[Sca-cooks] Aluminum

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Terry Decker:
>Tinfoil came into use as a food protector in the late 19th Century 
>(tin plated steel cans were patented in 1810).  Because it imparts a 
>"tinny" flavor to food wrapped in it, it was supplanted by aluminum 
>foil beginning in 1910.  Because of the relationship between the two 
>products, the term tin foil is sometimes applied to aluminum foil.
>
>Bear

I'll go with the idea that the term "tinfoil" was applied to aluminum 
more or less out of habit after tinfoil became supplanted on an 
industrial level by aluminum.

But I assumed the issues were more cost and availability than a tinny 
flavor. I confess I don't really know whether I have any actual 
experience with tin cans or foil, but isn't the whole point of tin in 
cookware and utensils the idea that is [nearly] inert, chemically?

Adamantius
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