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Sherry
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Oct 23, 2018
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This cookware has a layer of stainless on the inside and outside and 3 layers of aluminum in between. One scratch and the toxic aluminum properties are leaching into your food. You can read about it here: https://www.swissdiamond.com/premium-clad
Jaggi
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Oct 24, 2018
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SherryOne scratch? The Swiss Diamond site doesn't mention how thick the layers are, but typically the stainless layer is thick enough that you'd have to use a power tool to cut all the way through to the aluminium below.
Not to mention that the potential health issues of using aluminium cookware have been way overblown. Even using uncoated aluminium cookware is unlikely to leach any significant amount of aluminium into your food.
Not to mention that the potential health issues of using aluminium cookware have been way overblown. Even using uncoated aluminium cookware is unlikely to leach any significant amount of aluminium into your food.
Naftoor
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Oct 25, 2018
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SherryUnless you're using your pan as a cutting board on a regular basis for some reason, or are incredibly OCD about scrubbing it clean and use BKF until your fingers bleed as a nightly routine I doubt you'll ever compromise the steel to any real degree.
Most high end cookware if it isn't carbon steel is this style of clad cookware. The aluminum sandwich allows faster heat distribution to reduce hot spots, while the stainless steel offers strength/scratch resistance/ease of cleaning/passivity to food and lets it be used with induction cook tops. I've never actually heard of anyone wearing through the cladding layer before, on any clad pan. The only situation I've heard of something similar is with nonstick coatings, or with tin coatings on copper pans.
Beyond that, as @Jaggi mentioned, aluminum is pretty blown out of proportion. Is it great for you? Probably not. Is it going to kill you 10 years down the road or cause cancer? Probably not. The odds are you're already exposed to a ton of things in aluminum. Many restaurants use aluminum stockpots for when they're making massive recipes of stocks or soups due to how much cheaper then they are then clad stock pots, and how much lighter they are. If you've ever watched diners drive ins and dives or a similar show and they show a stockpot big enough to dispose of a body in, then it's probably aluminum.
This is a great price on clad pans, I would be all over it if the stock pot was 12 quarts instead of the 7ish.
static.overdub
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Dec 13, 2018
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SherryI'd say the paranoia is far more dangerous, no?
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