ALUMINIUM WARE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11177, 5 April 1922, Page 8

ALUMINIUM WARE

REPLACING ENAMEL ARTICLES. BRITISH v. AMERICAN GOODS. ‘‘Aluminium ware is before long going to displace enamel everywhere in the home of domestic use,” said Mr A. A. Stitchbury, of Messrs A. A. Stitchbury and Co., yesterday. He told a “Times’’ reporter that large shipments of aluminium ware have been received from Great Britain recently, from the Braby factory of eighty years’ standing, which should go a long way towards eliminating the American article of inferior quality. Here, also, prices are falling, and the time is fast approaching when enamel ware, with its chips and cracks, will be a thing of the past. Aluminium is a great conductor of heat, but the one fault—if fault it be—is that the aluminium handles also get yery hot, not infrequently resulting in burned fingers. The newest examples hare handler of polished bronze, and are a great improvement. There can be little doubt that aluminium utensils are the most suitable for all domestic purposes, for the “Lancet” says: “Any suspicion that it may communicate poisonous qualities to food in the process of cooking may safely be dismissed in view of the results'of the practical experiments which we have recorded, showing that the metal is not appreciably acted upon in cooking operations.” Mr Stitchbury added that the quality of English aluminium goods from the best factories is so high that they will last a lifetime, and rarely is there any call to replace them. There are kettles, for instance, which have been in constant use for thirty years, and appear as -zoo*! *— ever they were-