Uses of Aluminum Foil

These genius aluminum foil uses can save you time, money and effort.

Catch ice cream cone drips

Aluminum foil uses lengthen far beyond keeping your best cookie sheets clean. You can actually prevent children from making a mess of their clothes by covering the bottom of an ice-cream cone with a piece of aluminum foil before handing it to them.

Sharpen your scissors

Use clean pieces of leftover foil to sharpen up your dull scissors. Smooth them out if necessary, and then fold the strips into several layers and start cutting. Seven or eight passes should do the trick.

Speed your ironing

When you iron clothing, a lot of the iron’s heat is pulled by the board itself—requiring you to make several passes with the iron to remove lines. To speed things up, put a piece of aluminum foil under your ironing board cover. This foil will reflect heat back through the clothing.

Put some bite in your mulch

Aluminum foil uses range to the great outdoors, also! To keep hungry insects away from your cucumbers and other vegetables, mix strips of aluminum foil with your garden straw. As an additional benefit, the foil will reflect light back up onto your plants.

Improvise a frying pan

If you don’t feel like carrying a frying pan along on your next camping trip you can form your own by placing a forked stick over two-layers of heavy-duty aluminum foil. Wrap the ends of the foil tightly around the forked branches, while leaving some slack in the foil between the forks. Invert the stick and depress the centre to hold food for frying.

Keep paint off your doorknobs

When you’re painting a door, aluminum foil is great for casing doorknobs to keep paint off them. Overlap the foil onto the door when you wrap the knob, then turns a utility knife around the base of the knob to fit the foil. That way you can paint right up to the edge of the knob.

Bake a perfect pie crust

Some of these aluminum foil uses will help you in the kitchen. Keep the ends of your homemade pies from burning by covering them with strips of aluminum foil. The foil prevents the edges from getting overcooked while the rest of your pie gets perfectly browned.

Soften up brown sugar                                              

To restore your hardened brown sugar to its previous powdery glory, chip off a piece, wrap it in aluminum foil, and bake it in the oven at 300°F (150° C) for five minutes.

Decorate a cake

Form a piece of heavy-duty aluminum foil into a tube and fill it with free-flowing frosting. Advantage: There’s no pastry bag to clean—simply toss out the foil when you’re done.

Keep silverware untarnished

Store recently cleaned silverware on top of a sheet of aluminum foil to prevent ruining. For long-term storage of silverware, first tightly cover each piece in cellophane wrap—be sure to force out as much air as possible—then wrap in foil and seal the ends.

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