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Illuminating Aluminum Foil

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Society & Culture, Food, Places & Travel, Arts

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This flexible, durable, lightweight metal foil changed how we preserve foods — once it became less expensive than gold. Anney and Lauren take a shine to the science and history behind aluminum foil.

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0:00.0

I'm Annie Reese and I'm Lauren Vogelbaum and today we have an episode for you about aluminum foil and what it endeavor was oh my goodness

0:19.3

I gave myself too much homework again. It was it's oh heck we had to talk about all kinds of things in this one

0:26.4

we really had to I kept having to remind myself this is a food show drop it yeah and also right like like even

0:38.1

within the realm of aluminum foil there were a lot of offshoots that I was like okay we're gonna need to

0:44.1

stick to basically the rolls of aluminum foil right for this one because all of the other food grade

0:53.2

purposes of aluminum foil are too much it's too much yeah I was already like Annie I'm about to

0:59.7

have to describe the bronze age I can't I can't today yeah how did this happen it's been a long time

1:09.8

since I've been like writing an outline and then just stopped and thought wait what am I talking about

1:15.4

because this has nothing to do with food but I want to talk about it because it's interesting yeah

1:21.6

yeah was there any particular reason this one was on your mind no okay cocoa or if there was I

1:30.9

don't know I guess I was like looking through our recent topics and going like okay like maybe

1:37.2

maybe some kind of implement and then I was like cast iron is too big I don't want to talk about

1:45.1

but what about aluminum foil that sounds easier yeah there's a very weary look on Lauren's face right

1:54.7

now that is that's how I feel well I mean it was certainly it was a difficult one to wrangle but it

2:02.2

was there's a lot of interesting things in here and for me like there's I think this list of ideas

2:11.3

like what do you suggest something Lauren a lot of times I'm like oh what are my personal thoughts

2:15.7

and with this one it are immediately had a bunch of things I was like oh this is interesting because

2:20.2

most of them are not food related but the British pronunciation which we're gonna talk about a

2:27.5

little bit I think yeah and then 10 foil and then 10 foil hats and then 10 can being an insult

2:37.6

in Star Wars because that's where my mind is and I'm always kind of like how do they know about 10

2:41.9

cans in Star Wars but okay and I reuse aluminum foil like nobody's business and I think it kind of

2:49.9

frustrates my mom when I go oh because I like hide it because she'll throw it away yeah so I

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