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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

I'm guessing he was trying to boil water in a aluminium pan and forgot about it? I'm also guessing said roommate must have left, because a burning non-stick coating would be rather noticeable.

I mean, I did something kinda like that as a kid, I forgot a aluminium bottomed steel pan once and managed to melt the base (thankfully with no non-stick coating fumes).

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Isn’t aluminum kinda bad too? Like it’s linked to dementia or something.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Really old research found aluminum in the plaques once, it was actually from contamination in the water they used to wash the brains for the staining agent.

There's no solid evidence either way.

IMO the biggest problems with aluminum is

  1. a low melting point :)

and

  1. It's reactive to high ph, so you have to be careful what you cook in it.
[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you mean low pH? Acids react with aluminum.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Both low and high ph wreck aluminum. It's honestly not a great cooking vessel

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yea but how many highly basic foods are you cooking?

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's not just cooking that's the problem cleaning it is where I've had most of my trouble. I need to find some stainless steel 1/8 sheet pans. Target sells them in aluminum but every time they start getting grungy, how roll the dice on a little lye to clean them off. I can let them soak for a couple of minutes then basically sand them down to get off deep baked on oils.

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