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

[Jerry Frost]

Terry:

I'd be real hesitant to use salvaged metal of any kind 
for food. Excepting rycycling known food grade metals 
of course.

My two puka shells.

Frosty
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it ain't real.
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From: "terry l. ridder" <terrylr at blauedonau.com>


> 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?
>
> -- 
> terry l. ridder ><>
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