HOMEBREW Digest #0162

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HOMEBREW Digest #162		             Sun 28 May 1989 

	FORUM ON BEER, HOMEBREWING, AND RELATED ISSUES 
		Rob Gardner, Digest Coordinator 

Contents: 
  Re: aluminium effects on restaurants (a.e.mossberg) 

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Date: Sat, 27 May 89 11:27:09 EDT 
From: aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg) 
Subject: Re: aluminium effects on restaurants 

In HOMEBREW Digest #161, Mike Fertsch sez: 

>I went to my local restaurant-supply store today, looking for a kettle.  I 
>found stainless and aluminium, but no enameled steel.  Based on the above 
>discussion, I was surprised that restaurants use aluminium pots - do they 
>get nasty flavors or Alzheimer's disease?  

What a novel idea -- I've never considered the possibility of restaurants 
getting Alzheimer's.  I don't think they're susceptible, though. 

>I've was told that enameled steel pots are not allowed in restaurants; the 
>health authorities are afraid of chipped pots.  I'm not sure if they are 
>worried about the chips themselves, or the reaction of the exposed metal 
>with the food.  Either way, restaurants seem to have no problems using 
>aluminium, but shy away from enamel because of health risks.  

As I understand it, many cheap enamels contain lead.  So the problem is 
the chips themselves.  No new enameled pots use lead-containing enamels. 
As for aluminium, while the link has been rumoured for years, only recently 
has data been available showing a correlation with high brain levels of  
aluminium and senile dementia/alzheimer's, and the legal machinery moves 
slowly and laboriously.    

>Are our requirements that different from restaurants?  My feeling is that 
>they are so I'll look around some more for a 8 gallon enameled steel pot.  

That's what I'd suggest.  I think I saw some in the William's Homebrewing  
catalogue, but any big department store should also have them. 

aem 
--  
a.e.mossberg - aem@mthvax.miami.edu - aem@miavax.SPAN - aem@umiami.BITNET  
Yo no tomo la guitarra por conseguir un aplauso.  Yo canto la diferencia que  
hay de lo cierto y lo falso.  De lo contrario no canto. - Violeta Parra 

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End of HOMEBREW Digest #162, 05/28/89