On Tuesday, Dec 2, 2003, at 14:14 US/Pacific, Jim Monteith wrote: > With silica gel, you will want to be gentle about cooking > it. It will burn and it may give off stuff you don't want in your > oven. > i don't think so. Unless it was recently absorbing something nasty. silica gel is silica. Glass. Quartz. It doesn't burn... BillW -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads