The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Cooking With Aluminium Foil

The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Cooking With Aluminium Foil

Aluminium foil is an irreplaceable helper in the kitchen. With it we can prepare meat, vegetables and fish easy and healthy, without using extra amounts of oil.

What Makes Aluminium Foil Your Best Kitchen Sidekick

Products, cooked with aluminium foil become tender and flavourful. It's more than enough to just place them in the foil, add your favourite spices and a few or no drops of oil at all and, after a certain amount of time, you will get a mouthwatering meal.

When you use aluminium foil to bake or roast your food, the necessity to clean the burnt-on oil on your baking dish is off the list of your domestic chores. What's more, you can use the foil as a lid for the baking trays, when you don't want to crisp the meal. It's enough to cover the tray with a piece of foil, in order to protect it from burning.

Aluminium foil is comfortable to store already cooked meals – just cover well the meal and put it in a fridge, after it gets to room temperature, so that the smell doesn't spread on the rest of your products inside.

Aluminium Foil And The Healthy Issues It Raises

It's more than obvious that aluminium foil, as the name suggests, contains the chemical element aluminium. The thermal preparation of products, that contain acids – for example tomatoes, is not safe from a healthy point of view, if it is performed in foil.

When cooking acidic products in foil, the aluminium manages to penetrate the food. The high level of aluminium can be harmful for the human organism. The excess of metals in our bodies leads to malfunction of the neural system, it can worsen the functions of various important organs. However, if you don't cook tomatoes or similar products every day in aluminium foil, there's no reason to worry about your health condition.

Some Particular Traits Of Cooking With Foil

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Actually, cooking food in aluminium foil is way healthier than grilling or frying. There are a few methods to do that appropriately, depending on the kind of products, which you want to cook:

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Whole or big pieces – (chicken, fish or fatty meat) – in order to wrap these, the edge of the foil should point on top. Put them inside and form a pipe. Press both ends of the foil and spin twice inwards by slightly applying pressure;

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When you cook a dish in an aluminium utensil, it should stay inside only during the cooking process – otherwise it will acidify and become unfit for consumption.

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Zucchini apples, potatoes and all of the kind we place on a square sheet of foil. Lift the ends and twirl them a few times (as if you pack a candy). Put them in the oven in this position, with the twisted end on top.

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When baking sweets, cover with aluminium foil the baking tray. After it's done, it's just necessary to lift it slightly, in order to take out the warm pastry without breaking it.

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Put the little flat portions of food in a sheet of rectangular foil. First, close one after another the long sides of the sheet, then both short sides;

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When cooking soufflé, it will not lose its volume and size that fast, if you cover it with aluminium foil before serving.

Aluminium Foil Beyond The Cooking Part

Oven Cleaning Your trustworthy kitchen appliance will certainly benefit from the more often usage of aluminium foil. When you cook in the oven chamber, usually the burnt-on stains and cooked grease can drive you crazy. With aluminium foil, their presence will certainly diminish. It is also a recommended way of cooking by most professional cleaning technicians throughout Southwark.

Carrying Food Around When you get ready for a pick-nick, roll separately each piece of food in aluminium foil and after that place it in the cooling bag. The ice bags will hold for longer, if rolled in foil, too.

The Ice Container It won't get stuck on the freezer grid, if you isolate both surfaces from each other with a sheet of aluminium foil.