permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

grostig wrote:

> We have broken every old Pyrex kettle we have been able to purchase at 
> second hand stores.  They are all gone!  Now I can't even find the new 
> glass pots called "The Whistler".
>
> So I bought an old american made copper bottom, stainless steel body, 
> whistling kettle.
>
> I started to wonder about the amount of copper that might leach out.  
> I'm boiling home made steam distilled water, or reverse osmosis water 
> purchased from those 7 stage machines at grocery stores.  I believe that 
> at least the distilled water is acidic to some extent.
>
> Since we have no copper pipes providing copper, we don't cook acidic 
> food in copper pots, and we assume that minerals are depleated in most 
> food, I figure boiling water in copper will not be a problem.

If your acidic water is in contact with copper you will get some leaching.
This would not be water to drink repeatedly.
Just get a copper-clad pot with all stainless surface in contact with water.
The aluminum-clad are fine too.