In recent months (and days), I've mentioned my love for professional grade flat sheets of parchment paper.
These sheets are much bigger than the average home cook's baking pans, however. I claimed that it wasn't any big deal to fold them in half or quarters for smaller pans, but it's honestly a bit of a pain to do this.
One Kitchn reader has a great solution and it's inexpensive!
Last week when I made a quick mention about my 5 favorite baking tools, Kitchn reader limes left an excellent tip!
Instead of folding the parchment into half sheets when needed, she simply takes the box to her local Kinkos or FedEx Office and have them cut the stack of parchment sheets in half. This one quick cut down the middle will give you twice as many half sheet pan pieces. That way there's no extra folding or waste for smaller pans and if you need something larger it's easy to double up. Brilliant!
And since they charge you by the cut, it only costs limes $2 to get the job done. Easy!
Thanks limes!
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That is brilliant.
Or you could go to Kinko's and use their huge paper cutters to do it yourself for free... I might have done this for every science fair project I did between 1997 and 2002... I mean, if they're not busy and you have legitimate stuff to copy too...
Do you have kitchen shears in your kitchen? They aren't just for breaking down whole chickens. You can use them to cut paper too!
I'd just be slightly worried about using something on/with my food that had been manhandled by people and equipment at Kinko's (I guess it's FedEx now?).
I suppose just folding it in half and slitting it along the fold with a knife is hopelessly unglamorous and will get me shunned by the entire Internet. Oh well.
LOL @ Hanne B.
In the time it takes to drive to Kinkos, wait in line for someone to cut your paper, then pay, couldn't you have cut them in half yourself? Just do it while watching TV or a movie.