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Default (2008-08-05) NS-RFC: Remembering the shopping bags...

Blinky the Shark > wrote:
> Serene Vannoy wrote:
>
> > ChattyCathy wrote:
> > > http://www.recfoodcooking.com
> > >
> > > Gonna blame Nancy Young's thread for this one.

> >
> > We probably remember our bags 70% of the time or so. When we
> > don't, I just get paper ones and use them for things like
> > collecting paper recyclables, setting out Freecycle goods, and
> > draining fried foods.

>
> Draining fried foods?


Yep. Plain brown paper bags work better than paper towels for absorbing
excess grease from (deep) fried foods. Mom taught me that trick years ago.