"Thanks to the negative publicity surrounding aluminium cookware, many have switched to using stainless steel cookware, thinking that this is a better alternative but, and this might well surprise you, in the majority of cases, and unless advertised to the contrary, "stainless steel" is nothing other than a "user-friendly" name for nickel - and nickel, which is also used as a base for dental crowns and bridges, is not only a confirmed carcinogen, but is also suspected of causing many other health problems."