Nonreactive: What The Crap is That?

[silverwolf636]

I've been searching the net for the definition of a nonreactive mixing bowl.
I feel like in Cookin 101.

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[fire it up]

It's a cooking bowl that doesn't laugh when you tell it a joke and doesn't cry when you slap it around, just sits there and stares blankly at you.

 

[chefrob]

kinda like someone on prozac..........

stainless or glass will work.

 

[orlandosmoking]

ROFLMAO

thanks

 

[pignit]

Needs to be a material that will not react to the food your working with. Salts and acids.... Red says some acids will react with stainless. I don't argue with Red. Glass / Pyrex / Plastic is your best bet. This is why you don't cure jerky in an aluminum pan.

 

[chefrob]

interesting......is this for long term contact only?

 

[silverwolf636]

Got it. Sorta like my wife when I ask her when were we married?

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[silverwolf636]

Thank ya. LOL.
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[bman62526]

Yep, non reactive would be plastic or glass...REactive would be copper, stainless, any sort of metal.

 

[pignit]

Here is a great definition....
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-non-reactive-bowl.htm
This really miffed Red... I may get a beating out of this guys. Thanks Ray.....

 

[shooterrick]

Well I could go into that ion exchange stuff being a laboratory technician but simply stated: It won't corrode with watever you are putting in it and for our use that means plastic or glass. Just don't put hydrochloric in glass! LOL Oh and no sulfuric in plastic. LOL

 

[chef jeff tx]

My wife would react to that & I'd come to in the ER!!

 

[pignit]

Reds been runnin around here like a buzz saw... she is partially right on the stainless.

"Stainless steel is good for cooking but not for storing food. It is the oxygen in the air that keeps stainless steel from corroding and it will begin to corrode if covered continuously with food etc."

So it's a matter of what your using it for. Mixing something would be fine... storing something would be not so good.

 

[silverwolf636]

LOL, that link helped out a lot. Thanks again.
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[alx]

What a shame man....You were just helping out....

 

[cajunsmoke13]

Thanks. Always wondered that too, but never looked it up...

 

[bbally]

Stainless is non-reactive and can be used for all non-reactive applications in regards to food.

 

[richtee]

As well as surgical operations, non-allergenic jewelery and joint replacements.... if that helps.

 

[desertlites]

Good point Rich,and thanks Bob-I will continue useing SS as I have for many years in alot of my food preps.

 

[silverwolf636]

Now that is good to know. My wife is suppose to go in for a complete knee replacement the 4th of february. I have a reputation in my family that I've been able to fix/weld just about anything. Well, with this info, I see no reason why she has got to spend all that money just to have someone that studied for 8-10 years do it. I am heading to Amazon books and picking me up a copy of "Knee Replacement for Dummies." My huntin knives always have an edge on them that I could shave with them.
Not only has SMF helped me learn fantastic smoking techniques but now it is saving me thousands of dollars on her operation. SMF comes thru again. Thanx Gang!!!
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