Whether you go to a barbecue or use a home oven, you will often use tin foil to wrap food for barbecue, steaming, and baking. You can use tin foil to make many delicacies, such as grilled fish, grilled ribs, grilled eggplant, enoki mushrooms, and various seafood.
Tin foil is only a thin layer, usually no thicker than 0.2mm, but it has strong heat conductivity and high temperature resistance. It can be used to wrap food. It not only heats quickly and prevents burning, but also heats evenly and easily locks in the soup, maintains a fresh and tender taste, and prevents oil stains from getting on the oven.
Every time you wrap food with tin foil, you will face a super problem. How to tell the front and back? Matte side outward or glossy side outward?
Rumors about tin foil on the Internet-it is said that using this thing will cause Alzheimer's disease and renal failure. Can this tin foil still be used?
However, tin foil is not tin, so what exactly is tin foil?
In baking, many materials and props are often used to assist, among which tin foil is a more commonly used one. In the process of barbecue, tinfoil is often used.
Tin foil is also called aluminum foil, which is mainly used for cooking, holding food, or barbecue, and wrapping food during barbecue.
Now the tinfoil that everyone buys in the supermarket is aluminum foil, which is composed of aluminum and does not contain tin. Tin foil is not named tin but aluminum.
The main ingredients of tinfoil: 96.91% aluminum content, other ingredients are oxygen, silicon, iron, copper, etc.
Will aluminum foil affect people's health?
The answer is no. Because in the process of making aluminum foil, a coating will be added to the paper surface to prevent aluminum from leaking directly, and not everyone 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 tinfoil:
It has been widely used in food processing for many years, such as: cans, soft packaging for beverages, lining of potato chip packaging bags, golden candy wrappers, etc.
1. When baking cakes, biscuits or bread, in order to prevent the surface from being too dark, you can cover the food with tin foil, with the photosensitive side facing up.
After covering with tin foil, you don't have to worry about the bread or biscuits being too dark in color, so that the heat radiation on the surface of the cake is even, reducing the cracking phenomenon on the surface, and ensuring that the food is baked.
2. Friends who often barbecue can use it to wrap meat and bake it, so that the baked meat is more tender and has enough moisture.
3. You can also use tin foil to wrap the movable bottom mold into a solid bottom mold, so that you can use the water bath baking method without buying a solid bottom mold.
Correct use of tin foil:
1. One side of the tin foil is shiny and the other side is matte. Because the matte surface reflects less light and absorbs more heat outward, when wrapping food, the matte side should contact the food and the shiny side should be exposed.
If you accidentally use it upside down and the shiny side contacts the food, it may cause the food to stick to the tin foil.
2. Try to avoid contact with seasonings or foods with strong acidity and alkalinity.
For example: vinegar, lemon, baking soda, etc., to avoid chemical reactions and the formation of aluminum salts; because this aluminum salt can be absorbed by the human body.
3. It is best to rinse with clean water before use to avoid eating small debris produced during the processing of the tin foil.
