24 February 2024 , 10:36
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If you think you know how to cook, think again - you've been using baking paper incorrectly this whole time.
Baking paper, otherwise known as greaseproof paper or parchment paper, isn't the most complicated thing to use in the kitchen. It's most commonly used to line cake tins and loaf tins to prevent the delicate sponge from sticking to the metal container, but there is one problem with it. If you're a keen baker, you probably know the pain of trying to get the paper to stay in the tin while you prepare your cake batter, as it often pops back up and won't mould to the side of the container.
According to one TikTok user, this is because we've actually been using baking paper incorrectly - and there's an easy way to make sure your paper always fits in the tin.
A woman named Brianna shared a video on her @bjoyce777 account in which she reasoned that the paper is called parchment paper because it's "parched", and therefore you should wet it before you use it.
She said: "You're not listening to the parchment paper, it is parched!", she then ran it under the tap and jokingly called the result "quenchment paper", before showing how it fitted perfectly in her loaf tin without popping back out again. She added: "Now, it'll do its job because it's not parched any more."
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People in the comments were left baffled by Brianna's discovery, as many said they'd never thought of wetting their baking paper before. One person wrote: "Every damn day this app teaches me something," while another said: "If I find out I've been using parchment paper wrong my whole life…"
Other people, however, pointed out that you can achieve the same goal without drenching the paper, as you can simply scrunch up your paper instead. One commenter stated: "For those of you asking, take a dry piece, crumple it into a ball then smooth it out, it will lay flat the same way," and someone else added: "I just crunch it up and then put it in the pan … just skipping the wetting part."
There were also commenters who said they wouldn't be following the trick as it "doesn't say on the box" to wet the paper before using it. However, an article on the website for Reynolds, a brand that creates baking paper in the US, says you can "slightly wet" the paper to prevent it from sliding when using it to roll out dough.