Sunshine, if you do some searches and reading you will find that stainless steel contains nickel and a congolomeration of other metals that can include copper, tin, aluminum and others.

There's a book written by a lady named Hulda Clark that is about healing yourself naturally who many people reference on this forum and many other forums and is considered a very important book in the health community. She is dead set against metal contact of any kind, not only dental but any metal used in cooking or glasses, knives, forks, spoons, etc. Dead set against using Reynolds wrap or wrapping food in any kind of metals, etc. Makes sense too if for no other reason than metals are not soluble.

The holistic dentist who removed my mercuries is absolute dead set against nickel and in his opinion it is a major cause of cancer. He said that when Michael Landon died very quickly of pancreatic cancer that he his mouth was full of nickel crowns, many that he had put in with the year of his death.

That is just one man's opinion of course but of all the things I've done to maximize my health, changing out my pans and flatware (forks, knives and spoons) was the easiest and very inexpensive. 'Bout $80.00 for a full set of glass cookware on ebay, $20.00 for bamboo flatware on Crate & Barrel. http://www.crateandbarrel.com/famil...mp;amp;DIMID=400001&SearchPage=1 They are all very beautiful pieces and I've had a lot of compliments from friends and relatives.

A nice benefit is that the food tastes better on many dishes without all the metal leaching into it while it cooks.