I recently made a cheesecake using a water bathI put aluminum foil around the bottom of the pan in 2 or 3 layers, set it in a roasting pan, but it still leakedLuckily, it didn't completely ruin my cakeIt just made the bottom crust a bit too moistThe rest of it came out perfectly, just like you would have bought it from a professional bakeryI was so proud, except for the moist bottomI read that you can put a pan in the oven on a different rack (a bottom rack, obviously), but wouldn't that interfere with one of the reasons for a water bath in the first place (that in a water bath, it bakes with a slower and more even rise in temperature)? Does anyone have any experience with baking a cheesecake without a water bath, or have any other ideas? I would rather hear personal experiences, and not just posts directly from a website, unless the website says what YOU would have said in the first place.
You should mention HOW it's toxic, or at least a source.
I am glad that someone other than myself has discovered that aluminum has the possibility of being hazardous to healthBut it is in so many of our every day uses, even deodorant, can packaging of drinks, I guess that the long term effects are out weighed by the monetary contributions to the societyMoney talks and we are in the land of moneyI guess that you will just have to look at the contents label of products you are buying and will have to try and forego the products with added aluminum content.
You do realize touching a pure metal isn't the same as ingesting a different molecular form of that metal, right? The aluminum chloride in deodorant that's been linked to breast cancer isn't the same as your aluminum tinfoil Just like I can poke a bit of mercury with an ungloved finger and be fine, but eating mercury ore will make me go bugfuck crazy, the toxin has to be in a form your body can absorb, and there's no danger to touching pure aluminum.
Because it doesn't flake off and it's non-reactive in cookwareA better question is why do we use antiperspirants (that are absorbed into the skin) that are based on aluminium.
