tinfoil and scissors

[kwokj]

Have you ever heard or read the advice that to sharpen a pair of old scissors, you should make a few cuts with them through some tin foil? I always thought that seemed like a good way to wreck some scissors

Comments

[garpu]

I'll keep tin foil in mind, next time we run out of parchment paper. Much love for parchment paper--I have no idea how I baked without it.

Hey, thanks for the reminder! I need to mix up a sponge tonight. (Making sourdough oatmeal bread tomorrow.)

[kwokj]

It's actually not a good substitute for parchment if there is no overhang as ther isn't when you line the bottom of a round cake pan. My cake unfolded fine, but not due to any help from the foil, which remained inside the pan.

[bike4fish]

The aluminum foil trick was for steel scissors. The cheap scissors we get these days are not nearly as hard as steel.

[chrissie]

Yeah I'm pretty sure that the trick is actually for old scissors. With the cheap ones you're better off with either a knife sharpener or just getting a new pair.