stumping question!

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Hi all!

 

My grandma sent me a real stumper a couple days ago, and I've been really

trying to think of an answer to it, but I'm totally stuck! See whatcha

think, and if anybody knows what happened, please tell!

 

" Story - I found a receipe for Veggie burgers made with lentils. It's

a large batch, but I made the whole batch and decided to freeze them

for our trailer. I got a dozen nice burgers. They had lentils,

grated carrots, mushrooms chopped, black olives chopped, onion

chopped, egg whites unbeaten, salt and pepper and that's about it. It

said to bake them on a cookie sheet, 40 minutes on one side and 20 on

the other at a 350 oven. Simple recipe. When I removed them from the

pan they looked wonderful, but the pan had turned black on both

sides. It wasn't a burned black, but a change in the color of the

metal (aluminum pan). So I wrapped my burgers in plastic wrap and

froze them. Then I tried to clean up my pan. It would not clean up,

the black change in color of the metal was permanent. I thought maybe

bleach would bring the shine back to the pan, but it pitted the

metal. With that experience, which we didn't understand why it

happened with such an ordinary recipe, the pan was tossed into the

garbage and the burgers tossed into the swamp. We were afraid to eat

them. Any ideas as to what happened? "

 

Weird! Was it just a bad quality pan, you think? or is there some other

logical explanation for this?? I'd never heard of such a thing! The only

times our pans turn black is when I've accidentally gone and greased them

and baked cookies on them (the marg leaves a nice black residue...)!

 

~Emmy~

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