What about the old Wagner-Ware cast iron frying pans. They were supposed to be beneficial also, but are very hard to find now. Sally
"Jonathan B. Britten" <[email protected]> wrote: My two cents worth: in Japan the iron Nanbu testsu kettles are revered for their beneficial health effects. These may have been more pronounced in previous decades and centuries when anemia was more likely. I have a nutritionist friend (phD), who believes that in fact the ferrous minerals from these teapots is bio-available and beneficial. I suppose, though, that only a blood test would tell for sure. JBB On Monday, Nov 1, 2004, at 22:03 Asia/Tokyo, Ode Coyote wrote: > The rainbow effect is due to heating. When drawing the temper on any > steel, the color of the rainbow can be used to determine the > temperature of > the draw starting with a straw or golden color and going to purple. > With a > uniform temperature , you get solid colors. Stove top heating isn't > uniform. The effect shows up better on stainless due to a better > contrast. > Artists in my neighborhood who make stainless steel sculptures use > that > effect to color their work. Solid colors are done in a big oven, > while non > solid colors are done with a torch and look like they were painted on. > The coloring does not affect the integrity of the steel though some > oxidation of the surface is likely. > Were it a high carbon heat treatable steel that had been heated to > critical > and quenched to harden it, the purple areas would be drawn softer than > the > golden areas. > > Iron is not generally a health problem. In most of it's forms, it's > not > very bioavailable. The well water around here is sometimes brown with > iron > and has caused no problems in all the hundreds of years of people > drinking > it ...except for staining the laundry and sinks etc and tasting nasty. > > Various compounds of chromium as found in chrome plating baths can be > very > poisonous but the chromium in stainless steel is locked up in the iron > really well and not likely to make those compounds. > Both nickle and chromium are highly resistant to making spontaneous > compounds which is why they are used to make stainless steel stainless > and > plated over steel to prevent corrosion. > > Ode > > At 09:04 AM 10/31/2004 -0700, you wrote: >> That was a concern for me with enamel pans too. They also get quite >> large chips, and I wondered if the edges and cracks of those chips >> would >> not be continually fracturing off tiny shards of glass. Plus at the >> point they are cracked or chipped I assume the metal underneath (what >> is >> it?) would be leaching. >> Le Creuset was mentioned, but all I have seen in that for years is >> teflon coated. Perhaps anodized aluminum is the way to go? >> Aluminum despite concerns in recent decades was at one time thought to >> be a "pass through" metal, anything leached into food was just >> excreted. >> Plus, as Ken said, aluminum is not avoidable as it is one of the most >> common metals on earth. >> I do have some SS pans with the "rainbow", so I would really like to >> know if it in fact does mean the metal is leaching more than it would >> otherwise------and since I am allergic to nickel, am wondering if I am >> getting enough to be a problem that might possibly be making all my >> other health issues worse. Trying to reconstruct when exactly I went >> to >> SS pans.......never thought I'd need to remember that, god what I'd >> give >> for a functioning memory! >> sol >> >> >> Tony Moody wrote: >> >>> I feel much happer using SS than enamel ware. The enamel >>> develops tiny cracks in which germs lurk i am sure and also those >>> tiny chips of glass have to go into the food. Right? >>> >>> Stainless steel in general does not lose surface unless abraded, so >>> be gentle with it. I would guess that more nickel/chrome comes off >>> the edge of knife and ends of fork tines than is 'cooked' off into >>> the >>> food in a stainless pot. >>> >>> Why not 'silver plate' the inside of your SS ware after cleaning it. >>> Any >>> methods out there? >>> >>> Tony >>> >>> On 29 Oct 2004 at 15:41, sol wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> So if I get this stuff and use it a couple months a year, do I still >>>> have to throw out my brand new set of SS pans? >>>> And here was me, thinking I was doing good by gradually getting rid >>>> of >>>> aluminum pans over the years......... >>>> sol >>>> >>>> twllLL wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> IP6 This stuff is suppose to chelate heavy metals from your body >>>>> & >>>>> lots of other stuff.Its made from rice bran extract. You don't >>>>> need to >>>>> take it all year long. >>>>> Take it for a couple of months twice a year. >>>>> Hulda Clark says SS gets into womens breast & causes >>>>> breast cancer too. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal >>>> Silver. >>>> >>>> Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org >>>> >>>> To post, address your message to: [email protected] >>>> Silver List archive: >>>> http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html >>>> >>>> Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] >>>> OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html >>>> >>>> List maintainer: Mike Devour >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
