Natural Half-Sheet Baking Parchment Paper vs Baking Paper, Parchment, 70 Square Feet: which is safer?
If You Care Baking Paper, Parchment, 70 Square Feet is the clear pick. King Arthur Baking Natural Half-Sheet Baking Parchment Paper carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.
King Arthur Baking
Natural Half-Sheet Baking Parchment Paper
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
PossibleSilicone/wax coating leaching (non-PFAS)
PossibleCoating degradation and particle shedding
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/wax coating leaching (non-PFAS) and Coating degradation and particle shedding on the King Arthur Baking and not on the If You Care.
- We flag Paper degradation and particulate shedding on the If You Care and not on the King Arthur Baking.
- The King Arthur Baking is paper with silicone and/or wax 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 King Arthur Baking grade, at 42% 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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