Eeww is right.

As for parchment, regular parchment now is coated with silicone, the "organic" type parchments, with latex, the way baking parchment used to be.

I have more than once left plasticw rap on something that had been frozen when I popped it into the oven....and I can second the "ewww!"
You know the old hint about making an extra lasagna to freeze and have later?....and the warning about putting foil on something tomato-ey....cover it first with saran, then the foil....but I will add...be sure to remove the plastic before baking!!

That's 1 example of where I use parchment paper, lindac!

How is silicone bad to ingest? I didn't think it was...

How is silicone bad to ingest? I didn't think it was...

No, for the moment there's nothing bad about it. But in view of the number of other miracle substances that turned out to be major oopsies, I'm not convinced at all.

I loathe all the needless silicone coating on bakeware these days, too, but that's just me.

Silicone is supposed to be inert to foods. Does it come off the parchment? I didn't think it did... Even so, the trace amount shouldn't be an issue. The issue, as I understand it, with leaking silicone breast implants isn't the silicone itself, but the foreign substance getting into parts of the body where foreign substances aren't supposed to go. Like the classic grain of sand in an oyster. If it goes into your alimentary system--which is designed to push indigestible substances out--it shouldn't be a problem. I suppose if you were ingesting a lot of it, and it somehow glommed onto your tissues, it could be bad... Breathing flour is bad for you too.

The problem with many plastics is that component chemicals are altered under heat from something innocuous and inert to something bad that can be leeched into your food. There are some plastic films that are rated safe for heating as in no altered and mobile substance has been found when they're heated, but still ewww.

Hi, plllog. I wasn't thinking of implants or anything like that; rather of all the things over the years that have been suggested as safe alternatives to bad stuff that years later turn out to be at least as harmful when more is known.

i'd prefer not to consume either plastic or silicone, given a choice.

I agree with you entirely! I don't want to consume them either, though I'd prefer either of them to shards of glass. My question is whether the plastic on freezer paper or the silicone or latex on parchment actually gets into the food.

Hmm, I was under the impression that silicon is a nutrient that we need for good health. I realize that silicone, with an 'e', is not the same thing, but isn't it somewhat related?

There are two types of plastic wrap, commercial kitchen wrap and supermarket plastic wrap.

The commercial grade kitchen wrap is approved for cooking, comes in 2,000’ Rolls.