burnt parchment paper
I recently started using parchment paper, especially when cooking breads. The parchment paper makes clean up a breeze, and helps protect the bread bottoms from my beat up baking sheets, but the paper always burns to a crisp in the oven! is that normal? it smells terrible when it burns.
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6 Comments:
Normally the only time I've found parchment paper burns is either heat in excess of 450* or when it contacts something greasy. Try to make sure your baking sheets are as nongreasy as possible. Maybe someone who bakes more might know.
huneybumper at 10:38AM on 02/16/09
The burning is normal. You are baking at pretty high temps after all. I use parchment paper to slide my bread off my peel and onto my baking stone. I pull the parchment out after ten minutes and do the rest of the baking directly on my stone. Even at that point, it's pretty burnt and almost smoking.
SqueezeBottle at 10:41AM on 02/16/09
It has it's place, but one word: Silpat. That brand, not an imitator.
PerkyMac at 11:16AM on 02/16/09
Burning is very normal at high temps. What you smell is the silicon treatment that is in the parchment paper.
dmcavanagh at 12:13PM on 02/16/09
Paper burns at 451F (hence the name of the book.)
simon at 2:05PM on 02/16/09
as long as the burning is normal (and doesn't mean my oven is about to explode), i'm okay with it.
redhead at 6:27PM on 02/16/09