I can't believe I am replying to this. Too funny because Christmas day my DIL's mom wanted me to save the used tin foil; we were at my house. I told her ok but threw it out after she left. It is toooooo yucky afterwards. Also, I don't use it that often.
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I will reuse if it is clean, I'll also reuse a zipper bag if clean. Never if it has held meat or anything that might cross-contaminate. It's not that expensive(and I had always been on a tight budget). We usually buy the large rolls at Sam's and they last forever, it seems. Even when everyone was at home and I used a lot more. I won't reuse sandwich bags for lunches. Just not worth the risk of getting sick.
would like to add, when i say reuse, i mean right now.As in "i'll put the dinner rolls back in the bag they came out of before dinner" or re-wrap the casserole dish before putting in the frig. I don't have stacks of "saved" foil or bags stored for later use. |
I don't reuse foil either. My mother in law use to wash out plastic bags and hang them to dry on the clothes line and reuse them. I never did that either.
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I read on somewhere to run your rotory cutter across a wad to sharpen your cutter. Have done this and it works. Need to remember it for scissors as well.
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I reuse aluminum foil (AF) if its big enough, clean enough and not too crumpled. I actually do not use AF that much anymore. But I have discovered that if you wrap your celery and lettuce in AF it last longer. I have fresh celery from Thanksgiving in my fridge!! I am amazed. We use our lettuce too quickly for me to see if it works as well.
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I will reuse it or put in recycle bin. I understand not all recycle places take it, but our county does.
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Originally Posted by Corky
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But I have discovered that if you wrap your celery and lettuce in AF it last longer. I have fresh celery from Thanksgiving in my fridge!!
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Originally Posted by primbears
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I read on somewhere to run your rotory cutter across a wad to sharpen your cutter. Have done this and it works. Need to remember it for scissors as well.
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I will reuse plastic freezer bags or storage bags after washing carefully and drying. I will save clean foil to reuse. I, too, remember when we saved the string from the chicken feed sacks and reused for stuff. I am, unfortunately, still pretty stingy with what I throw away. Old habits die hard. Out trash can is always the one with the lid that fits on garbage day while everyone else's on the street is bulging.
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I have never used reused foil with food product where it will directly touch it. I reuse it fairly quickly so that is not a lot of it laying around in a drawer. I don't wrap meat in it to freeze. I learned to freeze chicken and other meats on a cookie sheet. I cover the bottom of the sheet with wax paper and then cover the top of the meat with wax paper. After it has frozen, I put the meat (without the wax paper) into a plastic bag. Then I put that plastic bag into another plastic bag. If I need to label what is in the bag, I write it on a piece of paper to be put between the two bags. Never gotten sick either. I am going to try the foil with the celery and spinach.
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