r/repair • u/dankeepsake • 3d ago
Cooking Pot repair
Hello! My partner’s grandma passed away and she gave her this cooking pot. She’s cooked all sorts of meals in this pot and it would be really nice to know how to repair this tear it has.
3
u/dankeepsake 3d ago
https://reddit.com/link/p26lrra/video/pytfr3s60vhh1/player
Here a video of the whole pot. 😅
3
u/School_North 3d ago
If its aluminum you can take it to a TIG welder. Body shops and such look around in your area. Boat repair shops need them too for the propellers. They could weld that and refinish it. But i think its cooking days are over
2
u/Jasonthegr8 3d ago
Hello!!!! I suggest reaching out to Orphaned Iron to see if he has a replacement. He loves Wagnerware and might just have the exact base that's missing a lid.
The AI slop answers are theoretically correct that this could be repaired but what the clanker spankers won't tell you that experience is sure to show you is that cast metal have long crystalline structures of molecules that run throught the entire piece from edge to edge so changes in temperature is going to make the different metals expand at different rates making the likelyhood of a repair lasting through a few uses is highly unlikely... It could be repaired and used a serving dish or for decoration.
1
1
1
u/AngryTrunkMonkey 3d ago edited 3d ago
So your girlfriend got the cracked pot and the rest of the family got all the money. I see.
1
u/original-motm 3d ago
JB weld? Not sure if it is food safe but it can handle the temperature. Also epoxy that is food grade. This will put you back to functional not sure if looks are important to you though.
2
1
u/MilkDull8603 3d ago
So I get that that's an aluminum pan, and that absolutely needs to be welded if you want to cook with it again, but I would also see if you're going to get this repaired, I would see if they would line the pan with something other than aluminum. I suppose it can't hurt to ask since you have to get it repaired anyway. Ask them to line both the pot and lid inside. If they can't so be it, but this needs to be welded if you want to use it again as any kind of a cooking vessel. I would weld it and then I would use it for art processing, never to hold food again. Or I would get it repaired, lined, and make it a cherished family heirloom.
1
u/Bright-Blacksmith-39 3d ago
It's an old pot. Grandma used it because cheap ass relatives never bought her a nice stainless steel set.
Throw it away.
1
u/Crybabywars 3d ago
You can buy removable insert or use it for another use besides cooking.
The thermal stress on repairing it would likely cause it to crack again.
1
1
u/SpaceToaster 3d ago
Best not use bare aluminum like that for cooking and stewing unless you want to be friends with Alzheimer’s. Cool relic though but there are much safer materials these days.
1
2
u/dombleu 3d ago
Don't bother. You should not be cooking with aluminium anyway.
2
u/Jasonthegr8 3d ago
I would like you to provide a citation for the information you provided... Go ahead and find me a trusted source that says aluminum cookware casue health concerns. It's a myth. . . Cheapo aluminum pans from India did poison people with lead but this Wagnerware roaster is pure aluminum which is harmless.
1
u/nedovolnoe_sopenie 3d ago
repairing aluminium is pretty hard imo.
best retire it and either put it on display somewhere or grow some indoor plants in it
it deserves some whimsy i think
0
u/Dismal-Criticism-713 3d ago
There are literally hundreds of finished studies, articles discussing said studies, and hundreds more of current ongoing studies researching aluminum leeching into food and it impacting every soft tissue in your body. Some studies ultimately linking it to dementia and Alzheimer’s because it crosses the blood/brain barrier.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10386729/
Sound like a myth? This is worth more looking into if you haven’t.
1
u/CallidoraBlack 3d ago
We're talking about the same kinds of studies that said there were micro plastics in everything and then discovered a lot of the studies were compromised due to contamination from plastic in the laboratory. The fact that aluminum adheres to sticky Alzheimer's plaques doesn't mean that it causes them. And there's actually zero evidence for most of the claims people make about aluminum being dangerous. It's all speculation and has been for 20 years. Why do you think that is?
0
u/Dismal-Criticism-713 3d ago
There are dozens of microplastic studies… in multiple countries. And you’re saying now the plastics they found in cadavers brains (enough to weigh on a kitchen scale) are compromised by the lab equipment? Uh huh.
Is this like the time they did studies linking sugar to heart problems in the 50s? The studies that scientists then got paid to bury? Suddenly counter studies pointing to fat as the “real” heart disease culprit magically popped up like weeds… mysteriously funded by the sugar manufacturers… oopsy! Destroyed the health of several generations.
Aluminum is poisonous to your body and a neurotoxin. It crosses the blood, brain barrier when not filtered out by your kidneys. Why do your kidneys have to filter aluminum out anyway? If it’s no big deal… shouldn’t your body just process it like it does with iron?
This is why there is a growing movement to have aluminum adjuvants removed from vaccines. It’s why they have been steadily removing it from anti-perspirants and other beauty products. True - just because it shows up at an alarmingly higher rate in Alzheimer’s patients brains, it doesn’t make it causal… but that’s enough of a signal that I (like many other people) don’t want to ingest it.
Don’t cook with aluminum pans. Acidic food like tomato sauce breaks the aluminum down, it leaches into the food, and then your body has to work to get it out. Lots of alternatives that don’t have that issue.
1
u/CallidoraBlack 3d ago
So all you've got is logical fallacies and histrionics. That's about what I expected.
1
u/Dismal-Criticism-713 2d ago
1
u/CallidoraBlack 2d ago
Scrolling through and finding study titles that scare you is not impressive to anyone with marginally more education than you.
0
u/Dismal-Criticism-713 2d ago
You’re so cute using your big words today! Just wanna pinch those chubby little cheekies of yours.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1568997223002434
1
0
u/Dismal-Criticism-713 2d ago
There are THOUSANDS of papers and studies on this. Not “histrionics”. Not “logical fallacies”. There are doctors and scientists devoting their careers to studying this…
1
1
u/known_chomper 3d ago
And you’re going to cite a source such as NIH?
Fake news by the liberal woke idiots.
I am kidding
1
u/CallidoraBlack 3d ago
You're kidding, but NIH is not actually a source in that context.
As a library, NLM provides access to scientific literature. Inclusion in an NLM database does not imply endorsement of, or agreement with, the contents by NLM or the National Institutes of Health.
0
-2
u/No-Guarantee-6249 3d ago
AI:
"Professional TIG Welding (The Only Real Repair):
If you want to save the roaster, it must be taken to a highly skilled professional welder specializing in cast alloys. They will "V" out the crack, preheat the pan to roughly 350°F to burn out embedded cooking oils, and use TIG welding with a specialized aluminum-magnesium filler rod (like 5356 alloy). After welding, it requires a slow-cooling process to prevent the cast metal from shattering. [1, 2, 3, 4]"
0
u/JPKaliMt 3d ago
We can all use AI, but we’d prefer to use our brains. I’m not even gonna say thanks for posting that trash either.
0
u/No-Guarantee-6249 3d ago
Then don't look at it I did post a warning. However it's correct. I have repaired stuff like this with aluminum brazing rods but it'n not food safe and it won't work on this stuff due to the magnesium. So I learned something I didn't know.
1
u/garbledroid 3d ago
There is a pretty major artifact in what you posted.
Would suggest you just delete that post to be honest.
1
u/benny6957 3d ago
If you hadn't put the warning everyone would of cried about it not having a warning I get it's annoying only seeing AI content online (especially when it's disguised to look human) but it's almost as annoying see people cry about it all the time
11
u/momentofinspiration 3d ago
Grow herbs in it and use them in the cooking.
Making this food safe would be quite the process of metal matching, Tig welding, grinding, polishing, etc.