Posted on 08/10/2017 7:19:06 AM PDT by ptsal
Even if your idea of cooking falls well short of professional, you still probably use aluminum foil fairly regularly. As a fantastic insulator, this handy item is essential to any kitchen supply cabinet.
Nevertheless, aluminum foil has a whole ton of other uses that most people are tragically unaware of. The next time you buy a roll for your culinary endeavors, grab a second one; as you’ll see, it can make your life much easier!
Here are 15 clever uses for aluminum foil that will make your life outside of the kitchen super simple. You’ll never look at tin foil the same way again!
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The small sheets (12" x 10 3/4") are good for about 75% of my foil needs, they are handy, little waste and less expensive.
I forgot to add my tinfoil hat.
I line the paint roller pan with foil. Makes cleanup a lot easier.
The funnel suggestion from the article isn’t bad either, at least in a pinch.
Write the cost on the box as well as an informal inflation check.
But it will also post a Youtube video of some arbitrary old pop/rock song to the main thread.
Yes there is... Too small is always the wrong size. ;-p
I see a tin foil hat image coming.
It can be used for proton dosimetry if the protons are over 30 MeV. Expose the foil to the proton beam, then put it in a HPGe scintillator and look for Na24 gamma photons. Determine the amount of Na24 that was created at exposure time, and using the cross section, calculate how many protons hit the foil. This method avoids the obvious problems using CaF2:Mn as it’s not sensitive to beam photons.
<>Put the expended foil liner in the recycle bin.
You will earn "water conservation" credits from Jerry Brown.
You will also get a bonus participation certificate from Gavin Newsom.
Remember this trick if you are dry-camping and do not want to spend time and water cleaning up the dishes.
No pan frozen pizza:
cut out the inside of a piece of foil so it’s an annulus covering the edges that drip.
IE: cut a hole in foil so the inside of the pizza isn’t still soggy when the edge is done, and there aren’t drips on your oven.
Weird Al in “Foil” dons the definitive tinfoil hat.
Plaster caster alternative?!
I was going to paste the same thing. Back in my college days we used foil to unscramble certain cable channels that were you had to “pay extra” for. Educational purposes only.
Aluminum bubble wrap is used for insulation.. We hang it on the inside of the sliding glass doors in summer.
Make a grilled cheese sandwich w/o a pan
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Grilled-Cheese-Sandwich-With-an-Iron/
Aluminum foil hacks to simplify your life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCgkwwSsJs4
Aluminum foil? What’s that? Bed Rock Kroger doesn’t have the stuff.
It does like a good way to make a Bed Rock Dino Burger.
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