Healthy grill pan: aluminium or iron?
May 31st, 2008 by Boogie
Googling didn’t help.
The local supermarket has only aluminium grill pans but on the internet I see much praise for the iron ones.
And I recall hearing something about aluminium not being healthy…
I want to make sure I take a good choice, as I plan to use it a lot. Let’s see what I discover.
EDIT:
Issue solved, thanks to Cooks illustrated. Read what they have to say, it was what I was looking for in terms of quality:
http://www.cooksillustrated.com/testing.asp?testingid=453&bdc=5436
In terms of material health, I found this very nice article:
http://www.eartheasy.com/article_healthy_cookware.htm
Also health related, about the dangers of aluminium cookware:
http://yourcookwarehelper.com/which-cookware-is-safe-and-healthy/
And finally, for further reading:
http://vegkitchen.com/tips/healthy-cookware.htm
… 1 week later …
So I went for a 30Euros relatively small grill pan (about 50 $ ?). It is made from aluminium, but has an extra coating to protect the aluminium shell from getting penetrated.
My grill pan saves the day( every day I have some raw meat in the fridge). I tried salmon, chicken and other unidentified fish. All cooked good, without oil(well, I added just a little bit, directly on the meat). The cleaning takes 30 seconds, nothing ever sticked on the pan.
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