Comments on: Why to Line Baking Pans with Foil or Parchment Paper

By: Tracy Koppel

Tracy Koppel — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 14:49:38 +0000

Food cooked in aluminum foil has way more aluminum in it than food cooked other ways. Aluminum is really bad for the body. Don’t encourage people to cook food in aluminum foil.

By: Sandra duncan

Sandra duncan — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 16:41:37 +0000

In reply to Pete Mathis.

Thank you for this tip

By: Dorothy Kern

Dorothy Kern — Mon, 10 May 2021 16:58:02 +0000

In reply to Patsy W Martin.

I would definitely not recommend wax paper. I’ve accidentally done that and it’s almost caught fire in my oven.

By: Faith L Follmer

Faith L Follmer — Fri, 07 May 2021 23:16:09 +0000

Thanks for the tip to crumble parchment paper. I like parchment paper but I always have trouble getting it in the corners of the pans.

By: Patsy W Martin

Patsy W Martin — Fri, 07 May 2021 06:40:17 +0000

You can line cake pans with wax paper. My mom did when I was small and it never caused a problem. She would set the pan on top of the paper and trace the pan bottom and cut it out. Worked Great.

By: Pete Mathis

Pete Mathis — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 07:02:01 +0000

It is SO MUCH EASIER to turn the pan upside down and shape the foil over it first. Then flip your pan and drop the preformed foil into it. Use fingertips (watch those nails!) to nail down inside corners. Much easier to line up edge of foil to rim of pan so it isn’t crooked as in your last photo.

By: Shirley Willard

Shirley Willard — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 22:16:30 +0000

I line my pans with foil when I’m baking bars using the overhang so cutting them into bars is easy.
When I bake cookies I have a raised pattern on my aluminum pans that I’ve used for years without any lining at all and those pans still look like new. I’ve baked every kind of cookie known to man or beast as I always like something sweet after dinner.
When I bake cakes I have these black sheets that I’ve cut into rounds and they just peel off.
I never use parchment as it curls and I don’t like fighting it. When in doubt I use foil.

By: Bec

Bec — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:34:08 +0000

Here’s an easy way to get parchment paper to fit closely into a pan: cut/tear the size you want, crumple the sheet of parchment up into a ball, then smooth it back out and shape it into the baking dish. That takes a little of the ‘starch’ out of it and makes it pliable, so you can fit it down into corners just as you would with foil. Handy!