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Household tinfoil/aluminum foil, many people use it wrong. The correct usage is as follows

2022-04-01

Tin foil is often used when going to barbecue or in the home oven, that is, it is used to wrap food for barbecue, cooking and baking. Tin foil can be used to make many delicious foods, such as grilled fish, grilled ribs, grilled eggplant, enoki mushroom and various seafood, etc.

Tin has only a thin layer, usually less than 0.2mm thick, but it has strong heat conductivity and high temperature resistance. When it is used to wrap food, it can not only be heated quickly, prevent scorching, be heated evenly and easily lock the soup, and keep fresh and tender taste, but also avoid oil stains on the oven.

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Every time you wrap food in tinfoil, you will face a super problem. How to tell the front from the back? Dumb facing out or light facing out?

Online rumors about tinfoil-it is said that using this kind of thing will lead to Alzheimer's disease and kidney failure. Can this tinfoil still be used?

However, tinfoil is not tin, so what is tinfoil?

In baking, many materials and props are often used to assist, among which tin foil is a commonly used one. In the process of barbecue, tinfoil is often used.

Tin paper, also called aluminum foil paper, is mainly used for cooking in the kitchen, holding food, or roasting and wrapping food when roasting.

Now all the tinfoil bought in supermarkets is aluminum foil, which is made of aluminum and does not contain tin. Tin is not tin but aluminum.

Main components of tin: aluminum content is 96.91%, and other components include oxygen, silicon, iron, copper, etc.

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Will aluminum foil affect people's health?

The answer is no. Now, in the process of making aluminum foil paper, a coating will be added to the paper surface to prevent the direct leakage of aluminum, and no one uses aluminum foil for cooking every day, so there is no need to worry about excessive aluminum intake when using aluminum foil.

Specific uses of tin:

It has been widely used in food processing for many years, such as cans, soft drinks packaging, potato chip packaging lining, golden candy paper, etc.

1. When baking cakes, cookies or bread, in order to prevent the surface from being over-colored, you can cover the food with tin foil, with the photosensitive surface facing up.

After being covered with tin foil, there is no fear that the bread or cookies will be too dark in color, so that the heat radiation on the surface of the cake will be uniform, the cracking phenomenon on the surface will be reduced, and at the same time, the food will be baked.

2. Friends who often roast meat can use it to wrap meat for roasting, so that the roasted meat is fresh and tender, and the water content is sufficient.

3. You can also wrap the movable bottom mold into a solid bottom mold with tin foil, so that you can bake in water bath without buying a solid bottom mold.

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Correct use of tin:

1. One side of tin foil is bright and the other side is matte. Because the matte surface reflects less light and absorbs more heat outward, you should wrap the food with the matte surface to touch the food, while the bright surface is exposed.

If you accidentally use it backwards, the bright side touches the food, which may cause the food to stick to the tin foil.

2. Try to avoid contact with acidic and alkaline seasonings or foods.

For example: vinegar, lemon, baking soda, etc., so as to avoid chemical reaction and generate aluminum salt; Because this aluminum salt can be absorbed by human body.

3. It's best to rinse it with clear water before use, so as to avoid eating small scraps from the processing process on the tin foil into your stomach.

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