I received this in email this week.
Some useful information, in case you didn't already know.
If you did, then you are way smarter than me!
(Don't you even try and act like you already knew this, either.)
I had to go into the kitchen and check this out for myself. Whoever looks at the end of your aluminum foil box? You know when you try to pull some foil out and the roll comes out of the box. Then you have to put the roll back in the box and start over. The darn roll always comes out at the wrong time.
Well, I would like to share this with you.
Yesterday I went to throw out an empty Reynolds foil box and for some reason I turned it and looked at the end of the box. Written on the end it said, Press here to lock end. Right there on the end of the box is a tab to lock the roll in place. How long has this little locking tab been there? I then looked at a generic brand of aluminum foil and it had one, too. I then looked at a box of Saran wrap and it had one too! I can't count the number of times the Saran wrap roll has jumped out when I was trying to cover something up.
I'm sharing this with my friends. I hope I'm not the only person that didn't know about this.
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this is important life altering information and I, an old but not wise user... thank you!!
mil
WOW! Good to know!
lol... this is better than any recipe- well, for this minute anyway. I never knew!! Great public service announcement!
I've never ever noticed that!
For some weird reason I did know this :) I don't know how. But dontcha think they could have a machine that pushes the tabs in before shipping so we don't have to thik about it???
wow. amazing how such an invention can make things so much easier... how is this not known the world over?? or maybe it is and im the one other person who didn't know this!
DOH! (Sammy the F-bunny says, Hi)
I actually did know this . . . BUT only because a distant relative used to work for Reynolds (he's since been job eliminated) and I used to get Reynolds Wrap for free (since they used to give it out to employees) and he enlightened me. I was seriously bummed when he lost his job (and I lost my freebie). Notwithstanding this "trick," I still manage to f-up the roll.
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I LOVE that tip!!!! I can't wait to get home to try it!
I had no idea. Great tip - thanks for sharing! I am off to push in the tab on my tin foil box.
raises hand - I never ever noticed that!
Oh, man! Right after I post this comment I'm going downstairs to look at my box of foil... I can't believe I never knew this! LOL
ROTFL!!! I can SO relate, since I've done that multiple times...this is from someone who opens up the wrong side of milk cartons and has to use scissors to open most packages. I'm all thumbs! Thanks for the tip!
PS: Love your blog, and I read it faithfully.,
It's not that I didn't know it was there. I just always forget about it until it's too late. Thanks for the reminder!
Not so lucky over here on this side of the Atlantic - no 'press to lock' tabs to be found on any of the boxes in my kitchen. Just makes it worse now that I know I'm missing something! :)
are you kidding me??? all this time...I hate saran wrap for this reason!!
I can honestly say, you changed my life today. Haha, thanks!
OMG, LOL, I didn't know about that! All of these year?
I am impress! Thanks.
After all this time! Thank you for the very useful info!
omgosh! wow! *runs downstairs to check on aluminum foil + saran wrap boxes*
I never knew and I am heading to the drawer RIGHT now to do this...thank you because it always happens to me too!
tyou need to pitch this info to the makers of saran wrap and reynolds wrap. do you think they think we all know????
this could be their new ad campaign!
For crying out loud!!! How many times have I thrown the )*(^^^&%$^roll across the kitchen because I couldn't keep it in the box to tear it?????? Won't happen again!
haha great tip! i'm checking mine right now!
I totally didn't know about the ends of the foil box. I had to go see it for myself.
this is pretty amazing to me - as someone who has many a time re-rolled the foil (which of course is a total wreck after i've re-rolled it)!
OMG - who knew this? I surely didn't.
Oh my god!! Thank you so much for the tip!! I feel like an idiot for not knowing this. I guess we learn something new every day!
Stacey,
I wanted to thank you for posting this "Public Service Announcement".
I shared it with my 92 yr old friend last night as we were making candy in her kitchen. I wish you could have seen her expression! And she ran her own cafe for 25 years...and this was something she had never known! So, thanks from both of us!!!
Connie
That is brilliant! Honestly, you're right. I never knew that!
I didn't know that either. Thank you so much. Sometimes we don't know even about the top of our nose.
i didn't know that!
tomorrow im off to the supermarket to check all the foils available.
thanks for the info.
NOW that's way cool! after reading your post i immediately went to the kitchen to look at my foil and wrap and lo and behold, they were there. even my husband was impressed!
OMG I had to run right away and look ALCAN foil doesn't have a tab, nor does my 1000ft roll of plastic wrap, but my waxed paper and my cheap foil wrap does have tabs. The wax paper the tabs are on both ends. Way to funny I did not know this.
how is it possible not to know this?
I just found that out recently. Vanna explained it at the end of Wheel of Fortune, now I tell everyone I know.
this is information I need.....
I had no idea either and I have a house full of kids! thank you thank you
I found a link to your site on sybermoms.... they thank you too!
LOL how did you not notice that? I can't imagine the pain and suffering you must've experienced, years of not knowing about the tab thingies. It would've driven me mad.
I just got my first roll of Freezer Paper yesterday and I had no idea, if the little triangles at the end of the pack were made for some use.
Thank you so much! It works for FreezerPaper as well.
Greetings from Germany,
Tanja
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weird.. i just noticed this myself a couple weeks ago
"July 2"--me, too...a couple of weeks ago.
i never knew this either...cool
Didn't know either, but why the **** couldn't they have just done it for us all these years!
The reason most people don't know about this is because most people aren't dumb enough to realize that squeezing the box stops it from rolling....
rolls eyes...
pardon the pun...
Seriously, the tab isn't anything special, it's for the dumb average person that can't just squeeze the box itself...
Wow!!!alot of dumb people
hey! i never knew this and i checked and even aussie foil boxes have it (generic brand and all!!)
thanks for the hot tip!!
wonder, never thought something so simple would make me feel smart.
for anyone who hasn't realized this you are a complete idiot. i have been aware of said 'innovation' since i was probably 9 or so years old. take some time and look around the kitchen... jeeze
Kristopher
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Haha... it's true! I'd never noticed this, so at first I thought it was an "only-American" thing - but it's just the same here in Germany! Thanks a lot :))
I had to go look too. My foil has it, but my parchment paper doesn't. Who knew?!
The Tabs weren't added to the boxes to keep the foil from popping out, although that's an added benefit. The tabs were designed into the boxes so they could be hung up.
Americans in modern times are not handy in the kitchen, or even resourceful in a more general sense. The number of people who were surprised by this revelation discourages me.
interesting trick, but how about not using aluminum foil or saran wrap at all and finding alternatives, such as reusable glass containers and cloth wraps. Even wax paper is used with environmentally damaging chemicals which leach into your food and life. :(
Really people should be more aware of issues like this, however, it's little tricks like this that make us believe we've discovered something 'smart' :(
I got my degree in food service and have been in the business for forty years besides all those years of home cooking and I NEVER EVEN HEARD OF THIS TRICK...This goes to prove, no matter how old the dog is, she CAN learn new tricks.
i cant believe none of you knew that!!
I always complain at my boyfriend because his aluminum foil never has that tab pressed in, so when I cook in his kitchen the roll comes rolling out! I can't believe people never noticed this! Of course, I am the kind of person who looks over all the text on the box or can :)
Here I am - I teach people to cook and I write a food blog - and I never knew that! Thanks!
whow! that changed the way i do that from now on.
I'm shocked that so many people did NOT know this... I mean... REALLY? Is this a joke?
REALLY!?
Thanks for sharing. A clever find!
I noticed this last week when I bought a new roll of foil. I can't believe I missed it after all these years!
Useful tip. Thanks!
The moment I read about this post I ran to my kitchen and picked up the aluminum foil box. I cannot describe the disappointment I felt when I realized that Alcan does not have this feature. Looks like I'll be buying a different brand from now on...
It made me incredibly excited to find out that I knew something that a lot of people had never used before. I am 18 years old and I have known about this little trick for about 10 years.
i totally had no idea for the longest time and then i found out and told everyone i knew and my mother was like DUH of course. i had no idea. she certainly never showed me!
I noticed that the waxed paper & parchment paper rolls don't have this though...not fair!
Now if someone in the Aluminum foil department at Reynolds would just take a minute and walk over to the Parchment Paper department and tell them about this innovation, life would be good!
I KNEW THIS. I actually don't know much but I knew this!! :o)
It's 2011 and I just now noticed that, made me literally LOL!
I can't believe after so many years I never looked at the end of the box!
OMG - I've been cooking too may years not to have noticed this little trick. Thanks again for enlightening so many of us! Cheers
Haha!! Thank you for this post! I didn't know either!! LMAO
OMGoodness I have had times with seran wrap....
Holy crap, who would have thunk it?!?! Lol ;)
At first I thought I knew what u were gonna say.....then you surprised me!! I had just finished a roll of foil this morning and ran to get it out of the trash, yup the tab was there.....checked in pantry for plastic wrap, yup its there.....wow, this is gonna be life changing!! ;)
I'm in aww right now. Those dang things never seem to stay in the box; TY
I jumped right up and ran to the refrigerator and looked at my plastic wrap (I keep it in there because it doesn't stick--I love stuff like this--yet gets sticky again when it warms up!). Unbelievable! I never knew tis!
Just ran to the kitchen and popped all my tabs!!! (The wax paper roll didn't have one though.)THANKS!
My boyfriend {of all people!} just showed me this the other day! I can't believe I went this long not knowing that!
wow,I didn't know this and been using f for a very long time.Thanks..
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