My backpacking oven is a coffee can.  I've used it for years.  It works.  It does not poison me.  mcneely

---- David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
> At 09:04 PM 1/7/2012, Scott Daniel  - Turbovans wrote:
> >in case anyone doesn't know..
> >galvanized metal..
> >when heated enough emits a deadly poison.
>
> Zinc fumes aren't good for you, but they're hardly deadly.  Here's a
> good writeup on "brass-founder's ague."
> http://phr.emrystick.com/patient-education.aspx?medical-term=metal-fume-fever
>
> Yours,
> David

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David McNeely