'Does metal cookware react with food?

Answer 1

Yes it does. As a matter of fact, you may use an iron skillet to obtain a daily dose of Iron Or Fe by scrambling your morning eggs in this. Also, it depends on the hardness of the metal, what its' Rockwell hardness is. The harder the metal, the closer the atoms are to each other. Therefore, when you apply heat to softer metals, of course you are going tolose some of the excited atoms in the metal into the food. This is basic chemistry. My husband is a metalurgist and he claims that copper can be really awful when mining it or welding, soldering etc. so I would like to sta away from that...even tho the food is supposed to be cooked more evenly because the heat is distributed all over the surface of the copper. A very good conductor of electricity and heat. The best pots I have ever owned were from my Great Aunt Paula Helff-Weber who probably got them from Germany, which is where I got all kinds of medical and cutting tools from. These pans had iron bottoms surrounded by a very high grade stainless, with the old hard black plactic handle that could withstand nuclear Holocaust. These pans are excellent and my Aunt should know, she was an aristocrat in Germany, became a cook for millionaires here, made a mint, opened a German deli in New York City and became millionaires. Their food was the best in the city for deli's. She got hit by the dpression in Germany, and then again in '29 in our country, and she and my uncle worked their way back to being millionaires again. But, they worked about 18 hours each and every day except for Sunday for Catholic church. History lesson done. Always spend that extra 20 or 30 dollars to get the better brand that has proven to last and keep working. Not much these days do, so you have to learn from the experts.