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Metal Utensils : Gold
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Published 2014
This soft, extremely heavy metal is always alloyed with varying amounts of silver and copper. Pure or not, it is not corroded at all either by air or any of the substances in food. The only danger from gold cutlery comes from dropping it on your foot.
For the use of gold leaf as a food decoration, see gold and silver leaf.
© the Estate of Alan Davidson 1999, 2006, 2014 © in the Editor’s contribution to the second and third editions, Oxford University Press 2006, 2014.