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Default Lasagna in Aluminum Pan

: Omelet wrote:

: > The acid in tomato dissolves the aluminum.
: >
: > Never cook ANYTHING acidic in aluminum.
: >
: > I once made the mistake of covering a tomato based dish with aluminum
: > foil and it ate holes in the foil leaving nasty black bitter spots on
: > top of my food, and visible holes in the foil.

: I've often covered lasagna in foil (when doing the uncooked pasta
: method) and have NEVER seen holes develop, and somehow commercial frozen
: lasagna uses aluminum all the time without problem.

Your lasagna may not have tomato sauce directly in contact with the
foil, or else you didn't look closely enough. I've seen it quite
a few times! Do a simple test - put a piece of foil into a dish
containing tomato sauce overnight. Then put your glasses on and
take a good look.