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

[Bruce Freeman]

Terry,

I can't speak to the possibility of toxic metals in
aluminum, but some of the others think this not
likely.

The cookie sheet idea someone suggested is a good one
if you're worried about that.

However, another approach is to coat the tube with an
inert, stick-proof coating.  This is easily
accomplished using a modification of the  technique
used to "season" cast iron pots.

Take your tubes and wipe them with the thinnest
possible layer of polyunsaturated cooking oil.  Stand
them on end on a cookie sheet or something in the
over.  Leave them in the over at   400F for one hour. 
The tubes will be brownish in color.  This "ugly" 
brown coating keeps the ba tter off the alumnium and
also prevents sticking.

Bruce
Nj

--- "terry l. ridder" <terrylr at blauedonau.com> 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?
> 
> -- 
> terry l. ridder ><>
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