View Single Post
  #20 (permalink)   Report Post  
Wayne Boatwright
 
Posts: n/a
Default good baking sheets (ISO)

"Vox Humana" > wrote in
:

>
> "Dee Randall" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Last night I was watching a Julia Child show (I think recorded from
>> the

> day
>> before) where a woman baker was baking/demonstrating some kind of
>> tart/bread/pie with loads and loads of butter in it.
>>
>> As she was putting it in the oven on a baking sheet, Julia asked her
>> if

> she
>> would put it on parchment paper and the baker said, NO! - that the

> parchment
>> paper would actually draw the butter out of the item and one would
>> find loads of butter on the bottom of the parchment paper and that is
>> not what she wanted.
>>
>> Even though I've seen parchment paper loaded with butter after
>> baking,

> I've
>> not *heard* this before, that parchment paper actually draws out the
>> butter.
>>
>> Dee

>
> Don't believe everything you see on TV. The food network is
> particularly notorious for cavalierly dispensing false information.
> I'm sure most of the misinformation is passed along innocently and
> there is no mechanism for discussion that would allow for a
> correction. One has to wonder just how the parchment would draw the
> butter out of an item. I would speculate that you simply see the
> butter easier on the parchment than you would on a baking sheet. That
> might lead to a conclusion that here was a cause and effect
> relationship where none existed.
>
>


Yes, what you said, Vox. Parchment is "greaseproof" and therefore repels
fats. It makes it all the more obvious to the eye when the butter or
other fats "pool" on the surface.

Wayne