On Sat, 16 May 2009 16:38:30 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

Then go buy a stainless bowl and fill it half full of water.
See how long it takes to develop its first pin hole.
A matter of weeks or less, quite likely.

Which was all I was debating. Not the fact that stainless will
corrode....

I had a stainless bowl develop a pinhole in ordinary use.

Casady