Aluminium Foil Usage

Aluminium Foil Usage

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Posted 2012-12-09 by Melbournefreelancerfollow
Aluminium foil is shiny, pliable, durable, clean, imprintable, and cheap and comes right after the chef in the kitchen hierarchy of importance. Other than the conventional uses in the kitchen you can use it to:



Sharpen dull scissors by folding into thick pieces and cutting it six or seven times.

Wrap silver cutlery and jewellery to keep them from tarnishing.

Cover an ironing board so the foil will catch the heat and work from the other side to smooth out wrinkles. You may not have to iron the other side.

Cut electromagnetic interference as a Faraday cage or get better reception for your WiFi modem. To see this principle at work, wrap your cell phone in foil and call; there will be no reception.

Grab a handful into a fist-sized ball to scrape off stubborn burnt bits from pans and the BBQ grill.

Scrape rust off anything.

Make cheap Christmas tree ornaments.



Fashion a funnel or piping bag in an emergency when the real McCoy goes missing.

Scare birds off the garden by hanging strips here and there to catch the sun.

Did you know of the push-in bits at the ends of the box that's meant to keep the roll from falling out? You do now.

A sandwich wrapped in aluminium foil can be heated with an iron or on any warm surface.

Fashion a custom lid for a pan with no lid.

Balance an unsteady table by placing folded foil under the bum leg.

Fashion a foil hat to foil mind control attempts from extra-terrestrials or those that cannot be named.



What Not to Do
Though they can be recycled in these ways and others that you could think of, there are things to keep in mind when going crazy with foil.

Aluminium foil is recyclable along with soft drink cans, but aluminium is not eco-friendly material and can lie in the landfill for ages before disintegrating.

It is used extensively for cooking and baking, but when food comes in contact with the foil under heat, aluminium leaches into the food. This is especially true when you wrap your veggies on the BBQ or use it as temporary cookware or bakeware.

Even where foil is used to cover the bird in the oven without touching it, the water drips back on to the food with the leached aluminium. The scary part is that studies link aluminium to Alzheimer's and osteoporosis after prolonged intake.

Even when not heated, aluminium will interact with food acid present in tomato and citrus fruits to cause trouble.

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