[TheForge] recycling aluminum tubing to make cannoli tube/form

[Andrew Vida]

Hmmm...  well, 6061 is an alloy of silicon, manganese, copper, iron and 
a few others... I don't think there is any toxicity issue...

1060 is something like 99.5% pure Al.

In any event, you could have the tubes anodized.  The AlO2 coating is 
wholly inert and should pose no problem with food applications.

The wood dowel thing sounds a distant second place alternative for a few 
reasons.

Best wishes.

	-Andy

terry l. ridder wrote:
> hello;
> 
> i have a need to make one dozen cannoli tubes/forms.
> cannolia tubes/forms normally made out of aluminum
> tubing which has been cut to various lenghts. the
> common size for the aluminum tubing is 3/4 inches
> in diameter and 5 inches in length. the dough used
> to make the cannoli is wrapped around the cannoli
> tube/form and deep fat fried. however, before the
> use of aluminum wood dowels were used to form and
> fry the cannoli.
> 
> i have several hardwood dowels of the correct diameter
> and i have aluminum flashing which i could use to make
> a cannoli tube/form. i also have a broken aluminum lawn
> chair which is made from the correct size aluminum tubing.
> 
> i am not at all sure what aluminum alloy the lawn chair
> aluminum tubing may or may not be. i doubt that using
> the lawn chair aluminum tubing for the cannoli tube/form
> would be a problem, but i am just not 100 percent sure.
> 
> could the lawn chair aluminum tubing react in some unknown
> manner with the hot olive/peanut/canola/corn/soybean oil?
>