Cooking For Engineers

[hermes]

Greetings from Cambodia where I am working. I am cooking secretly in my hotel room because vegetarian food is so unavailable here and hygiene in restaurants so poor. This is not a epicurian's delight of a country!

I purchased a steel or aluminum Chinese-made electric wok-like pot. Seemed like a good idea at the time since it is divided into two sections so I could cook grains in one and veg in the other, for example. Turns out it was made imperfectly and pouring water in one side - well, it seeps through unseen gaps in the divider.

I'm thinking of having a soldering man make the divider solid so I can use its ful potential. Or maybe weld it? I doubt it's possible - it's very thin.

Would either be a health risk?

[Guest]

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/5056.html

The link above advises against using any solder with a 0.2% + lead content. Old-fashioned solder was 50% (?). Tin and antimony blends would be ideal. Problem is Cambodia, like Thailand 20 years ago, is that this is a land of fraud in labelling. paints are totaly bogus brands, for example. Most likely a corner electrical shop won't know or care about health risks.

I'll keep you posted what I discover.