The Difference Between Wax Paper And Parchment Paper

I can tell you from first hand experience what the difference between wax and parchment paper is!  I decided to make some cookies tonight, and while I was pondering UI design in .NET, I grabbed the wax paper instead of the parchment paper, put my cookies on it, and stuck it in the oven at 375 Degrees.  Well let me tell you, about 10 minutes later, there was an odd melted plastic kind of smell in the air, and well.. you can guess the rest.  Wax paper does not belong in the oven, it nearly caught on fire, while parchment paper doesn’t suffer from the same shortcoming.

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