Aluminum, Teflon, Non-Stick, etc, Pots/Pans/Cookie Sheets

[Guest guest]

Just a note from what I've studied.

If your food touches aluminum, the aluminum leaches into it -

ESPECIALLY if it is a high-acid food like tomato sauce or something.

(Same goes with aluminum foil touching the food that it is covering

while baking) You may notice that when you cook in aluminum, the color

of the food changes. I've had many stuffed peppers (covered in sauce)

turn a nasty gray color..........from the aluminum. Yeeks.

 

Teflon or non-stick pans are the ones that cause trouble when they are

scratched. However, even when they are not scratched, they still

produce harmful gases when they are heated.

I've tossed all mine and just use stainless steel stuff and glass

baking dishes.

I've used stainless steel cookie sheets (more expensive but worth

every cent!) and they ROCK! Things don't stick to them and when you

wash them, you don't have to scour anything off. As far as frying pans

and pots, I've heard about enamel coated ones work well, but I haven't

done any research into them.

Every gluten-free pancake I've made so far has flopped - which I think

is due to not having non-stick pans. Maybe not, but that is my

suspicion. So..........just some food for thought!

[Guest guest]

I use my Pampered Chef oil spritzer for pancakes in my cast iron skillet

to prevent the sticking...kind of a pain to spray them each time but it

works.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I've had a lot of luck making pancakes on a cast-iron griddle - the one I have

is made by the Lodge company. I grease the griddle with some oil and the

pancakes come out fine. I have to re-grease the griddle with every few pancakes.

 

Regards, Ellen http://iamglutenfree.blogspot.com/ http://www.peterandellen.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

there was a recent post about aluminum from foil leaching into food. i

wanted to ask about this for awhile (i'm a lurker)....i don't use

aluminum pans but i do cook with foil, mostly to heat things in the

toaster oven since i also don't use a microwave. can anyone give me

more info on heating food in aluminum foil and aluminum leaching into

the food? thanks, bonnie

[Guest guest]

Personally, I hate using aluminium foil because it seems so wasteful of

resources. Instead of using foil to cover dishes in the oven, I use

either a baking sheet or - even better - a silicon tray liner, which

works really well because it drapes down over the contours of the food

being cooked, keeping heat and steam in - it works really well!

Best wishes

alice

 

On 24 Sep 2008, at 08:28, flashnsaber wrote:

 

>

> there was a recent post about aluminum from foil leaching into food. i

> wanted to ask about this for awhile (i'm a lurker)....i don't use

> aluminum pans but i do cook with foil, mostly to heat things in the

> toaster oven since i also don't use a microwave. can anyone give me

> more info on heating food in aluminum foil and aluminum leaching into

> the food? thanks, bonnie