Help - Waxed Paper - What Is It Good For?

Wow, I haven't even thought of waxed paper in years. Yes, it was something my mother and grandmother always had in their kitchens. No, I don't have any in my kitchen at present because I have no use for it.

It is healthier in your microwave to cover something than plastic wrap is. It is useful under messy sticky crafts. You can sift flour onto it, and pour it in to something else. If your child or grandchild wants to make a slide more slippery, they can go rub waxed paper on it. You are supposed to rub a warm iron on it to make it glide more smoothly (who irons? not me!) In our mother's and grandmother's time they would wrap the lunch time sandwiches in it. Now we have baggies and Tupperware or Glad Ware. I am going to conjecture that it is a more environmentally friendly product that most of the plastic we use.

I use waxed paper for baked cookies and cakes to cool upon. a little piece in the lard/shortening to use when spreading onto a baking sheet or cake pan wrap up sandwiches or pieces of cake in for packed lunches you can also line your baking pans with a sheet of waxed paper and cook on it, helps keep the mess and muss down. If you micro cook wax paper is good to keep the splatters from covering the inside of the microoven It is a great assistant for certain craft projects - like those glitter glue stars and snowflakes or Ironing tree leaves between the sheets in order to preserve them (did you do this as a kid? we loved it!) OR you could always take a piece of it and fold it over a man's pocket comb and humm away on your new Kazoo! :)

I have several uses for waxed paper. When I make cookies, after cooling, I line my containers with the waxed paper. It helps to keep them fresh and seals the container tighter. I also use it when I iron something very delicate to keep from burning the fabric. I just place a piece of waxed paper over the garment, and the iron just glides right over the piece I'm ironing. Works like a charm. When I was growing up, my Mom would wrap my sandwich in waxed paper to keep it fresh. Of course that was before Handi Wrap or sandwich bags. Donna getcleangetrich.com 601-845-2634

I have used it when kneading dough. Intead of flouring the tables surface. Also good for putting in the bottom of my shallow bake pan. Saves on flour. Saves on clean up. Good for certain childrens craft projects as well.

I think I had the same container of waxed paper for about 10 years and finally gave it up. Some recipes call for it like cookies, but I never think of using it. I'll be curious to see what other people say on this one!

I do a lot of the cooking in our household. I could not cook my superior excellent tasting better than average cheeseburgers without waxpaper. Here's how. Cook your cheeseburgers in the usual way until the meat is just right. Then put on the cheese and place a large piece of waxpaper over the pan such that it covers everything. The waxpaper reflects the heat back into the pan quickly melting the cheese. This keeps the meat from becoming overcooked and the cheese from becoming greasy. Enjoy your cheesey-burgers!

I never use it but my mom uses it when making lots of cookies and puts it between layers to store and/or freeze so they don't stick together.

My mom used waxed paper all the time, to wrap my dad's lunch's(sandwich's etc.) She used it in some baking. Before plastic wrap, waxed paper was all there was,LOL.

Gee,now that you mention it I dont use my wax paper that often either. I too use it for no-bake cookies as well as lining layer cake pans. I also help the kids iron fall leaves between sheets of it. I bet people used a lot more wax paper before baggies were invented.

My Mom always had waxed paper in the kitchen, and I remember her using it to polish the stove lids on the big iron wood stove. This woodstove heated the kitchen and cooked the food. Also there was a large reservoir on the end of the stove, which held hot water. We often had pancakes for breakfast and mom would pour the batter directly onto the big shiny stove lids. The pancakes cooked quickly on the hot lids and she'd flip them once and then onto our plates where they would be smothered in Maple Syrup and eaten by us hungry kids.

I've always used wax paper to set my chocolate covered pretzels or strawberries on. After the chocolate gets hard it's easier to take the food off of the wax paper because it doesn't stick. I also use it to set my cookies on to cool. I've also seen people use it to seperate cookies or other goodies in a christmas tin. I hope this helps. Have a great day.

I love using it on the counter to keep things clean. I also press leaves in it. You use a hot iron and iron the leaves between two pieces of wax paper. The iron melts the wax and it also dries out the leaves. The wax helps them keep their lovely colors. It usually takes me a long time to use up a roll though. I must say that if you do use it for no bakes then it is good to have around the house, after all, that way you don't have to worry about buying more before making your no bakes

i use wax paper when making uncooked cookies, making something that takes glue or goop(another glue that stinks but very useful) so that it doesnt make a mess, another thing that we used to use it for was you know those wacky carpets.. to make us go faster we used to rub it on the carpet and it worked great.. mind you dont use it if you are near things that you can hit like a tree... broke the arm and leg on that one.. not fun at all...

We use to use wax paper the same way that plastic wrap and sandwich bags are used to day. Was is put on freezer paper too to keep frozen foods fresher too. Before was paper was invented newspapers were used towrap sandwiches or other foods for lunches.

when u make nobake cookies, u put them on the wax paper to cool down and they dont stick:)

Use it for making rice crispey treats. My mother makes them so i dont know what it is used for, but i know it's in there somewhere.