Is crystal glass safe?

I like crystal glass cups. Can I drink punch with them? Is the lead harmful.
Any links? Thanks.

Wei

Depends how much punch you drink.
It kills faster than leaded chrystal.
The latter is lethal, too, though the effect goes usually
unnoticed the first couple of hundread years.

When the inner surface of your glass turns matt, it tells that lead has been
dissolved.

-lauri

tsj wrote:

I like crystal glass cups. Can I drink punch with them? Is the lead harmful.
Any links? Thanks.

Wei

"tsj" wrote in message ...
I like crystal glass cups. Can I drink punch with them? Is the lead
harmful.
Any links? Thanks.

If you drink from it you have little to worry about. If you keep alcoholic
fluids in crystal vessels for long periods, then there can be some migration
of lead into the fluid. In other words, use decanters for immediate use and
not for long-term storage.

That's assuming that the crystal is lead crystal and not something just
calling itself "crystal".
--
Terry Harper
http://www.terry.harper.btinternet.co.uk/

"Terry Harper" wrote in message
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"tsj" wrote in message
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I like crystal glass cups. Can I drink punch with them? Is the lead
harmful.
Any links? Thanks.

If you drink from it you have little to worry about. If you keep alcoholic
fluids in crystal vessels for long periods, then there can be some
migration
of lead into the fluid. In other words, use decanters for immediate use
and
not for long-term storage.

That's assuming that the crystal is lead crystal and not something just
calling itself "crystal".
--
Terry Harper
http://www.terry.harper.btinternet.co.uk/


I have some 32 year old scotch sealed in lead crystal decanters for over
20 years. You saying I shouldn't drink it, if and when it ever gets opened?

--
JK Sinrod NY
Sinrod Stained Glass
www.sinrodstudios.com
Coney Island Memories
www.sinrodstudios.com/coneymemories

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I have some 32 year old scotch sealed in lead crystal decanters for
over
20 years. You saying I shouldn't drink it, if and when it ever gets
opened?

It might be worth your while having the lead content of the scotch checked,
should you ever open it. That sounds like it's for buying and selling, not
for drinking. Once it's bottled, it doesn't improve any more.
--
Terry Harper
http://www.terry.harper.btinternet.co.uk/

On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 06:18:38 GMT, "jk" wrote:

I have some 32 year old scotch sealed in lead crystal decanters for over
20 years. You saying I shouldn't drink it, if and when it ever gets opened?

It probably wasn't worth drinking in the first place. That's a daft
thing to do to Scotch, so it sounds more like a gimmick than anything
else.

What is it anyway ?
--
Die Gotterspammerung - Junkmail of the Gods

"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
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On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 06:18:38 GMT, "jk" wrote:

I have some 32 year old scotch sealed in lead crystal decanters for
over
20 years. You saying I shouldn't drink it, if and when it ever gets
opened?

It probably wasn't worth drinking in the first place. That's a daft
thing to do to Scotch, so it sounds more like a gimmick than anything
else.

What is it anyway ?
--

Single malt Thistledown 32 year old scotch, sealed in a Bacarrat decanter.

--
JK Sinrod NY
Sinrod Stained Glass
www.sinrodstudios.com
Coney Island Memories
www.sinrodstudios.com/coneymemories

Single malt Thistledown 32 year old scotch, sealed in a Bacarrat
decanter.


Oo Oo Let me redo that last quote, I may have been a little hasty.
I'll even save your life with the lead.
You know the early signs of lead poisoning is insanity and with me they
wouldn't know the difference!!

"jk" wrote in message
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Single malt Thistledown 32 year old scotch, sealed in a Bacarrat
decanter.

That reminds me of a comment made by the boss of a crystal factory, that if
anyone was prepared to buy one of his decanters at full price, he would
happily fill it with the finest scotch.

You paid for the decanter. The scotch came free.
--
Terry Harper
http://www.terry.harper.btinternet.co.uk/

The only tests I know of for alcohol in lead crystal were actually done at
Alfred University to test whether the various methods of treating the edge
produced different results. Lead was taken up when wine was stored in
glasses for 30 days. Storing mildly acidic alcoholic wine in lead crystal
was not recommended.

--
Mike Firth
Hot Glass Bits Furnace Working Website
http://users.ticnet.com/mikefirth/NTBowl.htm
Once again, Empty Bowls for the North Texas food banks will collect money
in February by charging for donated food and bowls at artsy events in Dallas
& Fort Worth. Check out your area if not near here, Empty Bowls was
originally and still is mostly a pottery project. All it takes is a box
stuffed with newspaper and one bowl a week to collect a dozen by then.
$23,000 raised last year.
"jk" wrote in message
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"Terry Harper" wrote in message
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"tsj" wrote in message
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I like crystal glass cups. Can I drink punch with them? Is the lead
harmful.
Any links? Thanks.

If you drink from it you have little to worry about. If you keep
alcoholic
fluids in crystal vessels for long periods, then there can be some
migration
of lead into the fluid. In other words, use decanters for immediate use
and
not for long-term storage.

That's assuming that the crystal is lead crystal and not something just
calling itself "crystal".
--
Terry Harper
http://www.terry.harper.btinternet.co.uk/


I have some 32 year old scotch sealed in lead crystal decanters for
over
20 years. You saying I shouldn't drink it, if and when it ever gets
opened?

--
JK Sinrod NY
Sinrod Stained Glass
www.sinrodstudios.com
Coney Island Memories
www.sinrodstudios.com/coneymemories