So now the criminals at Reynold's Wrap want us to waste aluminum by grilling on it,

[Rabrrrrrr]

thereby entirely defeating the whole reason for cooking food on the grill to begin with, all while giving us the exciting opportunity to completely waste more natural resources for sole reason that we're too goddamn lazy to clean the grill and/or oil it first, AND get some of that precious aluminum into our system that's so necessary if we want to get Alzheimer's.

Seriously, is there no one left with a conscious in this country?!

Fucking hell.

[Kali]

1. is "aluminum" foil really made out of aluminum?

it used to be called tin foil

what is that shit, any way?

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Just looked it up - yes, it is aluminum.

[Kali]

4. I have noticed in the last decade or so

that some foods freaking DISOLVE foil when they are in contact with it, so I pretty much only use it for baking potatoes in a fire anymore.

[Catshrink]

15. Acids in food will react with the aluminum

tomato sauce does this pretty easily.

[Lucian]

3. I hear you.

What also annoys me is individually wrapped anything, with the amount of trash it produces.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Ain't that the fucking truth?

What we need in this country is a president with the balls to say "Look, henceforth it is illegal to make anything non-consumable that isn't recyclable" (meaning, stuff that isn't food, electricity, gasoline, the CO2 in CO2 cartridges, firewood, seeds, etc.)

If a company wants to make something out of whatever materials, they also have to invent a way to make all materials recoverable and recyclable.

Also need to make it illegal to throw away food and similar organics - communities should all be collecting it for mulching, not tossing it into landfills.

[Lucian]

6. Rabrrrrrr for President.

:)

[ThomasQED]

11. Without individual wrappers

how do you know when you reach 100 calories?

Or make your instant microwaveable individual servings of oatmeal?

Or reheat the right amount of premade pancakes in the toaster?

True story - once I was asked if I had made the frosting for a cake myself. "Really??? How??" There are generations of people here who don't know any other way than to buy everything premade and packaged to death.

[Lucian]

22. It's not hard to figure those out.

But I know you were being facetious.

[ThomasQED]

24. It's not hard

and I recognize that for some people it probably helps them psychologically to not overeat, but they could also get a big container and then put it into smaller reusable containers themselves at home.

[myrna minx]

17. I saw a commercial for prunes - yes - prunes, where a young woman

shouts "that's so cool!" when informed that the prunes - yes - prunes, were individually wrapped. So that's what the kids find cool these days: individually wrapped prunes. :rofl:

[XemaSab]

18. I can't say anything nice in response to that

:P

[Lucian]

23. I hate those.

What a waste of plastic. The prunes are already in a sealed plastic container, but then they're also wrapped individually. Gah. :eyes:

[trof]

7. YEAH! WTF is up with that? Grilling corn on the cob:

:wtf:
These goddam recipes that say 'wrap the corn in foil...'.
jeez
:-(

Grill it in the goddam SHUCKS!
You can de-silk it first (easier) or after (HOT!)
Durn a buncha 'foil grilling' anyway.
Might as well throw it in the oven or micro.
bastids

[Old Troop]

8. I think some people have been doing this for a long time.

I can't, for the life of me, imagine why they do it. They're missing that yummy black shit that sticks to the food being cooked (Yea - like you religiously clean your grill). It seems to me that it's just an expensive way to steam food. Why not just steam it?

[Old Troop]

9. Oh and one other thing: my mother used to refer to it as "silver

paper". Obviously she was richer than she let on.

[rug]

10. Left with a conscious what?

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. Oh, goddammit. I meant 'conscience'. Can't believe I fucked that up.

:banghead:

embarrassing.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

13. Forget it, he's rolling.

:rofl:

:toast:

[applegrove]

14. Once again a corporations sees its customers as people to exploit.

[Catshrink]

16. FYI - regular aluminum foil is about 54,000 atoms thick

heavy duty foil is about 80,000 atoms thick, about 1.5 times. Each year I have my students do this lab and their results have been in this range for the past 8 years.

[XemaSab]

19. I went and got some glass storage containers for the fridge

It's not a lot, but it's a small start towards using re-usable items that won't poison the food.

[snooper2]

20. So how are they pushing people to do this...commercial?

Link or something?

I seriously doubt they have any sway one way or another on how people are going to cook their food on a grill.

Oh, and by the way...I take sliced squash, brush lightly with olive oil, some red pepper and salt, and wrap it in FOIL and put it on the grill next to whatever hunk of red meat is getting seared.

OH THE CHIL-DEN!!!!!! :rofl:

[Bertha Venation]

21. Hi, Rabrrrrrrr

Haven't seen you this cheery in a while. :)

edit - just a friendly "howdy," no gibe of any kind implied or intended :hi: