Jane S wrote:
> Here in the UK at Tesco's you can get bargain aluminium kitchen foil
> for 24 pence (about 40 cents) for 10 metres.
>
> Meanwhile, regular (non-bargain) cling film costs about the same per
> metre. Weird pricing.
>
> I would much prefer to cover a bowl of food in the fridge with foil
> because the cling film does let a bit if smell through.
>
> But to use foil widely with the same carefreeness as cling-film
> (because it's the same price) feels strange!

They are each useful in their own way - I'd never think of lining a
baking pan with cling film. Nor would I tightly cover a bowl of rising
dough with foil. It isn't one or the other - it's both. (And reuse
the foil, if possible.)

N.