Aluminium Cookware: Toxic or Not?
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- Опубликовано: 26 янв 2024
- Aluminium is the most common metal on the earth's crust. In fact, 8% of the earth's surface is Aluminium. It's everywhere - in the water you drink, it's in the soil, in vegetables you eat, in medicines you take.
So we ingest aluminium all the time, so the real question is - does the extra bit of aluminium that leaches from your vessels into your food somehow cross into toxic territory.
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Didn't the older generations mostly used cast iron vessels and utensils? Aluminium utensils became more widespread because of industrialisation and mass production.
It was introduced to India specially during British rule. You know why
So what? Older generations didn't get cancer?
You are very right.
No we've used aluminum since 80s . Only rich people used cast iron since old days.
@@deepthinker1710 yes that’s bcz British looted many of our families and made us to use aluminum
Very good summary, but the part that is poorly constructed is the reasoning that just because our of previous generations have been using it for a long time and they don't visibly show signs of toxicity, it is usually safe.
Many forms of
Please explain how else will you prove the toxicity of a material?
@@ecoideazventures6417 The life expectancy was 50 years, much of long-time toxicity effects start showing after you turn 80.
I noticed long time back lemon rice wrapped in aluminum foil , that was brought to a hot picnic day had small holes on top. the acid in the lemon reacted with foil. I never use Aluminum pots after that. No Teflon, No Aluminum, no Microwave in our house. In olden days people used clay pots to cook soups, rice etc. those are the healthiest.
100 %
What's wrong with microwave?
@@themanape google that question
@@michaellawson6533 What should I find?
Microwave ain't bad. We are surrounded by microwave. You get more radiation from Sun
My momma knew this more than 25 years ago. She used to cook rice and plain dal in aluminum utensils, and didn't cook curry or gravy sabzi in aluminium utensils. She would say aluminium reacts with sourness of Tomato/tamarind in curry.
She isn't a science graduate, but she's avid reader and new all these things. She's 68 now.
As I say in my book (Masala Lab), it’s the practical knowledge of actually spending time in the kitchen that matters, not food science. The science merely brings clarity of communication of the core principle behind why something works
This is 100% true. Just because it's not toxic doesn't mean that it doesn't make food taste bad.
👌👏👏👏👍...As always ...Myth Debunked ...In the best way..clear ..simple ...well researched !!!! And makes our life easier...to live !!!!😊 Tks Mr Ashok ...As always very grateful to you ❤
Wow thank you so much.... Ive been trying to replace all my alluminium untensils to steel and other expensive materials..but now i get it. 🙏
Wonderful illuminating video. I often avoid using aluminum or look down on food cooked in such vessels. Keep up the good work. Thanks
Thanks, you obliged all of us, in fact even rich in small towns and villages do use some aluminium vessals, as you say avoid slow cooking and acidic ingredients,Bravo
Most restaurants also! Its a fantastic conductor
Aluminium is a highly reactive metal. While this is normally a bad thing for cookware, pure Al instantly reacts with atmospheric oxygen and create a barrier coating of Aluminium Oxide which acts as a strong protective coating. Aluminium oxide is strong stuff - it takes a very substantial acid to break it down, and if the food you are consuming is that acidic, the extra Al consumed is among the least of your problems.
Define "highly reactive", because it is Oxygen which is highly reactive -- it is the second most electro-negative element after Fluorine; so nearly every metal is going to form an oxide (e.g. rust over Iron). One cannot assert something is highly reactive based on interaction with Oxygen alone. If one is worried about strong acids, the acid in our stomach (HCl, with pH that can go as low as 1.0) is stronger than most things one would ingest unless one is gulping down HCl or H2SO4.
@@0m13dude your body needs iron but it doesn't need aluminium.
Here's a free tip for you my friend:
Only trust internet autists when making choices about health these experts are idiots who only read headlines over the internet and have no idea of the nuances.
@0m13 I guess you misread the first line, He's talking about metals. Aluminum is a highly reactive METAL. Reactivity can be measured and grouped into three broad categories (Reacts with Water, Reacts with Acid, and Highly Unreactive)
Aluminum comes at the top list of Reactions with Acid, hence it is a highly reactive metal
And what I guess the original comment meant was Aluminum being reactive will produce an Aluminum Oxide layer which will prevent any Aluminum-Food contact in the first place so no Aluminum contamination for the food
Anodised Al renders it non reactive
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Wonderful to find such clear, rational content. I look forweard to investing time in the rest of your output. Thank you
Thanks for this! You wouldn't believe the level of peace your video has given me. I was genuinely worried that I had been inadvertently poisoning my family all these years.
After all he can only give you peace but not the solution
What if he come with another video after few years that some reasearch find out aluminium vessels is bad
So don't trust these people, they change their opinions based on every new research papers
Don't use aluminium for cooking,
Especially for curd, fermentation process, pickels, etc..,
They are very dangerous and causes brain damage
What you want is health not the peace
So true!!!!
No, it is Poison. Aluminium is present only in traces in your food, but if you cook food using aluminium everyday, you already damaged the nerves of your family.
😄😁Your comment made me chuckle!
Seriously
Simply fantastic. Thank you for such beautiful presentation. Be blessed.
Thank you
Ah! I was looking for this reaffirmation; thanks a lot.🙏
So nicely explained and in plain English after tying all the basic concepts. And then nicely recapped with simple points to remember!! Thank you!!
Thank you
Thank you so much. Lots of confusion has gone. I was watching your channel for a while and I just subscribed. Thanks a lot for your help.🙏😍❤️
Another insightful video as always. Thanks Krish for addressing my video request!
The fact about dry and gravy is mind clear info...thank you for spreading right knowledge.
Thank you very much for these useful info,much helpful
When Krish Ashok makes a video on something, it is THE video on it. You do a great job of presenting the facts in a clear and accurate way, and make sure to address all the relevant sensationalism or fearmongering.
Thank you!
This guy is a quack influencer. No scientific basis to anything at all. Just personal opinions. Everyone need to start reporting him for misinformation
@@krishashok
Blind leading the blind
And both fall in ditch
Logic leads to some level and then it gets clueless
Why eat food
For energy and raw materials to build and repair body
Why not direct energy from the Sun and water
And various elements directly
?
Some reason will be given
Say Because X
Then
Why X
Because Y
Why Y
Because Z
And
Ask 6 to 10 times in a row
And you will reach a stage where
You have no more reasons left
Just have to keep mum or
Say
It is So
Hence it is so
If I sound naive and far fetched in this
Please accept then what Richard Feynman has to say on this
Power of
Why ? And limit of its use.
Swans are white by some logic
Till in Australia they discovered
Black swans
Atom was smaller particle till Dalton only
...
Many of us who study science and vouch for it
Often
Start to take high stand that it has all answers
It hasn't
It's limits is matter and energy
Beyond that
The " Consiousness" about it
It knows almost nothing
No doubt
It took
People in western medical profession to learn in this century only that mind and body have connection
Read
Book Molecules of Emotion by
Cadence B Perth about how homeless is the level of knowledge of These who claim to be modern and scientific
They have only scratched at the surface of Mind
And
Atma ?
Power of Atma that created this whole body and maintains it and then let's it fall apart
These scientists
Are as good as duffers though Pandit in their own eyes
Kudos to you for having passion for science but then
Feel sorry for this that you take it to be be all and be end all of knowledge
Thanks a heap for clearing the air, krishashok!
Thank you sir.
As always, it was interesting, educational and very articulate
This has definitely made me feel a lot more at easy. I was worried about cooking my rice in my aluminum pot. Also, side note I am used to seeing you on Instagram and I am subscribed to you over there, nice to see you have a channel here on you tube as well.
This is easier to share on whatsapp and also allows a longer duration to get into harder subjects
@@krishashok I totally agree, I subscribed to you hear as well. This platform is preferred as well for the reasons u mentioned 😊
Originally in india people used to use clay , iron, copper and brass. Aluminum came later as cheaper, lightweight alternatives . Along with that came the nonstick and pressure cookers.
Aluminium is very soft and can leech in significant quantities if the pan or kadai is repeatedly and rapidly scraped while cooking.
source: Trust me bro
@@Aamirmhmd99 Experimenting with metal spatula and pan is not that difficult, I believe.
I share your concerns. Both of us are the minority in this comment section here, I guess.😂
Here is another source you might find interesting: "Lead Safe Mama" does consumer goods testing with XRF technology and the majority of pressure cookers she tested, tested positive for very high amounts of lead in the pressure valve, specially Indian ones, although this seems to be a worldwide problem. She is out of the US. You can google her for further details.
Krish..you prove it again and again that you are a 'food saviour' for us!! I was clueless to what these influencers' demotivation regards to aluminium since we have literally grown upon eating aluminium 😂 and touchwood! Turn out to be decently healthy
Very informative message.. Great...
Really awesome video sir
Great information!
Good to know. thanks for sharing
Always been a fan of your content. Thank you for breaking such myths.
Thank you
Great compilation and please refer the study carried out in Guatemala on the effect of pressure cooking using Aluminium Pressure Cooker before dismiss the impact.
Thank you sir for info and the way presented...
You are most welcome
@krishaahok how do you define healthy vs unhealthy ?
Sir, thank you so much for this very informative video! I literally had questions in my mind due to some recent experience & started googling, when I remembered, Ah! there is Krish Ashok, He must have surely covered it!
So, recently I observed that when I kept some items like home-fermented dosa batter in an old aluminium bowl, some batter near the rim or inner wall of the bowl turned grey. Is consuming this batter or using such bowls safe?
Also, I tend to reuse glass wine bottles to store drinking water in the fridge. With time, the inner walls of the bottle's screw caps (which I think are usually made out of aluminium) start becoming black & this black residue sticks to the portion of the glass bottle where the cap is screwed and interferes with the water we drink. Is this safe?
Really looking forward to your reply!
He is carefully uses the word mostly... That says it all... Nice video
Great Video!
Could you please do one video on cooking oils and which ones are the best?
Thank you sir. Please explain about the use of cast iron vessels in kitchen
Is there such a thing as maximum safe temperature (thats realistically possible to reach in kitchen) that we should try avoid reaching with aluminum cookware?
Excellent succinct video.
Thanks for your common sense. You have a wonderful way of presenting your ideas. Best wishes from New Zealand.
Doubts cleared... thank you so much sir 😊👍
Thank you
Very nice information about aluminium
This is a very well-timed, honest dose of clarity. As the son of a chef, I'm always fascinated by food science.
Thank you, sir, for making our lives so much more easier. You're doing a commendable job. Respect! 👐👏
Thank you Anna, your contents are very informational and scentific.
Can you please do video on air fryer.
It was really a well organised information.
Social media is really goving us a roller coaster ride because of so many dieticians posting videos on how to eat and what so ever. Just cant figure out which one to follow for my kids as well as myself 😮 but the moment your reels n vdos felt like a relief....an eye opener for so many myths ....thank you so much sir 🎉.... Hats off to you for your work.
Thank you
Our grandparents used clay pots and an iron skillet. Still nowadays,clay pots are used.
Clay pots painted with lead containing paint
Clay naturally contains aluminium oxide.
I had the same question and was thinking if there is a way to ask you to clarify this just yesterday!
Thank you Sir…. This video is very helpful specially for me… my parents been using Aluminum vessels for the longest time… just because we live near sea areas ( Aluminum doesn’t catch rust )… 🙏🏻
Thank you for all your effort that helps so called knowledgeable people to get meaningful knowledge. We often get biased with such misleading information.
Thank you
Good information.
Thnx for detailed explanation especially after 4:00 the advice was healthy
Is it safe to store cut veggies in plastic containers/ziploc plastic covers inside the refrigerator for one or two days before use?likewise can small onions and garlic be peeled and refrigerated?
Pls make a video on it.
Greatly explained 👏
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for these incredibly informative videos. They're the easiest and most convincing way to get Whatsapp relatives to agree to something they likely contested for years. I had a request: could you please do a video on enamelled cookware - how useful they might be, why, and how safe it is to use old enamelled vessels? Thanks a lot again.
Thank you!
what a world,all are great doctors and knowledgeable guys,all seem correct with each contradicting each other,not sure whom to believe.
I have an old stove pot aluminium coffee percolator, not a mocha or expresso pot. Is it safe to use?
Thank you for answering my question
Can you please also make an info video on aluminum in deodorants? There's a lot of confusing information.
Is vanaspati ghee safe to use. Sometimes if we use in some dishes is it safe. This question is arising in my mind for so long😊
Very well explained. 🙏🏼🙏🏼👏🏼👏🏼Subscribed.
Welcome aboard!
🎉Tx so much.
Wow exactly what I wanted to know. While on the topic, what’s your opinion on plastic ware - either as containers that store spices, or as containers like Tupperware that store food …
They are fine!
Sir, please do a video on cooking oil? Refined/ cold extracted etc, it would be nice
Thank u so much the peace this give me yes
Yay!
Clear👍
Yay
Very good content ❤,
Can you make an video.. Which vegetables are best steamed and which are best Boiled.. Thanks
Steaming is always preferred unless you are short of time and/or dealing with very starchy root vegetables
It's amazing how things that provide convenience are somehow now being termed as dangerous, Thank you masala sahab for debunking these myths and providing logical context. Todays world is replete with scare mongering and control and your videos are like a ray of hope. I hope more people move towards logic
Your comment on krish ashok is absolutely right.. You have written it so nicely
It’s a slow process. I hope people think for themselves and be skeptical. The last thing I want is for people to blindly trust anyone, me included
What about hindalium KADAI? Are they also safe? I see them being used in many Indian kitchens
You single handedly debunk the nonsense spewed by youtubers like Fittuber. Great job!!
Fittuber is a total nut job or just a hustler who has learned to milk the uneducated nutjobs with no critical thinking skills; I happened to watch one of his videos because it showed up on my feed but couldn’t get past a couple of minutes due to the mind numbing level of pseudoscience being spouted.
So true. Fittuber I've never trusted.
@vishal, thing is healthy people have the capacity to eliminate it is what Ashok said, now tell me definition of healthy or who falls under healthy vs unhealthy, I am not supporting fittuber or this guy, but considering people who watch fittuber are unhealthy and want to become healthy and watch fittuber, should unhealthy people consume Aluminum now ?
@@arjuns1012 as he said, aluminium doesn't make a difference. Having a balanced diet does
@@VishalKhopkar1296 that’s exactly my point, neither this guy is a doctor/expert on body physiology and fittuber guy too, to let general public know what is good or what is bad. Neither this guy says amount of milligram atleast, which at that point one would put an effort to find out what their processing. So blindly taking this guys advice is equally bad. One is spewing based out of ayurveda, one is spewing based out of common science. Criticize both, so that they give proper information and answers and make their future videos better.
What about rice cooker? Thank you
Can you tell about idly in pure aluminum vessel?
Anodised aluminiumnis a coating of aluminum oxide on aluminium is as hard as diamond in sratch resistance. And conducts heat very well.
(197) I prefer clad cookware, and also enameled cast iron (the light kind, not the really thick stuff). I just think aluminum cookware feels "weedy". The light nature of it just does not impress me.
Krish, I wish you gave a few more seconds to what one should NOT cook in aluminium vessels. I have seen several households happily making Sambar/Amti/Dal with tanarind/Kokum/tomatoes in aluminium vessels. 😢😢
The video quite specifically explains what not to cook!
Thank you Krish ! Very valuable info. Could you please also give details on which material vessel could be used for deep frying.
Anything is fine
@@krishashok thank you very much👍
Hello. Very helpful video. My mom is concerned about leaving food in aluminium pots after cooking to store it. She is switching to steel now? Do you know if storing in aluminium is okay?
Iam not sure if it is okay to leave cooked food in an aluminium vessel but I prefer to transfer it to steel utensil coz I have observed that if we leave food for long hours the vessel forms some kind of white matter, even this happens for storing water. I prefer to be on safer side. Just check once u will know it
Always a good day when I see a new krishashok video.
😊
You are the best!
How to be healthy sir i am student so how can i improve my health or how can i get knowledge about nutrition? And what things is important for healthy body?
But pressure cooker was also having pure aluminium can we cook meat (kari kulambu and chukka varuval) for long duration?
Thank you for providing scientific and research backed evidence about food and its consumption. A small request - can you please make a video on whether it is ok to cut vegetables and then store them in the fridge? or buy cut up vegetables from the market and store them in the fridge? How long do these last? Specically vegetables like cabbage and beans. Thanks in advance.
Will do
Pls create a topic of using induction stove uses and also uses of non stick frypan and toxic issues if non sticks goes
@krishashok first of all thanks for debunking the myth. Even I am the one trying to avoid AL in cooking. But I have more deeper question to this one.
I was using AL pressure cooker & Kadhai (not a plated one). The reason I stopped using was it gets blackish from inside and when trying to wash I could see the blackish or greyish water after scrubbing with steel gauze.
I am a lot worried about if it can come in day to wash then it will also get mixed in food.
Would you be able to shed some light on this one?
Really appreciate
Clean using lemon peels. Add the lemon peels while cooking your food
when you scrub your cookware like that, what you're removing is the aluminium oxyde layer on top, which will reform on surface after some exposition to oxygen, later.
Google "Lead Safe Mama". She does consumer goods testing with xrf technology. She found that in most pressure cooers except very few exceptions have pressure valves that contain lots of lead. The Indian ones she tested tested all positive for lead. Moreover cast Aluminium is aso very often lead conterminated. Personally I don't use AL at all in cooking, but when I read the comment section I discovered pretty much 99% of people are very fond of it and are very happy to getting the comforting news in the video. I beg to differ, haha, but that's just me.😂 But no matter if people like AL or not, in terms of pressure cookers folks, please look up this information. It's no laughing matter. One question, I have though. Many people in the coment section thank the host for the scientific debunking. What part of it was especially scientific? Just him saying that? 😅😅😅 Whatever, that's just me, a random bloke on the internet.
Coming back to your question: I think your instinkt is spot on. I would also not feel safe using it.
I still use aluminium. Not economically weak,not rural house., still i use
Go ahead!
Thnk god❤❤
Thanks for video and busting myths. Can you please make video on iron cookware. Is it true that using iron cookware can help over come anemia?
Thanks! Really insightful. Please create a playlist of "Breaking Myths".
Already there!
Long videos ruclips.net/p/PL9MY7_Evn80awP2TWj2PYCbA3uc0e8hFI&si=0v3tAa-91n0CT6rk
Short videos ruclips.net/p/PL9MY7_Evn80b3QScfQ3tYOf8-YxA7zfwj&si=iRLS7zjdqtolNVSL
Love your videos sir.please shed light on aeroplane material.esp in South India they use a material to make pans or kadai esp of aeroplane material.is that also aluminium or an alloy of aluminium? Kindly make a video about this
Some aluminium alloy only!
Thanks alot..my sister and her husband they are very conscious about all those stuff which is related to healthy food.they are buying all the expensive things which i can't afford.but They keep on telling about these things and they ask me to buy and use.now i'm happy that i can use my aluminium utensils without fear.
Wet and sour dish jo long cooking dish kis material me banana chahiye
What about Indoleum vessels used in kitchens looking similar like aluminum??
What about Greblon coating ? Is it safe ?
Hey I requested this video,thank youuu
Hope you like it!
Cost Convenience cannot overwrite core competencies in any manner whatsoever, else pay the hefty price in terms of deterioration of body organs
I do not think aluminum vessels would react much with acidic dishes anyway because of the oxide layer , however if you are scraping the oxide layer with a metal spatula then there is a chance of aluminum oxide build up in food. Correct me if I am wrong 😅