I'm not worried about linings in cans, frankly. I was raised on formula, mom let me run around in a halter top every summer and I burned bad repeatedly (already had a lesion cut off my back) so I expect I will die of skin cancer before the BPA has a chance to get me. Or, maybe the BPA already got me cause mom always got can veggies on special, not to mention raviolis and other such gourmet fare. Or maybe those aluminum pans mom used to heat the canned goods the whole time I lived at home (birth to 19) will catch up with me and give me early onset dementia. Or maybe I'll fall off Half Dome when we go on the moonlight hike in August. Or then there's swine flu, which is starting to show up in my state. I drive around in a town full of people who merge randomly without signaling. And to top it off I'm smack in the middle of a cluster of gang territories. So, you know, I figure boiling water in the Fosters can six or seven times this year is probably pretty low on the list of risks I take. Excuse me while I roll my eyes loudly.

See what I mean? An unexplainable mystery.

Are you using any teflon at home? Yes, you are. It's in space heaters, ovens, couches, Goretex, and all kinds of things you don't know about because they don't put it on the labels.

It's more toxic than BPA by far, and more pervasive. It causes a documented set of symptoms - teflon flu - and it has killed a ton of pet birds over the years, outgassing when it's heated to higher temps. The plant in the nor'east is at the center of a cancer cluster - they make it, they get cancer.

Totally unexplainable. We don't care. We keep using the stuff.

Actually I've recently gone back to my old cast iron frying pan, but we still use a couple saucepans that have teflon coating.

Better keep them in good shape, PFOAs (even tho nonstick coatings are "safe" according to DuPont) are being phased out by 2015.... Can't just stop using them, too many millions of dollars at stake.

Jim Shaw, trust me there are enough chemicals in your food so that you need not worry about the chemicals in a beer can liner...sabre11004...

I am thinking that if you put a beer can through enough burnings that the plastic liner may just melt off but I would be real certain that it did before I actually used it for cooking or boiling water. I would just want to make sure that all the plastic was well melted out before I used it for any thing like that...sabre11004....

EGAD! I really started something here W/ my comment on the suspicion of the toxicity of cooking in beer cans. Didn't mean to hijack the thread but had to caution UBER ultra light-ers.

As I read somewhere here on this site, "The only relationship between Alzheimers and aluminum is that they both begin with "al". I agree.

So go forth and buy a respected name brand ANODIZED aluminum cook pot (or cup, you UUL gram weenies). Forget expensive titanium receptacles. Thay ain't necessary. Really. But they sure are cool.

Eric