Reynolds Parchment Paper Review

There is one tool that every baker should have in their kitchen to make the experience go so much easier. That one product is Parchment Paper. You can have the best ingredients, the best cooking tools, and the best methods of creating wonderful cookies, but if they end up sticking to your pan or cooling boards, then it doesn't even matter how much time you spent on them. In order to insure that all the time you spent cooking up your masterpieces is saved, you want to make sure that you are cooling your foods on a really nice parchment paper.

Reynolds has a Parchment Paper that they sell right along all of their other great home products. The Reynolds company is best known for their Aluminum Foil, but a close second is their brand of parchment paper. For those unaware of what parchment paper is, it is a nice cooking tool that is put between your hot baked goods, and the surface that they are being placed on to either cook or cool. Some examples are cookie sheets or pans that are going into the oven, which you can place the paper on first, and then the cookies on top of the paper.

By having the paper between the cookies and your cookie sheets, you are first of all going to save on the cleaning of the sheet. Second of all, you are going to prevent the cookies from sticking to the sheet while they are baking. Even if you put a nice film of butter/Pam on the cookie sheets, you could end up with sticking if you aren't using something like parchment paper. Likewise, when you are taking the cookies out of the oven, is important that you put them on something reliable to cool them all down. By placing parchment paper down on a cutting board, it suddenly becomes a "cookie cooling area" that will protect the bottom of the cookies, as well as your surfaces.

A bonus while cooking is that you can prep foods on the parchment sheets, and slide one on to the cookie sheets/pans as soon as you pull one out, thus cutting down the time you are spent in transferring products. You can line cake pans as well, and this will make the layers seem that much more smooth and clean. The Reynolds Parchment Paper can be found on baking isles just down from the ingredients, and it isn't all that expensive of a product. For under $4.00 ($2.99 to $3.99 depending on sales and where you are shopping), you can attain one of the boxes of parchment paper, and improve everything about baking cookies in your house. Not only that, but I think that some of the "grease" that cookies leave can be soaked up by the paper, which in my opinion can make those cookies a little less bad on the mid-section. (Every little bit counts!)

The Reynolds Parchment Paper that I purchase comes in a long rectangular box that holds 30 square feet of the paper measuring 24 feet in length by 15 inches in width. It is the perfect size to slide on to a cookie sheet, and using it will make everything seem so much easier. The parchment paper can stand up to 420 F temperatures, and tears easily on the box teeth (on the side), in order to create the right size piece for your tasks. It is so easy to use, that once you start using it, you are going to wonder why you weren't in the first place. It is an important tool to have in the kitchen, and when you are getting ready to cook up those holiday cookies, I highly recommend that you go with the Reynolds Parchment Paper.