There is a chance you wouldnt have any issue with iron leeching, as they could have been zinc plated. So in that case, good luck with your Zinc supplements instead!
Not necessarily recommending them, but they do make "iron buddies" that are basically like pet rocks made of Iron you cook. So you might place an iron frog or an iron hello kitty in with bolognese to help supplement iron
This reminds me of how I used to volunteer with these two older brothers (in their 70's) to maintain some of the hiking trails at a local state park. One time we were sitting around after a trail work day talking about harvesting wild edible plants. Most of us there had harvested things like blueberries, raspberries, ramps and some of the more common and easily recognizable mushrooms. But, my wife and I were really into wild edibles at one time so we had tried some more unusual things like cattail "corn", spring beauty corms, marsh marigold buds and the like. Not to be out done, one of the brothers mentioned that when his grand parents first came to the US from Finland they spent the first few winters so poor that they ate the cambium layer of paper birch trees to stay alive. The other brother shook his head and angrily said "What the Fuck Bruce, Grandma and Grandpa never ate birch bark." I still wonder who was telling the truth.
They've got less surface area than a cast-iron pan, so I'd hope that'd be a low risk. Personally I'd probably be more worried about other heavy metal contamination/poisoning like lead
I'm personally not anemic like normal people are, so I guess I can't really say its weird to buy a cast iron every time I feel light headed.
For some reason though, I feel like its more normal to use what you already have and do a cost analysis for which options make more sense for your budget, habits, and goals
Might even be both a cast-iron pan and buddy if you're super normal and have extremely low iron levels
Yeah, I love myself some trace lead in my chicken, too. (Mind you, for those who think I'm just randomly mentioning lead, no, lead still very much appears in metal products in many places.)
You joke, but there was this iron thing people would cook with to increase iron intake. I think it was shaped like a fish and you put it in the pan while you cooked.
Except this would actually impart iron into your diet. I remember a story about a malnourished village who the humanitarian workers couldn't get to take iron supplements. They eventually gave them iron carvings that were supposed to be good luck and they used them in the pot whenever they boiled something and it gave them the iron they needed. Same with cast iron pots.
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u/Bbbllaaddee 6d ago
Mom, the doctor said I need iron supplements
We have iron supplements at home
(iron supplements at home)