Guest guest Posted February 9, 2008 Report Share Posted February 9, 2008 Steph, Is it your birthday or just an early Valentine's present? Don't worry about eating food cooked in aluminum as a one-time thing. Just take your great grandma's pan and paint it to hang it up in your kitchen as a decoration to prevent anyone being tempted to do this again. Yes, I would agree that soaking would be best in glass. If that won't work for some reason, take heart in the fact that you can detoxify from aluminum with malic acid which is found in apples. You know the old " apple a day " ... Enjoy your cake. Kathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2008 Report Share Posted February 9, 2008 Too bad aluminum is slowly toxic because it's SO good to cook in. My own hard-to-ditch pieces are my two stove-top WAFFLE IRONS from St. Louis Park's own NORDICWARE factory. I can make waffles fit for royalty on them but there's that nagging problem of the aluminum. At least they aren't teflon coated! I don't think I've ever seen a bundt pan that wasn't aluminum either. We still have one of those too. One by one, we are replacing our toxic cookware with the good stuff. My own personal aluminum toxicity came to light when my electric water-boiler for making tea died. I tore into it only to find the internal tank is, yep, aluminum. Now I'm looking at our Culligan-style spring water dispenser with the hot and cold taps here at work, dreading to think about the internal hot water tank (sometimes water sits in there for a weekend or overnight before we drink it. Yipes. I don't know about you, but I'm eating my FRESH CILANTRO! This is the most powerful chelator of heavy metals that you can eat. Try to get a handful every day. Will Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2008 Report Share Posted February 9, 2008 Thanks for the advice about my aluminum cake pan. I'm going to throw out my hot water pot too. It's totally aluminum! The cake is going to be my valentine present. He managed to get it out of the pan and into a bowl for the soaking. I had to laugh at my adorable husband who spent one and a half hours baking the cake last night and doing nothing else, meaning I came downstairs to a sink full of crusty dishes this morning. I can't complain because he was trying to make a present for me, but you just have to wonder what was he thinking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2008 Report Share Posted February 9, 2008 Will Winter wrote > I don't think I've ever seen a bundt pan that wasn't > aluminum either. We still have one of those too. One by one, we are replacing our toxic cookware with the good stuff. > Pampered Chef sells a bundt cake pan made of stoneware. Its why I recently became a consultant, I love their stoneware and couldn't otherwise afford it. Bundt cakes are great because its so simple to make them look fancy -katrina -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------\ ---------------------------------- Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. Buddha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 10, 2008 Report Share Posted February 10, 2008 I actually found a bundt cake pan made out of POTTERY at a garage sale! It has a whole in it so that you can hang it up a decoration. That made me think that maybe it was not made to actually be used. So I found the company stamp/imprint on it, called the company that made it and found out that the glaze they use in ALL of their pottery is foodsafe! I haven't tried it out yet though.... Therese Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 10, 2008 Report Share Posted February 10, 2008 Will Winter wrote > I don't think I've ever seen a bundt pan that wasn't > aluminum either. We still have one of those too. One by one, we are replacing our toxic cookware with the good stuff. The Vermont Country Store Catalog sells a lovely glass bundt pan, which I was ogling while visiting my mom, to which she replied, " glass bundt pan? You want a glass bundt pan? I have one downstairs. Please take it! " . So we went downstairs and lo and behold, her mother's glass bundt pan. I was happy to spare the cost, as the new one is $35 (http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/shopping/ product/detailmain.jsp? itemID=33362 & itemType=PRODUCT & RS=1 & keyword=bundt or http:// tinyurl.com/38h9pd ) but, my grandma's is not nearly as pretty as the one in the catalog! Still: it's my grandma's. Jen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 10, 2008 Report Share Posted February 10, 2008 Some time ago I saw a cast iron waffle iron in a Lehaman's catalog. It sounds very intriguing and someday I'd like to get one. Lynn > > Too bad aluminum is slowly toxic because it's SO good to cook in. My own hard-to-ditch > pieces are my two stove-top WAFFLE IRONS from St. Louis Park's own NORDICWARE factory. I > can make waffles fit for royalty on them but there's that nagging problem of the aluminum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 10, 2008 Report Share Posted February 10, 2008 I have an old cast iron waffle iron that I got at an estate sale and love that!!!! I have an electric one but it does not cook them as nice and it dries them out too much. The cast iron seems to keep them more moist. Kimi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ www.Jremedies.com Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you: 1. Jesus Christ 2.. The American G. I. One died for your soul, the other for your freedom. --- http://USFamily.Net/dialup.html - $8.25/mo! -- http://www.usfamily.net/dsl.html - $19.99/mo! --- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 Lynn, I have one of the cast iron waffle irons from Lehmans. It is ok but not great. It came covered with a thin layer of wax over it to protect it from rust. I don't even know if I got all of that off properly. Plus, it's pretty small. Therese Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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