• lauha@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Surely this only works if the pasta is already in a metallic container made from some other metal than aluminum.

    Surely this doesn’t work if pasta is in a plastic container.

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      1 day ago

      Indeed:

      A “lasagna cell” is accidentally produced when salty moist food such as lasagna or sauerkraut is stored in a steel baking pan and is covered with aluminium foil. After a few hours the foil develops small holes where it touches the lasagna, and the food surface becomes covered with small spots composed of corroded aluminium