Do you remember the big hootenanny they had all those years back when they started making the connection between cooking with aluminum pans and Alzheimer's? Is that still dogma?

I never heard that.

Or, else I forgot it because I have alzheimers.

It must be due to all those aluminium pans you're using!

Seriously though, I don't know of a link to alzheimers, but I do remember problems with aluminium reacting with certain things. I think boiling eggs was one of them. Doesn't it turn the pan a black colour if you do this?

I forgot.



seriously, I did hear something about Teflon giving off fumes, but believe it was only if you turned the temp up to some outragous amount and burnt the pan to death!

I have never heard anything about either of these? I must be too young to be aware or something. The only thing that I ever heard is if you have pet birds you are not suppose to have teflon in the house because they could come in contact with it and get very sick.

It's been wholly discredited, but still around. According to my sister, who works for Williams-Sonoma, the Teflon problem was with people who worked in the Teflon factory and were surrounded by it 8 hours a day.

I'd never heard of the teflon thing anyway.

I do know birds are suseptible to noxious fumes, which is why they used to use them down mines. It's probably where the rumour comes from. - Not the mines the fumes.

probably just anothe rumor to cut down on the Teflon sales...

I love a good conspiracy!