[Sca-cooks] OT:new question

[A F Murphy]

And in some old houses, that metal getting into your hot water is
lead... no, you don't want to eat it. Even if you have copper pipes,
they are often soldered with lead solder. Even cold water can pick some
up... they tell people in old houses to let the water run a few minutes
in the morning, or if it hasn't run for a while, to flush out water
which has been sitting in your pipes.

Anne
Who learned all this when she taught children who had had some lead
exposure...  be *really* careful if you remodel an old house around
small children!

Avraham haRofeh of Northpass wrote:

>
>Not necessarily in the tank, but possibly in the pipes. Most homes,
>particularly older homes, still use metal pipes to conduct water about. Hot
>water leaches metal out of the pipes faster than cold. It's OK to bathe in,
>etc... but for cooking, cold water is better, since it will have less metal
>content. My mother is sufficiently paranoid on this subject that she got one
>of the 2.5 gallon Brita tanks to sit on her kitchen counter, and exclusively
>uses filtered water for all cooking tasks. I think it's probably overkill,
>but, well, whatever...
>
>Avraham
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