White Butcher Paper 18" x Natural Butcher Paper Roll for Meat and Fish vs Reynolds Grill Master Bundle Butcher Paper Plus Pitmasters Choice Foil Plus Grill Foil: which is safer?
Idl Packaging White Butcher Paper 18" x Natural Butcher Paper Roll for Meat and Fish is the clear pick. Reynolds Grill Master Bundle Butcher Paper Plus Pitmasters Choice Foil Plus Grill Foil carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.
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
Reynold's
Reynolds Grill Master Bundle Butcher Paper Plus Pitmasters Choice Foil Plus Grill Foil
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
PossibleFluorochemical leaching from grease-resistant coating
PossibleAluminum leaching
PossibleCoating degradation from heat and friction
Where these two actually differ
- We flag Mold or microbial growth during storage on the IDL Packaging and not on the Reynold's.
- We flag Fluorochemical leaching from grease-resistant coating, Aluminum leaching and Coating degradation from heat and friction on the Reynold's and not on the IDL Packaging.
- The IDL Packaging is bleached paper, uncoated where the Reynold's is paper, aluminum foil with grease-resistant coating, 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 Reynold's 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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