What is safe to cook in?
I know aluminum is not safe. Today I heard stainless steel isn't safe either.. so what's left? Glass.. Is glass safe to cook in? Both metals release toxins into the food. Will glass?
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Permalink Reply by Baseball Mom on -
I'm not sure either, I have heard the same on the aluminum and the stainless steel? I'm not sure about the cast iron, but am interested to see all the responses. I still use some non-stick pans, stainless steel, and cast iron but am not sure what to purchase?? or for that matter where to purchase everywhere I go all I see is aluminum or stainless steel, glass only for baking, and what about all the copper?
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Permalink Reply by Lori Jeanne on -
I am also looking into buying new pots and pans. I need to know the right kind to buy. HELP.
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Permalink Reply by Jess on -
I would imagine any metal - even cast iron gives off stuff into the food. I have seen glass pots, but they were pretty expensive.. but I would guess well worth it. I haven't heard anything bad about glassware yet.. key word.. YET.. Pretty soon we won't have anything to cook in! HAHA
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Permalink Reply by Kevin on -
I wonder what copper's reputation is? Also I remember being told cast iron (real cast iron) is safe and actually adds iron to food. How desirable this is to a male I don't know.
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Permalink Reply by Becky on -
I got rid of all aluminum and non-stick, they are definately the worst. I use glass and a very heavy stainless. mercola.com has a lot of opinions on cookware if you search his site. I think stainless is the least of the evils when it comes to metal.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin on
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Hello all -
It's interesting how conflicting info can be. Don't even get going about plastic right? A few years back I asked Gary Null what the best vessel was for boiling water, and he told me stainless was fine as long as it's good quality. Unfortunately there is a big diff between German stainless and Chinese. Just in case anyone is looking for a hot stock tip, buy Chinese lead; it's in everything!! I cringe every time my girlfriend fries her eggs in her non-stick pan. I like my VisionWare, but it's kind of hard to cook in because it gets so hot
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Permalink Reply by Baseball Mom on
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Is VisionWare glass?
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Permalink Reply by Kevin on
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I honestly don't know exactly what it is. It's not metal. i just remember the add from way back where they melted an aluminum(?) pot in a VisionWare pan. Only a guess, but this stuff can withstand that kind of heat, so does that mean that if you're making oatmeal that the heat involved isn't near enough to make the material kick off into your food?
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Permalink Reply by Baseball Mom on
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I have noooo idea~~~~
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Permalink Reply by Dot Warner on -
Yikes! That's scary! The Chinese lead being in everything, I mean...
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Permalink Reply by Dot Warner on
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Okay, here's the best cookware out there... Saladmaster VersaTec T304-316L. It's totally non-reactive. They will come to your house and cook dinner for you, and do a "pot test". You can taste the metals coming from the other pans! But you cannot taste the metals from the Saladmaster pan! It's truly amazing. I bought a set a year and a half ago and I love it! I don't sell it, in case you're wondering... =) Here's the saladmaster website: http://www.saladmaster.com It's a bit pricey, but totally worth it, in my opinion. Plus they give you free pans if you host a dinner and things like that, so half of the cookware that I have was free.
Aluminum - definitely bad - implicated in alzheimers disease...
Non-stick - really bad stuff - birth defects, breathing problems. It kills birds. it is supposed to be phased out by the year 2015. Why don't they phase it out NOW?
Copper - bad - it leeches too much copper into your food. Copper is good in small quantities, but there is too much when you cook with it. It kills one of the B vitamins on contact. I forget what else it does - stomach pains maybe?
Stainless steel - if it's pure stainless steel - like for baking or something, it's probably okay. But if it's for stovetop use, it always has either copper on the bottom of it, or aluminum because stainless steel is a poor conductor of heat, so they need the copper/ aluminum to conduct heat. Well, stainless steel is also porous, so the copper or aluminum will still leech into your food. I was really sad when I found this out, because that's what I had been using before buying Saladmaster. I thought I was doing good - avoiding aluminum - but I wasn't!
Glass - I have heard that if it's for high heat use, then they have to run metals through it to make it so it won't break. I don't know if the metals will leech into your food or not. But I have heard not to store paint or gasoline type stuff near glass containers because the fumes will leak through the glass into the food or whatever is in the glass container.
Cast iron - not sure, but it might not be good to have that kind of iron in your body. especially men. Iron does more harm to them than women. But I would prefer to use this than the teflon non-stick pans.
So, I use my Saladmaster surgical stainless steel waterless cookware, and I also use a couple of Pampered Chef stoneware pans for baking that they said were lead free. Sometimes I store leftovers in a pyrex glass dish and I reheat it in a toaster oven at work.
Oh, I have also heard of "Soapstone" pans that are cut out of soapstone! Totally natural! So you might look into that. Of course, you never know what is in the mountain that they cut it out of. It could have lead or something like that in it too...
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