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Interesting theory from the doctor. I just bought a cheap stainless tea kettle, and now I'm thinking I might be drinking nickel in the tea.
From your link:
I have stainless steel cooking pots, skillets, etc. but I don't care for cheap kettles - I use a glass one (purchased on amazon) - I had previously had others but the interiors got "yucky/came off" - NOT going to drink that hot water - it looks kind of like those you see in diners, etc. for coffee but it's a stovetop one, been using it for years and actually have a backup new one in case I should (knock on wood) break it.
First thing you see when you click the link is "Nonstick Cookware". It's pretty much common knowledge that nonstick teflon pans will leach into your foods when not used properly. Avoid high heat and utensils that can scratch the surface. Stainless steel is perfectly safe. Your doctor is full of baloney or he meant something else other than SS. Quality stainless steel is just that and should contain no nickle. The cheap stuff is another story.
Not true. According to my allergist and looking online, stainless steel can contain up to 25% nickel. In nickel allergies, every molecule counts.
So, use well-seasoned cast iron pots, skillets, and tea pots. Yes, they can leach iron into your foods (especially acidic foods), so avoid taking iron supplements.
I am 87,married 65 years,receieved,
wedding gift of revere stainless steel pots,still like new.
My brother was gift giver,had same set and passed at 94!!
I also have stainless steel cookware that is why she had me worried . I hate it stainless steel it cooks worse than crap . I don't care how much some type of cooking fat be it butter , oil what have you it sticks worse than glue I kid you not . I love ceramic I have a ceramic tea pot which I love and it stay hot too . But that is a whole other story .
Nothing cooks better than cast iron. It is the best.
you probably are and I would go get a ceramic coated one . I know they cost more but no nickel .
I bought my daughter a ceramic coated set. I like them so much, I think I will get a set for myself. The pans I use are Teflon coated and the Teflon definitely comes off so I'm sure we end up eating it.
I bought my daughter a ceramic coated set. I like them so much, I think I will get a set for myself. The pans I use are Teflon coated and the Teflon definitely comes off so I'm sure we end up eating it.
The Teflon coating on my pan has been coming off for years. It's a T-Fal, my mother gave it to me, it's probably 30 years old. Just haven't gotten around to getting a new frying pan.
Besides cast iron, what is safe to use for pots and pans?
The Canadian one basically says there is no problem and that is a government site. The second one is all over the place and continually suggests using bamboo but decries the use of plastics - the problem is that bamboo products are molded and stabilized with...yep, plastics. The third link is to a company that sells stainless steel pots and pans and is using scare tactics to get you to throw yours away and buy new, "better" ones from them.
I suppose there could be a very small segment of the population who will have a negative reaction to something in the stainless steel but, as the Canadian source stated stainless is pretty well safe for all.
I would suggest that the doctor, unless a quack or addressing a specific need of a single patient, was probably talking about aluminum rather than stainless steel, could your neighbor have been confused?
And no, normal stainless steel has no coating but some may have a very easily seen Teflon or similar lining.
i know for a fact you cant use cast iron on a glass top stove which all stoves are going that way now . It scratches the surface of the glass top . I know when I bought my glass top stove it stated no cast iron .
It is so confusing what you can and cannot use .
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- it looks kind of like those you see in diners, etc. for coffee but it's a stovetop one, been using it for years and actually have a backup new one in case I should (knock on wood) break it.
