Kitchen Tools

Preparing your kitchen for healthy foods requires proper
tools. To get you started, we have compiled a list of
indispensable utensils, appliances, and paraphernalia that
will make Paleo preparation and cooking a breeze.
However, just as you purged your kitchen of food items, you
must also eliminate certain non-Paleo utensils.

First, get rid of all pots, pans, vessels, and cookie sheets
that have an aluminum surface. If aluminum touches the
food during cooking, preparation, or dining, pitch these
utensils. When you cook in aluminum pots or pans, small
amounts of aluminum leach into your food and eventually
find their way into your body, which is not a good thing.
Although we don’t completely understand how aluminum
adversely affects human health and well-being, a number of
studies suggest that it may impair the intestinal barrier,
thereby promoting chronic low-level inflammation.
Aluminum also seems to preferentially bind to nerve tissue
and the brain. Whether it impairs cognition or nerve function
is still unclear. We recommend that you replace all of your
aluminum pots, pans, and cooking vessels with either