It's probable that silver plated brass or bronze was around long before stainless flatware and was widely used by the lower middle class till the 60s.

Ode

At 05:15 PM 3/7/2006 -0800, you wrote:

Jim,
I think there is quite a difference between eating cooked food from a silver plate at room temp, or using cups, bowls, spoons etc in a similar fashion, also at tolerable temps than there is in cooking at foods at very high heats with silver frying pans ~ which is what Dan is alluding too.

Were it practical, in theory to do so, there is no doubt that there would be historical evidence of people using silver for cooking....when considering the time frames, one is generally talking about wealth that spared themselves no possible pleasure or extravagance. It was the exclusively wealthy that started the trend. As people acquired means, silver eventually became more accesible and affordable to where anyone who saved their pennies could acquire a sterling silver tea sets and silverware.

Jim Holmes <[email protected]> wrote:
History does not show that to be the case.

I do not know the dates well, but I would guess from about the 1400s onward
into the 1900s one of the first things that relative wealth would buy was a
set of silver plates, cups, bowls and spoons. The amount of silver leached
from the silver was adequate to protect even against plague, but not enough
to give Argyria.


Much modern table ware is made of silver at the present time.



-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Nave [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 9:00 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: CS>Curing Cast Iron to As Good As Teflon Non Stick

Using silver plating on a frying pan sounds like a really great and
efficient idea -

for getting Argyria!

As "Ole Bob" might say, 'STOP THIS IDEA RIGHT NOW,' before you hurt
yourself...

Dan

(Just my opinion...)



Charles and others wrote this, and similar things:

>>> "Charles Sutton" 3/6/2006 8:56:29 PM >>>

----- Original Message -----
From: Max Sanders
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: CS>Curing Cast Iron to As Good As Teflon Non Stick


Charles
Actually, I like the idea of a silver plating too! Is this
practicle? How to do this if it makes sense?

I have seen plating done, but don't know how to do it. Looks much
like the way we make CS (electricity to the pan, and a rod of silver)

Charles, how do you know really that no iron is transfered? This
would seem to me to be varialble b! ased on acidity and heat, etc.

Actually did some guessing here, since the carbon is between the iron
and the food... maby a guru on the list can enlighten us.

Charles.



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