I wrote about it here, with citations and references and all, but basically stainless steel and aluminum surfaces provide perfect growth and reproduction environments for disease organisms that attack humans.
Your kitchen should be something approaching a “clean room” with all your food preparation and distribution equipment being frequently scrubbed and sterilized, so the opportunities for pathogens to become attached to your kitchen equipment should be limited and provide no more than a little healthy stimulation for your immune system. Stainless is great for boiling water, making soups, frying stuff that might damage cast iron, etc. But I still prefer not to take stainless out into the world and then use it for food. I’ve seen too much gross stuff growing on it! And it should be illegal in hospital environments, frankly.
Interesting.
Is the draw, then, that they are easily sterilized/sanitized surfaces?
Or is is the result of “surgical” grade stainless being used inside people’s bodies that had created the impression it should be (therefore) good to use outside as well?
So I should be looking for a brass tiffin pail. Noted.
Ah, sorry, it’s been a few days. So you’re complaining about the solder used on the outside of the can and the welding rod which is an optional material suggestion for the catch that goes on the outside of the can? Best be sure the label on the next beer bottle you buy is made of food-grade paper and attached with food-grade glue.
Because of course, this is all about making you feel bad…
lead-free solder exists.
it’s all about relative risks. People aren’t choosing to make tiffin pails out of, essentially, scrap because they want to stand out from the crowd. They’re doing this because they can’t afford commercially-available tiffin pails. If this cheap option isn’t available to them, what do they skip buying in order to pay for the factory-made pails? Please research and report back.
Even if leaded solder is used in attaching the clamps to the outside, your perception of risk is exaggerated. Yes, lead poisoning is a danger, but you’re talking about lead leeching from the outside of the container into the food. You might as well worry about walking under fluorescent lights, lest one fall on you and shower you with mercury.
