Cooking foil

Also, if yours using foil then remember to change it each time or the cooking fats can catch fire.

Not too worried at my age. ?

I use foil in the bottom of grill pans, but you can also buy oven liners, such as this one sold at Lakeland.

www.lakeland.co.uk/3318/Magic-Non-Stick-Oven-Liner-Standard-50-x-50cm

The listed item costs over a tenner, but I buy mine at Home Bargains, and they cost much less than that!

They're really useful, and easy to keep clean.

Busters not blisters

I always do it makes cleaning much easier however I recently discovered what are called fat blisters strange name but they are what I can only describe as thicker quilted like sheets of foil these are much easier to change and dispose off than the foil that often sticks to the bottom of the grill pan

Thank you ladies, I just knew you`d come up trumps!

I use it on my grill have done for yonks.

Just ordered the Lakeland fridge magnet from Amazon. No Lakeland nearby so thanks for the tip.

It's safe to use aluminium foil at the bottom of a grill pan, to save washing up, as long as the food does not touch it. We have long been recommended to avoid using aluminium cooking pans, as aluminium toxicity is thought to be one of the many, many contributory causes of dementia. And recently I read in the press that that now includes aluminium foil - all those take-away and frozen foods that are contained in aluminium containers.

I also use the non-stick oven liner at the bottom of my oven, but oven manufacturers recommend that if your oven is heated from below, the oven can be damaged - they never say how, and presume that would go for aluminium also. It is fine in most ovens.

"Green" considerations are another factor as aluminium may be recyled, if clean. Furthermore its use should be avoided as much as possible as aluminium mining is an environmentally damaging process.

Cooking food directly on non-stick oven liner concerns me, as I assume it is a plastic, and perhaps there is a possibility of plastics migrating into the food with heat. I guess the jury is still out on this.

www.onlineconversion.com/cooking_gasmark.htm
here's one table that has the conversions, some cookery books have them too.

Like justwokeup, I've got one of those Lakeland fridge magnets and I use it a lot - inexpensive and easy (that's the magnet, not me I hasten to add)

callgirl I use Lakeland Magic non-stick oven liner. You cut it to size and can line grill pans and baking trays with it too. Just take it out and wash off any burnt-on food. It will last at least five years and saves using aluminium foil.

I think it's safe - so long as you remember to use ALUMINIUM foil and not the silver WRAPPING foil (which will catch alight), this usually cheaper than cooking foil and feels and sounds different!

My fridge is "integral" so useless for fridge magnets !

There's a nice inexpensive metal fridge magnet in Lakeland which is a conversion chart. I find mine really useful, use it all the time. www.lakeland.co.uk/5361/Fridge-Magnet-Imperial-and-Metric-Measurement-Conversion-Chart?src=gfeed&s_kwcid=AL!49!3!{creative!e!{placement}!o!{adwords_producttargetid}!&ef_id=WSmLGwAABOQG1QFk:20170621093559:s}
This link looks weird but I think it works!

I cover the floor of my cooker with foil but I 'weigh it down' with another piece of foil over a flat baking tray for safety, e.g the foil is not able to cover the fan .

Usually find one in a general cookery book

Yes conversion charts available online or look at a recipe book and make one of your own from oven temps given in recipes .

You could Google it Callgirl. I have one sellotape inside a cupboard door but have absolutely no idea where I got it.

Well, it was OK, I have wondered whether to try it over the years, but always been a bit wary.
Now, can anybody help me with this? My new gas oven is marked with temperatures, as on an electric oven, but I`m used to Gas mark whatever, is there a conversion chart anywhere?

I've beeen doing it for fifty, but I did once have the foil catch light, so I am careful about the size of the piece I use now.

And me - well 46 and a half.

Been doing it for 48 years, we're still here .

Yes, it is safe. I do it all the time to save washing the grill pan every two minutes BUT make sure that the corners of the aluminium foil don't stick up far enough to touch an electric element, or they will catch fire! I always turn down the corners and edges to below the top of the grill pan sides.

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