On Dec 21, 6:30*pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:58:15 -0800 (PST), merryb >
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> >On Dec 21, 11:56*am, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:46:35 -0800 (PST), merryb >
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> >> >On Dec 20, 6:49*pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> >> >> On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:18:21 -0800, Mark Thorson >
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> >> >> >> 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.
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> >> >> >Parchment for baking is not wax paper. *Wax would melt.
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> >> >> 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.
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> >> >Now that's frugal!! I always use parchment...
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> >> Buying something one will never use has nothing to do with frugality.
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> >What did you buy that you don't use? You used the butter, correct?
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> 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.

Yes, but you can't make decorating cones out of corn husks or wax
paper unless you are extremely talented!! I find parchment paper
very useful, plus you can use it more than once when lining cookie
sheets.