Baking Parchment Paper Roll vs Baking Paper, Parchment, 70 Square Feet: which is safer?
If You Care Baking Paper, Parchment, 70 Square Feet is the clear pick. Great Value Baking Parchment Paper Roll carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.
Great Value
Baking Parchment Paper Roll
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
PossibleSilicone coating degradation at high heat
PossibleMicroplastic/particle shedding from worn coating
PossibleSilicone migration into fatty or acidic foods
Our pick
If You Care
Baking Paper, Parchment, 70 Square Feet
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
PossiblePaper degradation and particulate shedding
Where these two actually differ
- We flag Silicone coating degradation at high heat, Microplastic/particle shedding from worn coating, Silicone migration into fatty or acidic foods and Fluorochemical residue in coating (non-PFAS related hazards of fluoropolymers) on the Great Value and not on the If You Care.
- We flag Paper degradation and particulate shedding on the If You Care and not on the Great Value.
- The Great Value is silicone-coated paper (coating chemistry undisclosed) 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 Great Value grade, at 35% 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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