13 Clever Ways How to Use Aluminum Foil in The Kitchen

Frills we can use to decorate and at the same time protect our fingers from the heat. We can make many days before the event and use when will be ready. I wish I got this idea many years ago! This is a really great technique, foil makes frills flexible and easy to attach. We can decorate roasted chicken, turkey and dishes with handles.

Read more about technique and see photo examples for using this decoration ⇒ How To Make Decorative Frill For Chicken

We can make a simple design on toast for breakfast so easy by using foil and block some area on a slice of bread before toast it. It is simple but I have a few tips that may be good to know before start making a design on toast. As an example, I used a heart shape but it can be so many ideas! The limit our imagination!

Read more about technique this technique → How To Make Easy Heart Design On Toast With Foil

          What can we use if we don’t have cooking twine to tie chicken legs? I use often aluminum foil as a cooking twine substitute when preparing chicken for baking. Very convenient and handy if don’t have on hand food ties. This way the baked chicken comes out presentable and nice look for the presentation.

        Cookin foil can be a great solution for disposing of grease, fat, and oil. To prevent clogging the drainage pipes, we should always dispose of fat in a trash can. Make a pouch out of cooking foil and put it in a bowl. When done cooking I pour the fat into the foil pouch and let it cool off. After grease hardened just close the foil pouch and put it in the trash can. This way we don’t have to worry about clogging out the drain system.

      To prevent rolling vegetables and stick them to the cooking pan we can use a tin foil ring. Another benefit to using foil this way, the airflow under our vegetables helps to cook evenly. I suggest, make a very fluffy with air in its foil ring and when we place the pumpkin in it, the ring takes the vegetable shape. This is a simple step that makes the vegetable much more stable than just making a thin ring with the same amount of foil.

This simple tip foil uses useful when we need a bread clip. Some bags come with wire ties, some don’t but I always have foil on hand to tie my bag. I roll foil in the rope shape and use it as a bread clip in the photo.

This tip I don’t know how effective because tried on my cooking scissors for heavy jobs and hard to see the difference after sharpening. However, good to have the option because I don’t have any tool to sharpen cooking scissors.

I am going to mention my experience with sewing scissors. Maybe it will be useful for someone. For great performance use sewing scissors only for fabric! Never use it for anything like plastic or paper. Newer sharpen it with anything except professional service.

My story. Someone from my family members used my sewing scissors on an unknown object, by this day nobody admitted. I immediately recognize the difference! I used professional sharpening after and nothing brought back the same performance and I end up with new scissors.

       A very impressive and easy way to platting desserts with stencils. With most, stencils are impossible to make it works without foil. Watch the video below how we can garnish French toast for breakfast fancy way with cinnamon. I used Ceylon cinnamon because it is much then cassia cinnamon or Saigon cinnamon. With this method, we can decorate the plate in advance. Just cover it with plastic but be sure it not touching the design. We can use this platting method with other powders like sugar or cocoa as well.

Read more about this technique → Plating Ideas For Dessert With Stencils And Foil

To prevent freezer burn we use aluminum foil on top of the plastic bag. Foil is a great substitute for freezer paper.

Cooking with aluminum foil can be fun if we make shaped plates. It is disposable and perfect for an indoor or outdoor party. Foil plates are so easy to make, just need different shapes of dishes as molds, so we can keep all our plates the same size. I used to make plates from standard and heavy-duty aluminum foil, both work great.

1. Place mold ( I used an oval plate) on a cooking foil and shape foil around the mold.

2. Roll foil around the plate.

3. Shape the tail and our fish is ready to use.

4. The same way we can make other shapes.

I baked fish with vegetables in my foil plate and garnished with a lemon. No much time to make and so fun to serve!

1. Plate in swan shape.

2. Plate in a heart shape.

3. Plate from foil in shape of the sun.

4. Plate in shape of a flower.

5.  Plate from foil in shape of fish.

Cleaning my oven is never a pleasant task after accidental food spillage. The simplest solution is to use foil. Just place foil under the pot.