Aluminium Screw Lid Tins

[Big_bazza99]

Is it safe storing food stuffs (coffee and coffee whitener) in aluminium tins.

I have seen some here:

http://www.naturallybalmy.co.uk/ourshop/cat_131582-100ml-Aluminium-Screw-Lid-Tin.html

I have always used plastic ones but they are too wide to nest in my mugs, making my kit a bit bulky and these seemed like the best fit unless anyone else has any other ideas/suggestions.

Thanks

Paul

 

[bilmo-p5]

If 75mm Ø isn't too big, small beans tins etc. with snap on plastic lids ( pet food covers ).

 

[Totumpole]

THose aluminium tins look good though, could stack several tall - 1 for coffee, 1 for tea, 1 for milk, add my swedish folding mug and it should still fir in my 10cm zebra with a cleaning rage stuffed down the side.
Cheers for the link!

Colin

 

[suburban bushwacker]

with a cleaning rage

The Ex Mrs SBW used to have one of those

 

[rik_uk3]

I got a load of medical specimen jars off eBay, various sizes, 100ml up to 250ml 50 cost me about £7 IIRC. Plastic with metal lids, water and air tight.

 

[EdS]

I got a load of medical specimen jars off eBay, various sizes, 100ml up to 250ml 50 cost me about £7 IIRC. Plastic with metal lids, water and air tight.

and the come with their own attached little spoon.

 

[rik_uk3]

and the come with their own attached little spoon.

Na, the ones with the spoon are crap.

 

[ged]

Is it safe storing food stuffs (coffee and coffee whitener) in aluminium tins. ...

A lot of drinks and other foodstuffs are sold in aluminium cans, a lot of cooking utensils are aluminium, and aluminium foil is, er, aluminium, so yes, probably it's safe.

There have been suggestions that aluminium might be linked to Alzheimer's disease, I don't know if there's a consensus in the medical profession nor if there is, what it might be. A while ago it was almost a scare, but I think even then the evidence wasn't overwhelming.

When I studied materials science at university a lecturer told us about an experiment at a canning factory where he advised them on metal treatments. The idea was to use aluminium cans for baked beans instead of tinned steel cans which is what they're normally sold in. So they made a few thousand cans of beans and got lots of people to try them.

Apparently most people said that they didn't like the taste of aluminium in the food, and the factory told our lecturer about this. He said that this was odd, because aluminium doesn't have any taste.

It turned out that people didn't like that the beans didn't taste of tin, which is what they taste of when they come out of tinned steel cans.