A few weeks ago on Facebook, my sister-in-law asked me a deceptively complex question:
“If you had to choose between plastic wrap, foil or parchment – which would you give up first?”
While I’d miss plastic wrap (who doesn’t like being able to see their food?) and find it inconvenient to be without parchment paper (especially when baking), I’d give them both up long before foil.
After all, foil can:
• Cover food to seal in freshness
• Be used to prevent food from sticking to cooking surfaces
• Be shaped into foil swans to hold leftovers that you want to send home with your dinner party guests (I used to love making those swans when I was a chef)
• Be used to make cooking packets for fish and other delicate foods that people often cook in parchment pouches.
What about you? Which would you give up last?
