8 Sheets Good Cook Parchment Paper 12 X 16 White vs Baking Paper, Parchment, 70 Square Feet: which is safer?

If You Care Baking Paper, Parchment, 70 Square Feet is the clear pick. 8 Sheets Good Cook Parchment Paper 12 X 16 White carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.

8 Sheets Good Cook Parchment Paper 12 X 16 White

Good Cook

8 Sheets Good Cook Parchment Paper 12 X 16 White

PFAS grade

Poor 25/100

Overall grade

Bad 9/100

Verdict

Skip

Hazard flags

⚑ 4

Material

Paper with silicone or Teflon-family coating-based grease-resistant coating

Confidence

45%

PossibleTeflon-family coating thermal degradation

PossibleUndisclosed coating migration at high heat

PossibleCoating degradation and particle shedding

Our pick

If You Care Baking Paper, Parchment, 70 Square Feet

If You Care

Baking Paper, Parchment, 70 Square Feet

PFAS grade

Excellent 90/100

Overall grade

Excellent 86/100

Verdict

Buy

Hazard flags

⚑ 1

Material

silicone-coated parchment paper

Confidence

82%

PossiblePaper degradation and particulate shedding

Where these two actually differ

  • We flag Fluoropolymer coating thermal degradation, Undisclosed coating migration at high heat, Coating degradation and particle shedding and Microplastic or fiber shedding into food on the Good Cook and not on the If You Care.
  • We flag Paper degradation and particulate shedding on the If You Care and not on the Good Cook.
  • The Good Cook is Paper with silicone or fluoropolymer-based grease-resistant coating where the If You Care is silicone-coated parchment paper, which is most of the difference in these two grades.
  • The gap is 65 points, wide enough that this is not a close call, and the If You Care is the one to buy.
  • We are less certain about the Good Cook grade, at 45% confidence against 82%, because it discloses less.

Both products run through the same public rubric, which covers materials, coatings, brand disclosure, lab findings, and recalls, plus a beyond-PFAS hazard analysis. Grades are model-based estimates, not lab tests. How grades work →

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