So I've done some tidying and recently rediscovered my pewter* tankard. I'm heading out to the Great British Beer Festival this evening, and I remembered hearing that cider + pewter = tasty tasty lead poisoning.
Is there anything I can do to avoid heavy metal poisoning (although not before tonight)? I've heard suggestions of coating the inside (and presumably the lip) with spray acrylic or similar, but that nail polish (for example) would turn out to be unpleasantly toxic.
Has anyone done anything like this? Does anyone even care? Should I care?
D
* NOTE: not sure if it's actually lead pewter and no idea how to tell. Still likely to contain heavy metals like antimony, apparently, so point still stands.
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From: london-hack-space@googlegroups.com [mailto:london-hack-space@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dave Ingram
Sent: 10 August 2012 14:35
To: London Hackspace
Subject: [london-hack-space] Pewter tankards and cider
Hey all,
So I've done some tidying and recently rediscovered my pewter* tankard. I'm heading out to the Great British Beer Festival this evening, and I remembered hearing that cider + pewter = tasty tasty lead poisoning.
Is there anything I can do to avoid heavy metal poisoning (although not before tonight)? I've heard suggestions of coating the inside (and presumably the lip) with spray acrylic or similar, but that nail polish (for example) would turn out to be unpleasantly toxic.
Has anyone done anything like this? Does anyone even care? Should I care?
D
* NOTE: not sure if it's actually lead pewter and no idea how to tell. Still likely to contain heavy metals like antimony, apparently, so point still stands.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: london-hack-space@googlegroups.com [mailto:london-hack-space@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dave Ingram
> Sent: 10 August 2012 14:35
> To: London Hackspace
> Subject: [london-hack-space] Pewter tankards and cider
> Hey all,
> So I've done some tidying and recently rediscovered my pewter* tankard.
> I'm heading out to the Great British Beer Festival this evening, and I remembered hearing that cider + pewter = tasty tasty lead poisoning.
> Is there anything I can do to avoid heavy metal poisoning (although not before tonight)? I've heard suggestions of coating the inside (and presumably the lip) with spray acrylic or similar, but that nail polish (for example) would turn out to be unpleasantly toxic.
> Has anyone done anything like this? Does anyone even care? Should I care?
> D
> * NOTE: not sure if it's actually lead pewter and no idea how to tell.
> Still likely to contain heavy metals like antimony, apparently, so point still stands.
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> No virus found in this message.
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Poisoning aside, the pewter makes it taste wrong. There are certainly
food grade sealants you can get, but I'd be wary of using anything in
my normal artists' arsenal, and definitely not nail polish because
it'll almost certainly dissolve in even moderately strong cider.
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Dave Ingram <d...@dmi.me.uk> wrote:
> Hey all,
> So I've done some tidying and recently rediscovered my pewter* tankard. I'm
> heading out to the Great British Beer Festival this evening, and I
> remembered hearing that cider + pewter = tasty tasty lead poisoning.
> Is there anything I can do to avoid heavy metal poisoning (although not
> before tonight)? I've heard suggestions of coating the inside (and
> presumably the lip) with spray acrylic or similar, but that nail polish (for
> example) would turn out to be unpleasantly toxic.
> Has anyone done anything like this? Does anyone even care? Should I care?
> D
> * NOTE: not sure if it's actually lead pewter and no idea how to tell. Still
> likely to contain heavy metals like antimony, apparently, so point still
> stands.
