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Re: Taste: Microwave Heating vs Boiling



At 2:25 PM -0800 2/19/01, Leigh Palmer, you wrote about Re: Taste:
Microwave Heating vs Boiling:


>As others have pointed out, the tea kettle I use has a copper bottom both
>inside and out. The stainless steel is only on the sides.


According to http://www.revereware.com/products/teakettles/main.html
These are stainless steel teakettles. Copper is toxic, and I can't
imagine why the company, having mastered the secret of bonding copper
to stainless, would make a solid copper bottom.


When I stick my little flashlight down the snout of the kettle, the
bottom sure LOOKS to be copper as opposed to stainless.

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