Posted on 08/10/2017 7:19:06 AM PDT by ptsal
Even if your idea of cooking falls well short of professional, you still probably use aluminum foil fairly regularly. As a fantastic insulator, this handy item is essential to any kitchen supply cabinet.
Nevertheless, aluminum foil has a whole ton of other uses that most people are tragically unaware of. The next time you buy a roll for your culinary endeavors, grab a second one; as you’ll see, it can make your life much easier!
Here are 15 clever uses for aluminum foil that will make your life outside of the kitchen super simple. You’ll never look at tin foil the same way again!
Need a baking pan that is just the "right" size?
Invert a pan or object with the "right" size and press multiple layers of foil around the object.
After crimping the edges, remove the hand-moulded object and it is ready for baking that "right-sized" cake.
Again, what is your suggestion?
Headgear for paranoics.
It has been rumored that Blackberries surrounded in foil will prevent the AWAN brothers from reading the contents of the emails.
a fantastic insulator
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Have used foil for roller paint pan. Make life easy.
I don’t refer to things made of conductive metals as a “fantastic insulator”.
And there is no such thing as a “wrong sized cake” ;-)
Form foil in the shape of an X and place next to your screen. It will move posts like this to General/Chat :)
I always get those big boxes of foil at Sams, or Costco. It lasts for years and is that good heavy duty foil.
Don’t forget to write the date on the box. When you run out and throw the box away it’s cheap amusement to see when you opened with the box, a poor boy’s time capsule.
My suggestion is for the author to learn the correct use of the word “hack”.
Back in the day, we used foil and tv wire to get free cable. You sometimes needed two tvs so one could pick up the sound while the other got you a fuzzy picture.
5 minutes that I’ll never get back
Insulator?
Thailand?
Need a trivet in the bottom of a black iron dutch oven? Twist a foil sheet into a wrinkled "rope" that can lift the pan off the bottom of the dutch oven.
The crunch foil rope also works to keep kabob skewers above the BBQ grill grate.
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“a fantastic insulator”
Aluminum is a fantastic conductor of heat and electricity.
Crush foil into a ball and use it to clean your grill. Cuts right through the baked on grease.
Ideal use of foil.
Thanks.
I melt butter on my serving plate in the microwave, then coat one side of bread slices, and place the bread slices on a precut sheet of foil under the broiler in the oven to get buttered toast. Then after It’s done, I just place it on the serving platter. There’s only the single dish to clean up.
I also use precut sheets of foil as the “pan” to bake canned biscuits.
Because foil doesn’t absorb heat, I don’t even need a potholder to remove the end product from the oven.
thermal maybe - electrical not so much
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