Culinary Unbleached 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. PaperChef Culinary Unbleached Parchment Paper carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.
PaperChef
Culinary Unbleached Parchment Paper
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
LikelyPFAS in grease-resistant coating (evaluated separately)
PossibleCoating degradation and microparticle shedding
PossibleHeat stability of unspecified coating
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 PFAS in grease-resistant coating (evaluated separately), Coating degradation and microparticle shedding and Heat stability of unspecified coating on the PaperChef and not on the If You Care.
- We flag Paper degradation and particulate shedding on the If You Care and not on the PaperChef.
- The PaperChef is Unbleached paper with grease-resistant coating (unspecified) 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 PaperChef 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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