Is it safe to cook food in aluminium pots ?
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I was trying to convince my buddy to buy steel over aluminium because I’ve read about health issues with aluminium especially when cooking acidic foods
For what it worth i believe Alzheimers is direct result of Statin drugs.
Your brain needs cholesterol and Statin drugs robs your brain of cholesterol.
I am old enough to remember there was not many cases of dementia and mo Alzheimers.
Alzheimers came along many years after the beginning of Statin drugs
And the starving of our brains for decades via the low fat diets being pushed, vaccines have/had loads of neuro toxins. Seed oils, sugar, environmental exposures to who knows what. . . . .I think just feeding our brains cholesterol and good fat alone would help so much.
Exactly.
You've got two schools of thought right now. Those the believe aluminum is responsible for Alzheimers and other neuralogical disorders.
And you have those that including most of the rest of the world outside the US that are saying Alzheimers is caused by diets to high in carbs, and sugars. They are starting to describe Alzheimers as type III diabetes.
To be safe I'd go with cast iron or stainless steel cookware, and stay away from reheating or eating from plastics too.
I only cook in 18/10 Stainless Steel, Cast Iron, Le Cruset, Pyrex or Corning Ware
That is a great practice for your health. I wish I could completely convince my wife to give up her convenience for better health. She is coming around, but it has been a long trip.
Praying for her awareness to speed up..🙏
Maybe, maybe not, aluminium dissolves into both cold and hot when the food, or drink, in a vessel made of it, is acidic. So you certainly get more aluminium into your body if you use pots made of it. But there doesn't seem to be any officially admitted studies that would prove that kind of amounts are dangerous to your health. Not if you are a healthy adult anyway. Seems it can cause something like dementia, but when eaten that is claimed to mostly become a concern only if your kidneys don't work well.
But because of those studies aluminium seems to be used in lots of things from where it may end up in our stomach at least in very small amounts, like cans, food packaging in general like the lids for dairy products like yogurts, tin foil is actually mostly aluminium foil these days, aluminium blisters for packaging medicines and so on. So we get a lot of exposure anyway.
And one thing you find when it comes to the potential toxicity in the amounts humans now regularly are exposed to is the good old "more research needed".
Because of all the other exposure if you want to play it safe avoid that kind of pots, but it is not certain they are a problem.
I need to get to work so I didn't have time to read this all through, but one long article:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2782734/
Stay away from it. Use cast iron, stainless steel, or glass.
Aluminum=bad including baking sheet pans, Aluminum foil, those catering Aluminum trays, canned soda (i know it's coated in a chemical that prevents leeching yeah right lol.
Nonstick= bad
Stainless steel and/or cast iron. If you can learn to cook an egg on stainless steel without it sticking= pro lol
A well-seasoned cast iron skillet cooks eggs wonderfully. Cast iron was the go to cookware of our ancestors who crossed the prairies in covered wagons. Cast iron was what the cowboys used on the range. Good old cast iron. The only problem with a complete set (as I should know) is that the older you get, the heavier they become to cook with. So I got rid of my dutch oven, several pots with the cast iron lids and a couple of the casseroles. I kept 2 of the skillets and one casserole.
Isn't that the truth! I have a stovetop grill that covers two burners that is getting extremely hard to wield, but I refuse to give it up, meat tastes and looks (grill marks like a restaurant), sooooo good seared and cooked on it!
I also found some lighter glass and stainless lids from other pots and pans that fit a few of my cast iron pieces.
Yes, and thrift stores are great places to find glass lids. Also, cast iron is what kept the early pioneers and cowboys from being iron deficient; or so I've been told. I was told that some of the iron would leech into the food by scraping the pan and so they would have iron in their diet. Don't know for sure.
I've heard that about iron in the food, and I believe it. If aluminum can leech, then it stands to reason that other metals would, as well.
Well, I guess I'll never be iron deficient.
#metoo
One less thing to worry about! 😄
Amen.
No. I got rid of ALL of mine years ago. Also, get rid of ANY and ALL of the black plastic utensils. They have toxic forever chemicals.
This too. Wood or stainless steel.
no - and get rid of aluminum forks, spoons, knives too.
it amazes me all the seniors I see cooking with aluminum foil in the oven and then their relatives wondering why they get Alzheimers.
what is the preferred method for oven use.
I havent read about the harms of cooking with foil yet.
Love to place meats in foil and cook at low temps for long hours.
glass or ceramic pans and baking dishes - many of them come with glass/ceramic covers to get the same effect as wrapping in foil.
I use glass or cast iron and heavy butcher paper to wrap. Also use the paper to "crutch" in the smoker..
Me too, if I am doing a slow bbq, I wrap with butchers, twice, then foil.
Get a enamel roaster with a lid, heavy cast iron enamelled.
Then if Aluminum is a forever toxic metal we shouldn't be cooking in, why do we purchase meats wrapped in plastic?
I got rid of all aluminum cookware decades ago. Only rarely use aluminum foil.
You wouldn't drink water from lead pipes? You won't have asbestos insulation in your home? Then don't have aluminum cookware.
Many (underarm) deodorants & anti-perspirants use aluminum. Soaks right into the skin.
Same for non-stick. I don't know about the ceramic over ? ones like hexclad, etc. I use carbon steel, ceramic, stainless, and cast iron depending on what I'm cooking.
I doubt it. Some level of experience here. I build with aluminum. I've been doing so for the last 25 years. I have two friends in the business who have been going for at least as long as I have. All three of us have fairly severe arthritis. Particularly in our hands. Two of us have Dupuytren's Contracture, otherwise known as Vikings disease. I'm not sure on the odds of the DC, but I reckon they are pretty small that 60% of the long-termers who I know would suffer. Unless, of course, the aluminum plays a roll. Tell your friend to do what he wants. I would recommend against it.
IMHO, the real danger is when Aluminium meets Fluoride within the body, there is a chemical reaction which results in calcification of organs and blood vessels.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/aluminium-and-fluoride-in-drinking-water-in-relation-to-later-dementia-risk/14AF4F22AC68C9D6F34F9EC91BE37B6D
Hopefully Whiteclaw starts bottling their seltzers soon.. I also use foil somewhat frequently. I use aluminum free old spice so I think it balances out.