Is it better to use an aluminum foil pan with or without bleached parchment paper?
This is an easy question to answer. Parchment paper, bleached or unbleached is safer than using aluminum cookware. Unbleached parchment paper is safer than bleached parchment paper. . Cooking parchment is a sheet of bleached or unbleached paper impregnated with silicone. The silicone makes it releasable, that is, food won’t stick to it. . The use of bleached parchment is problematical. It “might” leach dioxin. It “may” leach dioxin. Hard to know for sure. The silicon has some sealing effect on the paper. To be absolutely safe, use unbleached parchment. . I use parchment paper to cook chicken in a George Forman Mini Roaster. I fold the perimeter, put the chicken in, punch a hole over the drain hole, fold the ends and side over the chicken, and voila…no major clean up, perfectly cooked moist chicken. . The safest cooking material is silicone baking sheets. Silicone sheets are good for cookies and stuff (and save trees) . If you’re worrying about dioxin leaching out of parchment, you mi
