My mom was being an idiot and used the steel spatula to scrape the cookies off an aluminum cookie sheet. Now there are small bits of aluminum on the bottom of the cookies. I just ate a few of them (5) before i noticed it, should I be worried?
If it's only a little bit then it will just not be digested and pass through your body and come out your rear end. It's fine, as long as you don't swallow something like a ball-bearing.
It would only be a problem if you constantly expose yourself to aluminum filings. Heavy metals (things like lead or mercury) are toxic to people. What most people don't realize is that that in order for these metals to be toxic, you have to be exposed to them for a long period of time and in fairly large quantities. In general, lead is in your tap water. You've probably accidently drank more aluminum filings from soda cans than you have eaten from those cookies. Still though, there is no point in trying to expose yourself to something you know you shouldn't have in your body. So I wouldn't eat any more.
