Stainless steel forks turn dinner green
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clifftaylor
Absolutely retired!
Keep forks, throw spuds out?
Pete MB&D
Pete Maddex, the one and only!
Before you condemn my purchase to harshly they replace our b set, we have a very nice set for special occasions.
And now we have 4 levels of cutlery including the cat food forks
Pete
gintonic
50 shades of grey pussy cats
Before you condemn my purchase to harshly they replace our b set, we have a very nice set for special occasions.
And now we have 4 levels of cutlery including the cat food forks
Pete
what on earth are cat food forks?
blossomchris
I feel better than James Brown
DonQuixote99
pfm Member
My guess is the green was from some surface contaminate or a compound in the metal no longer chemically available on the food-contact surface, the first potatoes having depleted it. Still must regard as suspicious. Back with them.
Mike Reed
pfm Member
cutlery including the cat food forks
Paws for thought here; your cat is further ahead than mine. Purrfect manners indeed !
blossomchris
I feel better than James Brown
davidsrsb
pfm Member
Nickel plating perhaps? I have a lot of "stainless steel" going rusty.
Back when I made equipment for Eurotunnel signalling, we had to use a very expensive grade of stainless steel for the salt water environment
demotivated
pfm Member
Perhaps made near this factory?
https://uk.reuters.com/article/ouko...buttons-found-in-france-idUKTRE49L69320081022
https://uk.reuters.com/article/ouko...buttons-found-in-france-idUKTRE49L69320081022
gintonic
50 shades of grey pussy cats
No forks exclusively for cat food here. All our cutlery goes in the dish washer - we been using the same set of stainless steel cutlery bought from Debenhams for about 15 years, and it's always gone in the dishwasher . It shows no sign of pitting, rusting or discolouration.
JensenHealey
pfm Member
I think ours is much older than that. And still good.
Green indicates to me that you do not have stainless steel!
Green indicates to me that you do not have stainless steel!
Mike Reed
pfm Member
A knife was best when we used tins, but with pouches (only one cat now from the previous stereo pair in matching black) we use spoons. I cannot imagine a fork being as equally effective at getting into those crooks and nannies of cat fodder containers. For the greyer pfm-ers amongst us, I'd say that forks for cat food are non U tensil.
Probably 304L or 316L. These grades are very common in food manufacturing. Normal 304 is reasonably corrosion resistant, but in chlorine heavy environments it's substituted by 304L, which is the same but with molybdenum. "L" stands for "low corrosion". 304 or 304L may be used in food contact but is generally not regarded as best practice. Best practice is 316 or 316L, it is brighter, more corrosion resistant, 316L especially so. 316L is generally used in casework for stainless steel watches, it doesn't develop brown stains if someone wears it in a swimming pool and then leaves it on to get warm and sweaty. 316 is good to use because it can be welded. Some compositions of stainless have great properties but won't weld, so you can't fabricate anything with it, you have to make individual parts. That's fine if you are Swann-Morton making specialist blades for medical use, but useless if not. Conversely 316(/L) makes pretty poor blades.
gintonic
50 shades of grey pussy cats
a teaspoon works quite well with the pouch food in gravy, especially if you want to sneak a little taste. For the ones in jelly a fork is better
Mike Reed
pfm Member
Each to his feline food utensil.
We use a dessert spoon, as accidentally stirring the tea with Whiskers' gravy additive teaspoon does taint things. In fact, t'aint a tea taste, really. Nor does pussycat enjoy Yorkshire Gold as he's a Norfolk cat !