A simple swap can make your roasted vegetables crispier and more evenly cooked.

From acidic tomatoes to seafood, these common foods can cause aluminum to leach into your meal when cooked in foil.

When it comes to packing food, choosing the right wrapping paper can make a big difference in preserving freshness, flavor, and overall quality. Two popular options are aluminum foil and butter paper.

Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. In a lot of cases, parchment paper and aluminum ...

Using aluminum foil as a lid feels automatic in many kitchens. Still, its role during longer cooking times isn't as ...

Whether you’re new to cooking or you’ve been doing it for decades, it’s entirely possible you have no idea what you’re doing in certain areas. One particular topic that home cooks struggle with is ...

Putting aluminum foil or metal utensils inside a microwave is not advisable as many of us have been told throughout our lives. Frasier Crane on the TV show "Cheers" once famously lamented that we can ...

Nobody really knows how the Texas Crutch came to be, or if it was even truly invented in Texas. It’s a barbecue term that simply means wrapping meat in aluminum foil to accelerate the cooking process ...

We hear about “user experience” (or UX) all the time these days, usually in relation to websites and apps, but of course it plays a major role in print design, too. This is something we were reminded ...

Can you put foil in an air fryer? The short answer is yes, you can put foil in an air fryer. However, as with any appliance, it’s smart to check the manufacturer’s recommendations first. Air fryers ...

Not all kitchen dishes are suitable for microwave use and some can even be a safety hazard. In fact, the container you choose to microwave your food in can make a real difference to how it turns out.