I had the experience of cooking up a large batch of fresh tomato sauce in a large aluminum pot then storing it in the fridge in same. Within four days it had eaten through the pot. Damn, those were home grown tomatoes. Now I just use cast iron and steel pots. "just two things that money can't buy, true love and home grown tomatoes!" > > > > My parents always warned against preparing acid foods in aluminum > containers. Don't know. Will discolor. But, my mother cooked in > heavy aluminum pots, including stews, soups, and sauces containing > tomatoes. > > Everything I cook in my Vanagon camper I cook in aluminum, except > for those things prepared in iron skillets. I do cook biscuits > outdoors in a dutch oven. Just returned from a trip to my favorite > Ozark creek, where I caught smallmouth bass and golden redhorse > suckers. Cooked both, and all accompanying dishes in aluminum. > > DMc > > ---- Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM> wrote: > |
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