[TheForge] Old tinware question

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

I would guess that they didn't have modern reservations about additions like lead and cadmium.
I recall cadmium was in a lot of the old marine galvanized coatings.

On Apr 16, 2014, at 2:52 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:


About some old "tinware":

  + "old" = pre-WWII

  + "tinware" = ferrous kitchenware, thin but with remarkably rust
     resistant surface treatment

Some old tinware had a surface treatment with a greenish hue, not
grass-green but vaguely like US army fatigues.  Pot covers, cupcake
tins, cake pans.  Proper "tin plate", modern tin-coated steel as a
material from which to make stuff is shiny. The copper pots I've
tinned with stick tin or TinRite are silvery and eventually go to a
light grey, leaden color.

What was the process used to make the commercial greenish product?

They are remarkably durable and rust-resistant.


One of those things I've wondered about for years. Making Peggy's
birthday cupcakes in pans of such material brought it to mind. :-)

- Mike

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