Wow.

[vr_trakowski]

I baked a double batch of cookies tonight, to take to work.  And discovered something amazing. 

I thought my little cookie scoop was the best thing going--like a miniature spring-loaded ice cream scoop that saves me so much fiddly work and smears.  But I've found something else. 

Parchment paper. 

Why didn't I know how much easier it made baking cookies?  No mess--in fact, I can lift all the cookies off the pan at once to start cooling.  No burnt bits left behind.  

No ineradicable stains on my brand-new, expensive, "non-stick" cookie pans.  

Yes, it's wasteful, and I can't even recycle the paper as my apartment has no such facilities.  But I don't care, and it is biodegradable.  

And the cookies are pretty good, too. 

Comments

[elfling65.livejournal.com]

I'm new to the baking world and it makes life so much easier. I need to find one of those scoops, I hate getting dough on my hands.

I have to admit, my obsession in the kitchen is spatulas, bowl clean and flipping, kind. I have one really old one, I think we've had it from since we first met, that I prefer over every other one in the drawer. I've gone through 2 dozen bowl cleaning kind and my dog ate the one I loved. I wanted to beat her with the handle!!

[vr-trakowski.livejournal.com]

This is close to what I have, but you can probably find it at a brick-and-mortar place. I can't remember where I got mine.

It's funny how one can fall in love with tools. My mother has knives that are older than I am.