Aluminum Brining Pot

Doc_Eggerton

While shopping for supplies for a yakitori cook this weekend, I came across what must be a 10 gallon aluminum pot.  Any serious adverse consequences from using this as a brining pot?

Not too worried about the potential to damage the pot, it is just plain aluminum.  I don't want to somehow flavor the meat or risk a health issue.

Cymbaline65

I have an exact kind of pot. It's called the "BASP" to my wife - "big ass stew pot." I've had nothing adverse happen when I've used it - even for overnight brines.

fishlessman

have never had a problem with an aluminum pot making the taste different and im using my great grandmothers old aluminum pots with the wooden handles, even keeping food in the fridge overnight. thinking of all the old frozen dinners stored in those aluminum trays that i grew up eating with all that added salt and still didnt notice any off flavors. i bough a huge plastic beer cooler at the christmas tree shop this summer though that would probably fit 3 turkeys and it cost 12 dollars, i would ptobably still go with the beer cooler, easier to control temps

Eggcelsior

You may get some leaching with acid foods but not very much, we are talking on a microgram level. Aluminum salt antacids have 200 or so milligrams.

The aluminum-Alzheimers link that popped up in the sixties has never been proven.