[Sca-cooks] copper bowls (was whipping egg whites)

[Nicolas Steenhout]

At 10:31 PM 6/22/01 -0400, you wrote:
>"Decker, Terry D." wrote:
> >
> > Copper sheet 22GA. (20 oz)  12 in. x 12 in.  $16, 24 in. x 24 in. $56.36.
> > (this would be about 1/4 in. thick)
> >
> > Bear
>
>Is this a different gauging system than is used for steel? If not, 22
>gauge isn't even close to 1/4 inch thick; more like 1/6 of that. Or, to
>put it another way, your typical stainless steel mixing bowl might be 22
>gauge, a heavy one might be 18 gauge, but that's nothing like 1/4 inch thick.

Yeowza???  And why would anyone want a 1/4" thick sided bowl?  That would
be hell to lift and handle! :-?


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Nicolas Steenhout
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