• yA3xAKQMbq@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Nah. Parchment paper goes into the oven, that’s another name for baking sheets. Waxed paper is used to wrap your sandwich. If you put waxed paper in the oven – well, see picture above.

    FYI, some baking paper contains PFAS, the group of chemicals that also PTFE (aka Teflon) belongs to, which is… not good.

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      11 months ago

      Been while since I bought waxed paper, is it cheaper than parchment paper? I’m assuming it must be or why wouldn’t you just use parchment paper instead?

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        11 months ago

        Parchment is better for heat, wax paper is better with sticky stuff. My mom uses it to roll cookie dough into cylinders. Then she can refrigerate them and unroll it cleanly to cut into discs so she doesn’t have to form dough balls by hand. If you need a permanently-non-stick, moldable surface, wax paper is pretty good.

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        11 months ago

        Wax and parchment paper have VERY similar branding in the US, to the point where it’s easy to confuse the two

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        11 months ago

        Wax paper can start on fire if you put it in the oven, parchment paper does not. Hence, the OP.