Aluminum BAD!!!

OK, so I'm not gonna use my yellow, 4 quart aluminum pot anymore for any of my brewing activities. It's what had the water in it that *might* have had crap floating in it from when I racked everything. It's what I used to gently boil the peaches and apricots for the wassail. And it's what I used to make my simple sugar syrup last night.

I read that aluminum bad ALUMINUM BAD!!!!! when it comes to working with fruit because the acids in some fruits can react with it and produce wonderful toxins!

Funny, I'm not sure why I didn't remember this. My high-school french teacher loved to tell a story about how he almost rolled into the Mississippi once on a camping trip. He said they made jelly from wild berrys the night before in an aluminum pot. The next morning (after it sat out all night) he licked the pot and had pretty bad food poisoning. He said he was rolling around on the ground cause his stomach hurt so bad and he rolled down onto the lower bank of the river. His buddies had to come fish him out.

Fortunately, the only time I put fruit in it, it only cooked for about 2 or three minutes and then I pretty quickly took it out.