25 thoughts on “Matt Over At Bacon Time!! Asks A Very Pertinent Question”
I’ll have to buy some to wash some…
not yet.. I do save my bacon grease though. we use more plastic wrap here.
shop the sales. and try to make the most of trips to town. every time we go down
I top off the tank before coming back home.
the local store gives vets 10% off store brands on Thursdays. so we shop then.
it does add up ! last trip we saved 90 some bucks. and after you get 400 points
on your shopper card, you can get a free ham or turkey. good deal.
and the baked goods they make are to die for too.
I really love those butter rum muffins they make.
No, we only use it to like baking pans and it usually gets baked on so only a chisel will remove it from the pan.
I can’t spell any more… like=line
Not washing. Did buy a bunch to stock up while it was reasonably priced.
I use it like anon above. AL foil is a disposable baking pan. Use it, toss it. I keep two rolls in reserve. That’s up one roll since all of the Covid shortage shit. There was a point in time after the toilet paper fiasco when there was none to be had. That was a couple years ago.
I can’t remember when I didn’t wash at least once.
Like the meme where Grandma reused her’s.
We recently got a giant roll of industrial steel foil from Costco.
Not washing it, but the wife reuses it when in good enough shape. Good for protection from the beams of rays they hit us with. I like the WWII German paratrooper style, uses less foil and they’re reusable.
Tree Mike
Yeah, I have been for several years. At the very least, I wrap my taps with it when I have to store them together.
Seems to me that over the past year, aluminum foil is even thinner. (?) Even the stuff labeled heavy duty. I cry BS!
The cheap stuff is really thin. The name brand/heavy duty is much sturdier.
I agree Texson. Both the regular and heavy duty are noticeably less thick than they used to be. I stopped using the regular because it tears too easily. I buy the store brand because it costs about 2/3 what Reynolds is priced.
It’s advisable to wash your tinfoil, since the accumulation of skin cells, oil, and hair, over time, is bad for your scalp.
My roll of foil has got to be at least 5 years old. I just don’t find much use for it.
Mayo you win the innerwebz of the day with that comment.
While I haven’t had to for some time, we used to do this a LOT as kids – our parents were a product of the Depression and it was an ingrained habit. I *do* recycle aluminum a lot (wash it off, etc) as well as other metals and plastics… again, habit.
Wait until we have to dry clothes on a clothesline or a dryer rack by the fireplace… again…
I’m on the not washing yet side. Like Texson said, the foil seems to be getting thinner and most of the time it gets enough cooked stuff onto it that it rips apart when you try to get food off it.
I remember washing it as a kid, and depression-raised mom doing it until she couldn’t anymore.
Remember that washing it costs money, too. Soap costs and water costs even if you think your time doesn’t cost.
Considering what water can do for you, it’s an extremely cheap commodity.
I’m just washing and saving the tin foil for future use if it becomes scarce in the near future.
Me being me, I have a pretty good system for washing it so I use minimum water.
My time? Pretty worthless if no one is paying me !!!
I was reading a story in the Financial Times about this kid that owned his first home at the age of 22. He was ultra cheap, ultra minimalist, rode a bike to work, re-used ziplok sammich bags – he would have recycled his own pooh if it would save him a nickel.
And he got absolutely dogpiled in the comments as people laughed at him. Makes ya wonder sometimes, if we don’t deserve what’s coming…
I don’t think I’ve wasted too much money over my lifetime, but certainly would have done things differently if I had known better/
I crumple aluminum foil and install in soda cans, crushed for recycling. Bottle caps, liquor caps (whenever…), all get recycled.
I haven’t washed aluminum foil, but I have washed ziplock bags. Too expensive to use once then throw away.
Unless there’s grease or some other residue in the Ziploc bag, we reuse them at least once. Even then, they can be washed if necessary.
Can’t recall how many years I had a bread loaf wrapper for my lunch bag, and I *had* to bring it back from school, too!
Definitely to costly to use and toss.
Lots of uses even if it’s not for food.
Who can afford to buy aluminum foil in the first place.
I’ll have to buy some to wash some…
not yet.. I do save my bacon grease though. we use more plastic wrap here.
shop the sales. and try to make the most of trips to town. every time we go down
I top off the tank before coming back home.
the local store gives vets 10% off store brands on Thursdays. so we shop then.
it does add up ! last trip we saved 90 some bucks. and after you get 400 points
on your shopper card, you can get a free ham or turkey. good deal.
and the baked goods they make are to die for too.
I really love those butter rum muffins they make.
No, we only use it to like baking pans and it usually gets baked on so only a chisel will remove it from the pan.
I can’t spell any more… like=line
Not washing. Did buy a bunch to stock up while it was reasonably priced.
I use it like anon above. AL foil is a disposable baking pan. Use it, toss it. I keep two rolls in reserve. That’s up one roll since all of the Covid shortage shit. There was a point in time after the toilet paper fiasco when there was none to be had. That was a couple years ago.
I can’t remember when I didn’t wash at least once.
Like the meme where Grandma reused her’s.
We recently got a giant roll of industrial steel foil from Costco.
Not washing it, but the wife reuses it when in good enough shape. Good for protection from the beams of rays they hit us with. I like the WWII German paratrooper style, uses less foil and they’re reusable.
Tree Mike
Yeah, I have been for several years. At the very least, I wrap my taps with it when I have to store them together.
Seems to me that over the past year, aluminum foil is even thinner. (?) Even the stuff labeled heavy duty. I cry BS!
The cheap stuff is really thin. The name brand/heavy duty is much sturdier.
I agree Texson. Both the regular and heavy duty are noticeably less thick than they used to be. I stopped using the regular because it tears too easily. I buy the store brand because it costs about 2/3 what Reynolds is priced.
It’s advisable to wash your tinfoil, since the accumulation of skin cells, oil, and hair, over time, is bad for your scalp.
My roll of foil has got to be at least 5 years old. I just don’t find much use for it.
Mayo you win the innerwebz of the day with that comment.
While I haven’t had to for some time, we used to do this a LOT as kids – our parents were a product of the Depression and it was an ingrained habit. I *do* recycle aluminum a lot (wash it off, etc) as well as other metals and plastics… again, habit.
Wait until we have to dry clothes on a clothesline or a dryer rack by the fireplace… again…
I’m on the not washing yet side. Like Texson said, the foil seems to be getting thinner and most of the time it gets enough cooked stuff onto it that it rips apart when you try to get food off it.
I remember washing it as a kid, and depression-raised mom doing it until she couldn’t anymore.
Remember that washing it costs money, too. Soap costs and water costs even if you think your time doesn’t cost.
Considering what water can do for you, it’s an extremely cheap commodity.
I’m just washing and saving the tin foil for future use if it becomes scarce in the near future.
Me being me, I have a pretty good system for washing it so I use minimum water.
My time? Pretty worthless if no one is paying me !!!
I was reading a story in the Financial Times about this kid that owned his first home at the age of 22. He was ultra cheap, ultra minimalist, rode a bike to work, re-used ziplok sammich bags – he would have recycled his own pooh if it would save him a nickel.
And he got absolutely dogpiled in the comments as people laughed at him. Makes ya wonder sometimes, if we don’t deserve what’s coming…
I don’t think I’ve wasted too much money over my lifetime, but certainly would have done things differently if I had known better/
I crumple aluminum foil and install in soda cans, crushed for recycling. Bottle caps, liquor caps (whenever…), all get recycled.
I haven’t washed aluminum foil, but I have washed ziplock bags. Too expensive to use once then throw away.
Unless there’s grease or some other residue in the Ziploc bag, we reuse them at least once. Even then, they can be washed if necessary.
Can’t recall how many years I had a bread loaf wrapper for my lunch bag, and I *had* to bring it back from school, too!
Definitely to costly to use and toss.
Lots of uses even if it’s not for food.
Who can afford to buy aluminum foil in the first place.