On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 08:45:12 -0500, Moe DeLoughan >
wrote:

>On 10/19/2015 4:11 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 11:50:55 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 1:59:43 PM UTC-4, Mark Storkamp wrote:
>>>> In article >,
>>>> KenK > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> How is one supposed to use parchment paper? What kind of baking?
>>>>>
>>>>> TIA
>>>>
>>>> Put paper on peel, put bread or pizza on paper, slide bread/pizza with
>>>> paper onto heated baking stone. (If your oven is as high as 550 deg,
>>>> trim paper within 1/2" of pizza to keep from burning up the paper)
>>>
>>> That's what I mostly use it for. Gives me a little extra insurance that
>>> the pizza will leave the peel readily. Sometimes coordinating the
>>> cooking of two pizzas (his and hers) means one of them stays on the
>>> peel a little too long and doesn't want to slide off neatly.
>>
>> Professional bakers never use parchment paper, pro cooks neither...
>
>That will come as a huge surprise to all professional bakers and cooks
>(99% or more of them) who use parchment paper. They are, obviously,
>the number one consumer of the product, which is why it was so
>difficult to find at a retail level until comparatively recently - and
>then, nearly always in the roll form, which isn't used professionally.

Yep, in both commercial bakeries I worked at we got "baking papers" in
a box precut to full baking sheet pan size. Not on a roll.


>I'd previously mentioned getting a carton of the parchment as a gift
>back in the 1980s. Back then it was sold wholesale only. My sister
>couldn't even buy it directly from the wholesaler that serviced the
>bakery she worked at. She ended up bartering with the paper company
>salesman, who agreed to give her a carton that "fell off the truck" in
>exchange for a case assortment of her homemade preserves.

Aha!!! Ah yes, barter trade!! The Venture bakery I worked at was at
the very "back" of the Vebnture store right behind the Vebnture store
restaurant, and one time when we were having a cookie spoecial and
making buttloads of cookies, I traded the guy working in the
restaurant a bunch of cookies for a bucket full of the restaurants
fried chicken!! Great deal for both of us!! We had NO meat in the
bakery!! YUM!! :-)

John Kuthe...