View Single Post
  #20 (permalink)   Report Post  
Julia Altshuler
 
Posts: n/a
Default Aluminum baking sheets

wrote:
> Any suggestions on working with aluminum baking sheets?
>
>
> Using Aluminum can be very dangerous and is harmful to brain tissue.
> It isn't a cooking medium of choice.



Here's information on that urban legend:

http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/valentin.htm

The way I remember it, there were autopsy reports on finding abnormal
amounts of alluminum in the brains of Alzheimer's patients that made
some people afraid of using alluminum cookware. I first heard this in
the 1980s and didn't know the rumors went back to the 1920s until I
checked Snopes. Later reports debunked the original research, but that
didn't make as big an impact in the news.

--Lia