On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:58:15 -0800 (PST), merryb >
wrote:

>On Dec 21, 11:56*am, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:46:35 -0800 (PST), merryb >
>> wrote:

>> >On Dec 20, 6:49*pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
>> >> On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:18:21 -0800, Mark Thorson >
>> >> wrote:
>>
>> >> >Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>
>> >> >> Normal brained people who want non reactive sheet pans use whatever
>> >> >> fercocktah metal pans they happen to have and they buy a box of
>> >> >> parchment/wax paper.
>>
>> >> >Parchment for baking is not wax paper. *Wax would melt.
>>
>> >> Your brain is melted, Thorazine... but that should be no surprise.
>> >> One can certainly bake on waxed paper, been for more then 50 years, in
>> >> fact I've never bought parchment paper for cooking... at one time I
>> >> actually used to save the parchment paper from sticks of butter in my
>> >> freezer but never found a use for them so into the trash they went.
>> >> Ordinary waxed paper works very well for baking.
>>
>> >Now that's frugal!! I always use parchment...
>>
>> Buying something one will never use has nothing to do with frugality.
>
>What did you buy that you don't use? You used the butter, correct?

I'm talking about not buying parchment paper because I don't use it. I
don't buy butter for the wrappings... in fact most of the butter I buy
is wrapped in foil. I started saving the parchment paper from butter
because at that time cooking shows were in their infancy and they
pushed a lot of parchment paper. I never saw any use for parchment
paper for the things I cooked that waxed paper didn't do better.
Cooking shows pushed a lot of useless items, they still do. Nowadays
when I cook something that needs to be wrapped in a package I use the
old fashioned tried and true that every culture has used since long
before paper was invented; plant leaves... banana, ti, grape, cabbage,
lettuce, etc. and there is nothing one can cook in parchment paper
that can't be done better in corn husks.