If you search for the healthiest cookware, stainless steel is at the top of almost every list. But is it as safe as people think? In this video, I’ll explain in simple terms what the latest research says about stainless steel cookware safety so you have all the facts before cooking your next meal.
Oregon State Study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4284091/
University of Messina Study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27804135/
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The two studies I referenced in the video are linked in the description. The full University of Messina study is behind a paywall but you can access the entire Oregon State study for free.
What about aluminium core? Is there any leach of aluminum? I would prefer copper core.
When I make tomato sauce, I cut up pieces of stainless steel and put them in the sauce to get that secret metal flavor. I also make sure to play Iron Maiden for background music to stimulate those metal ions.
Let's review stone cookware!
So true stainless steel have so much heavy metals when aluminium pans are just one metal , they trying to kill us
Excellent explanation! No fluff, just a solid scientific analysis.
If stainless steel is unsafe to cook on then we are all in trouble because the other stuff is worse
I’m team carbon steel❤
I use carbon steel 80% of the time. To me the extra work is exciting because i love cooking and the process of taking good care of my car bon steel pans and won are fun for me.
This is the same thing that Matfer Carbon steel pans just got dragged through that Ultimately got Disproved with the tomatoes sauce test. Shame on you for perpetuating this myth
I like your preview but you did not mention all the types of numbers for stainless steel you only mentioned two I would like to know more about the others.
I tossed all mine and went back to eating fast food everyday. No nickel for me!!
You can't cook acid in a carbon steel food pan without the risk of chromium and arsenic or whatever else. Ask Matfer. They know
I didn't care anymore. Everything is toxic to you.
What is the safest cookware for health? 😢
The reason the older pots/pans had less N and C is because they've been leaching the N and C all thru out
their lifetime of being used ,so you consumed it over a period of time already.
Could you please tell how to deal with a brand new stainless steel frying pan, can I get rid of nickel and chromium by boiling sacrifice tomato sauce in it a couple of times before using ig for actual cooking?
Thanks, this has gone a long way to give me info on the issue I've been concerned with: I drink a lot of tea from steel (S/S) containers, and I also like having/using different ones… I buy some directly from China but I notice that many on amazon are also from China. They say 304 or 316, but even with a bit of skepticism, at least I know which heavy metals are most likely. Reference to the studies is exactly what I look for, and I can extrapolate (a bit) to how I use these tumblers… I do the steeping in a known brand, and only decant (a lot less hot) to the off-brands, and green tea is a lot more alkaline. Thanks, very helpful!
Id rather earth materials than man made materials non stick 😂 is this fool serious amd yes it is frustrating getting lies for ppl trying to make money clealry stainless steel way better nickel amd other metal go through our pours and is basically goes in our blood stream they made none stick dangerously ' but stainless steel not even 1 percent of nickel of metals its normal nickel and stainless steel and season it no ceramic bulkshit tht got chemical that protect layer has amd anither thing the duponts im pretty sure come uo with the none stick pan watched a documentary on shults wresrler dude amd the air to the none stick creaters fortune was him great netflix film doc fox catcher explains this was the last he didnt hav a wife or kids local police were using his property for hunting and stuff very unstable rich dude insane story left the fortune to a russian or European bloke lil bloke his fortune its absolutely crazy story and trust me he wouldnt care if his invention is killing you for the greater good rich ppl are so far from hard working struggling man he would pay a lawyer real entited rich guy ztuff not like us
BS…SAFER than other cookware.
Is this due to the imbeciles tariffs on steel?….
Funding by the Teflon companies. 😂
Chromium is an essential nutrient
great info….did they use stainless steel 18/0? FORCE brand stainless steel is 18/0
A bit of a misleading title then if Stainless Steel is safe
How you eat?
I still believe stainless steel cookware to be one of the safest choices unless you are extremely sensitive to some of its components. Let common sense be your guide. Extreme testing methods do not reflect real-world use and practices. Back in April of 2024 a French testing agency called for a recall of Matfer carbon steel pans because they were leeching iron, chromium, manganese, and arsenic into acidic foods that were cooked in them. Just recently carbon steel pans made by Mauviel were also being recalled in France and the European Union for the same reasons. The local government testing agencies that performed these tests were boiling acidic water in raw, unseasoned carbon steel pans for hours. Of course they leeched these undesirable substances, but these testing methods did not follow the manufacturer's instructions for proper use and care, specifically to season the pans properly before use and to NOT cook acidic ingredients like tomato products, citric juices or other acidic substances. Cooks who like cooking with carbon steel know very well not to use their cookware this way. These tests were unrealistic yet the pans are being recalled anyway. The best thing you can do is be informed and make your choices accordingly. On the whole, I believe stainless steel cookware to be a far safer option than carbon steel, but they both have their issues. I will stay with my choice of stainless steel and enameled cast iron cookware. They do everything I need.
Maybe you could do a video that tells us something safe & good!
Any studies like this for aluminum pans?
Then the cast iron has leeching problem as well such as lead…
I use 100% pure diamond cookware. Scratchproof, non-leaching, very durable, very very beautiful. The only downside is cost. They say pure radium cookware doesn't even require a heat source.
Only enameled cast iron and glass are suitable and health for thermal preparation of food in them and no others, regardless of whether stainless steel with additives is 18/10 or 18/0.. that's a myth.
What should I use then
I have vintage copper bottom, stainless steel pots. (Stainless steel on the inside only copper on the bottom) some of them are probably 50 years old, maybe way more! They seem perfectly fine except for a bit of pitting. So going by this, its better that they are older except I'm wondering if that changes since they are pitted? It seems unclear online but likely that pitting could mean the leeching is more likely? Have you got any insight on this?
I'd say just hold your food over a fire with a wooden stick but Millennials all bought induction stoves because they equate water boiling with cooking.
There are 18/0 steel pans. What about them anybody uses them?????
I'm more concerned about the aluminum bolts that most pots use to attach handles on the stainless steel pots. I noticed the bolts on mine are scratched and worn down, meaning cooking acidic foods and my washing the pots in my dishwasher has resulted in consumption of a good bit of aluminum. I have an older set of pots that don't use aluminum bolts, or any interior attachments. So I am using those more, and searching at Goodwill for older boltfree stainless steel pots to replace the others. I love using my dishwasher, but apparently it hates aluminum.
titanium cookware is the safest and yet affordable option, or actually triply of titanium-aluminium-stainless steel. of course you can buy silver pan if you are too rich.
Guess what, if you live any where there is dust in the air. You will inhale minute quantities of Chromium, its ever where. I've been eating out of and from stainless steel plates, bowls and pots for 20 years. So you show me a ten year double blind study, then we can talk.
No chemists cook on stainless, lol 😂
why blur out the news post in the beginning of the video???
So then get your pans from Mums kitchen.
Just stop and think about this a minute. A study done in OREGON produced different results than study done in ITALY. Is anybody surprised by this?
Here is how this works. The fear mongering libs in the colleges want to appear useful. So they grab stainless cookware and test it and test it and test it yet further until finally they produce the results they were looking for. AHA! They say cooking is POISON!
One day they will inject pure water into ten thousand rats until they all look like big blisters. Eventually one of them will die from heart failure. They will say, AHA! Water is 'linked' to heart failure! we are the saviors of the world. Next we will look at the weather…………….
Art from Ohio
PS: This is not a bad reflection on Prudent Reviews – I think he is GREAT! He is just a tad too nice on this subject that inflames the rest of us. Just remember, California has a legal warning saying if you touch a power tool you should immediately wash your hands or you will get "CANCER"! Think I'm kidding? Look it up.
who tf has nickel alergies????? 💀 this is 100% propaganda made by big teflon