminum squirrel ? That's quite a mutation !
There are far too many who want their names in the headlines . Let's stick to real science ! Association does not necessarily prove causation !
 
According to Prof. McFee? a medical research scientist and professor at C.U.N.Y in NYC, the brain tissue samples were kept in aluminum trays and through off the Alzheimer's study. When re-done in non-aluminum equipment, there was no relationship. He said "people tend to run with mistakes and walk with retractions" the rest had to do with funding. Can't remember the rest but that was the gist of it. Aluminum is GTG according to one professor I personally encountered. Lawsuits have a wealth of science people never hear about. Lexus nexus can be helpful.
 
Codger_64 said:
Yes. Yes he can. I generally don't use aluminum. That said, I do have an old U.S. military cast aluminum folding handle skillet that I use camping. Lighter than steel and little taste added to foods. But I use it to fry or bake mostly, so no acidic foods. I grew up using anodized aluminum tumblers to drink Koolaid and they did give it a taste. I'm not so worried about contaminating food though. Or using BPA plastic bottles for that matter.
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proving once again, that often we vastly over think things.
 
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