In article >,
Gerry Atrick > wrote:

> After reading another message on here I read the article on Wilkopedia
> and was rather shocked to discover what is in baking powder. I dont
> know about you, but this stuff sounds pretty toxic to us. The
> aluminum and cream of tarter particularly. I sure the hell dont want
> to eat stuff like that. Baking soda is ok, (I think). I'd prefer to
> find something much less toxic. We try to eat natural foods as much as
> we can. I guess I never gave it much thought, figuring it was just
> some sort of yeast. This stuff sounds nasty, in fact I am going to
> toss what we have. What else can be used? Something natural please.

1 part baking soda to 2 parts cream of tartar.

Yogurt can be used in place of cream of tartar, but I don't remember the
proportions. I'd have to check mom's notes in her cookbook.
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In article >,
says...
> > After reading another message on here I read the article on Wilkopedia
> > and was rather shocked to discover what is in baking powder. I dont
> > know about you, but this stuff sounds pretty toxic to us. The
> > aluminum and cream of tarter particularly. I sure the hell dont want
> > to eat stuff like that. Baking soda is ok, (I think). I'd prefer to
> > find something much less toxic. We try to eat natural foods as much as
> > we can. I guess I never gave it much thought, figuring it was just
> > some sort of yeast. This stuff sounds nasty, in fact I am going to
> > toss what we have. What else can be used? Something natural please.
>

The OP is being just plain silly. To read a list of ingredients and
think that something "sounds toxic" is ridiculous. First of all, the
ingredients in baking powder have been used in food for 100 years at
least without a hint of trouble. Second, just because something "sounds
toxic" has no relation to whether it is toxic.

Look at the "ingredients" for table salt. They are sodium, a toxic metal
that bursts into flame when exposed to water, and chlorine, a poisonous
gas used in World War I. Are you going to stop eating salt?



--
Peter Aitken

Gerry Atrick wrote:

> Common Salt does NOT burst into flames. Only magnesium does that.
>
> I dont care to injest aluminum in any form. It's widely known to
> cause nerve problems. Even cooking in aluminum cookware is bad,
> particularly if the food is acidic and removes the metals. We tossed
> all aluminum cookware about 25 years ago.
>
> How do you know that those who have used it for 100 years have not
> suffered effects? Isn't it in these same 100 years that all these
> cancers and other "new" diseases have occurred..... I'm not saying
> that baking powder IS the cause, but it's possible. I'd attribute it
> more likely to cause alzheimers since the nerve effects.
>
> Are we going to continue to let these chemical companies poison us, or
> are we going to stop buying their poisons and put them out of
> business?
> Monsanto Corp. is one of the worst !!!!


Not bad trolling. You were doing fine when you said that baking powder
was poisonous and you wanted to avoid it for yourself, but you gave
yourself away with the battle cry that everyone should avoid it and then
brought Monsanto into it. Using the word "chemical" to mean everything
evil on the face of the earth was another clue. Here's more information
on alluminum:

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


--Lia

On Jan 29, 1:16 pm, Gerry Atrick > wrote:
> How do you know that those who have used it for 100 years have not
> suffered effects? Isn't it in these same 100 years that all these
> cancers and other "new" diseases have occurred..... I'm not saying
> that baking powder IS the cause, but it's possible. I'd attribute it
> more likely to cause alzheimers since the nerve effects.

Cancer isn't a new disease, and neither is Alzheimer's.
It's only been in the last 100 years that improvements in
hygiene and medical care have enabled people to die
of them rather than some infection that's now readily
eliminated with antibiotics.

Cindy Hamilton

Gerry Atrick wrote:
>
> > >
> >Look at the "ingredients" for table salt. They are sodium, a toxic metal
> >that bursts into flame when exposed to water, and chlorine, a poisonous
> >gas used in World War I. Are you going to stop eating salt?
>
> Common Salt does NOT burst into flames. Only magnesium does that.

But he didn't say salt does. Pure sodium is extremely reactive, and reacts
exothermically. Other elements will burst into flames too. Aluminium
powder and shavings can spontaneously combust.

Gerry Atrick wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:40:50 -0500, Peter A >
> wrote:
>
>
>>In article >,
says...
>>
>>>>After reading another message on here I read the article on Wilkopedia
>>>>and was rather shocked to discover what is in baking powder. I dont
>>>>know about you, but this stuff sounds pretty toxic to us. The
>>>>aluminum and cream of tarter particularly. I sure the hell dont want
>>>>to eat stuff like that. Baking soda is ok, (I think). I'd prefer to
>>>>find something much less toxic. We try to eat natural foods as much as
>>>>we can. I guess I never gave it much thought, figuring it was just
>>>>some sort of yeast. This stuff sounds nasty, in fact I am going to
>>>>toss what we have. What else can be used? Something natural please.
>>>
>>The OP is being just plain silly. To read a list of ingredients and
>>think that something "sounds toxic" is ridiculous. First of all, the
>>ingredients in baking powder have been used in food for 100 years at
>>least without a hint of trouble. Second, just because something "sounds
>>toxic" has no relation to whether it is toxic.
>>
>>Look at the "ingredients" for table salt. They are sodium, a toxic metal
>>that bursts into flame when exposed to water, and chlorine, a poisonous
>>gas used in World War I. Are you going to stop eating salt?
>
>
> Common Salt does NOT burst into flames. Only magnesium does that.
>
> I dont care to injest aluminum in any form. It's widely known to
> cause nerve problems. Even cooking in aluminum cookware is bad,
> particularly if the food is acidic and removes the metals. We tossed
> all aluminum cookware about 25 years ago.
>
> How do you know that those who have used it for 100 years have not
> suffered effects? Isn't it in these same 100 years that all these
> cancers and other "new" diseases have occurred..... I'm not saying
> that baking powder IS the cause, but it's possible. I'd attribute it
> more likely to cause alzheimers since the nerve effects.
>
> Are we going to continue to let these chemical companies poison us, or
> are we going to stop buying their poisons and put them out of
> business?
> Monsanto Corp. is one of the worst !!!!
>



I suggest you avoid diHydrogen monoxide like the plague. It has killed many people .
Ed R

Gerry Atrick > wrote in
:

> I dont care to injest aluminum in any form.

Nah, just use it for your headwear...

seriously, if Aluminum was the ONLY thing you touched on, I'd give you a
pass, but Cream of Tartar? Give me a freakin break, it's Tartaric Acid, a
by product, once upon a time, of wine production, just as yeast was once a
byproduct of beer production.