Butcher Paper vs White Butcher Paper 18" x Natural Butcher Paper Roll for Meat and Fish: which is safer?
Idl Packaging White Butcher Paper 18" x Natural Butcher Paper Roll for Meat and Fish is the clear pick. Big Green Egg Butcher Paper carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.
Big Green Egg
Butcher Paper
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
PossibleCoating leachables (unidentified source)
PossibleMicroparticles from coating degradation
PossibleMold or bacterial growth if stored damp
Our pick
IDL Packaging
White Butcher Paper 18" x Natural Butcher Paper Roll for Meat and Fish
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
PossibleMold or microbial growth during storage
Where these two actually differ
- We flag Coating leachables (unidentified source), Microparticles from coating degradation and Mold or bacterial growth if stored damp on the Big Green Egg and not on the IDL Packaging.
- We flag Mold or microbial growth during storage on the IDL Packaging and not on the Big Green Egg.
- The Big Green Egg is Kraft paper with grease-resistant coating (likely silicone or wax) where the IDL Packaging is bleached paper, uncoated, which is most of the difference in these two grades.
- The gap is 70 points, wide enough that this is not a close call, and the IDL Packaging is the one to buy.
- We are less certain about the Big Green Egg grade, at 45% confidence against 82%, because it discloses less.
Both products run through the same public rubric: 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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