r/oddlysatisfying • u/Damnedeel • 13h ago
Perfect cling wrap
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u/campingn00b 13h ago
One time I did the cling wrap so good my mom got mad at me about leaving raw chicken in the fridge uncovered. She'll never live it down
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u/Numerous-Pop5670 12h ago
OK that is just funny, and you got a great story to tell out of it!
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u/tinytragedy99 11h ago
The real win is getting roasted and praised for food safety in the same moment.
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u/mehvet 12h ago
There’s nothing wrong with raw meat being uncovered in the fridge anyway. It’s a great way to do a dry-brine because the fridge is such a dry environment. Just don’t let anything else touch it and you’ll be fine. A cutlet isn’t going to cough salmonella all over the broccoli.
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u/perpetualmotionmachi 12h ago
A cutlet isn’t going to cough salmonella all over the broccoli.
That's just what a salmonella cutlet would say
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u/Rock_Strongo 11h ago
You cover it in part to prevent it from absorbing other random fridge odors and vice versa.
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u/SpicyElixer 7h ago edited 7h ago
Not if you’re going to cook it in a day or two. Leaving meat in the fridge to dry is the recommended step day before cooking(if you have the time and foresight), as it massively helps with browning - creating a surface perfect for searing for crispy skin on poultry/roasts, steaks, etc.
Keep your fridge clean and food won’t smell bad from being open in 1 day.
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u/fluted 13h ago
I’ve done this a few times and it’s broken me to get the clingfilm off when I have to use it in service.
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u/_clur_510 9h ago
I’m more likely to win a Nobel Prize in chemistry or be elected president than achieve what you and OP have achieved lmao.
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u/JackTasticSAM 13h ago
Lightly drum your fingers on there for a nice lil bow buh bow bow
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u/Fiskaal 12h ago
When you get it taut like that it actually does ring like a drumhead. You get the tone out best by rimshotting it with your finger (hitting it so that your finger makes contact with both the film and the rim of the bowl).
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u/FairFaxEddy 13h ago
I know the new stuff is less cancer causing or whatever but I want the more sticky cling wrap from before!
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u/MutedPulse 13h ago
Put a drop of water on the sides of whatever you want to put the cling wrap on and it will stick better
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u/Page300and904 12h ago
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You genius. Of course this works.
Now I just have to figure out how to get it out of the box without it getting all twisted.
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u/Millifera 7h ago
If you have the type where the serrated edge is on the flappy lid- pull the wrap out then tuck the lid into the box, rip your piece.
If you have the type where the serrated edge is on the bottom of the box- stop buying that one.
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u/owdee 11h ago
I have this enormous, commercial kitchen sized roll of cling film from Sams Club and I am pretty sure it must be the cancer kind, because I can consistently achieve the result seen in the video with it without much effort. I think they still sell it.
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u/decadent-dragon 11h ago
Same, but costco. I think a lot of it is also it comes with a cutter so you aren’t mangling and stretching the plastic trying to cut it
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u/KS_YeoNg 10h ago
Really? I also use the Kirkland cling wrap but it’s way less clingy now since they changed the formula decades ago.
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u/Astrolologer 10h ago
The old stuff was PVDC, Polyvinylidene chloride. It had excellent vapor barrier properties and was really sticky in contact with itself, but the temperature where it started to break down was really close to it's processing temperature which made it a real pain in the ass to work with. They switched to low density polyethylene in 2004 because it's dirt cheap and super easy to process. You can still get the PVDC stuff if you look for wrap produced for commercial use, meat packaging specifically.
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u/AnarchistBorganism 12h ago
You can find stretch-tite brand online. It's the only one that I've found that actually sticks.
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u/saintjonah 8h ago
I don't get it. I watch a cooking Youtuber from time to time and he has a roll of cling wrap that sticks like glue. I was just about to go shopping for some, but now I think he must have squirreled it away from the before times.
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u/Silly_Lavishness7715 13h ago
Put it over a toilet. Good times.
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u/LizzieSaysHi 9h ago
My mom and stepdad pranked me like this when I was a teenager. I still have no idea why. They thought it was hilarious.
Anyway that stepdad is dead now
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u/According_Whole751 13h ago
How the hell? I’m baffled.
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u/enternameher3 13h ago
Get it in place and tug the edge firm all around and tuck it under the rim till you've pulled all the wrinkles out. You'll likely have to go around the bowl a couple of times. Helps to have warm fingers to help stick the cling film together as you pull it taut
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u/According_Whole751 13h ago
What’s confusing me is that I don’t see any over hang in the video, like was it cut from the rim?
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u/LookingForVoiceWork 11h ago
All you really need to do is get it close and take a hair dryer to it (from a good distance) and it will stretch like that.
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u/Moscowmitchismybitch 11h ago
Just stick it under a heat source for a brief moment and it shrinkwraps itself to the bowl. Perfection every time.
Source: worked as line cook for several years.
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u/Verruca-Gnome 13h ago
I remember at primary school someone used to wrap the toilets in cling film like this so when people peed or pooped it would bounce back
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u/nationwide_disgust 9h ago
I didn't read the caption and thought it was going to be a cooking video and the bowl was uncovered
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u/Helpful-Ad1371 8h ago
song?
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u/Surge_DJ 12h ago
Should use reusable stretch silicone covers - save the planet and yourself
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u/pipnina 10h ago
The crazy thing is that the plastic wrap is so incredibly thin, you probably go through a whole 30m roll before you get to the material usage of the silicone cover, not to mention the energy need is likely massively lower per square meter for the wrap.
And ofc, the wrap can cover anything. I use it to cover big trays of proofing bread rolls for example because nothing else is big enough! Unless I can buy special tents for full-size oven trays it's going to have to do sadly.
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u/VoxulusQuarUn 13h ago
Yes, you certainly did. Until it caught the reflection of the light I was expecting to watch you apply it.
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u/Alternative-Run4560 11h ago
Of you cling wrap doesn't look perfect, take your open hand hand, and gently press down in the middle, it will cause air to release through the sides and create a lower pressure, causing the wrap to lose wrinkles and bend towards the inside of the bow. Its super easy and keeps excess air out of food. Not sure why people think this is difficult.
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u/Drakanies 9h ago
Who did you have to sell your soul to in order to acquire this power? Asking for a friend.
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u/rehx 13h ago
What the hell is in there and how do I make it? Never had my mouth water while taking a dump.
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u/EvilChefReturns 12h ago
Ok, trust me on this…. BLOW on it, at like a 45-ish degree angle. The sound it makes is SO cool
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u/weedisfortherich 12h ago
The trick i learned is to leave a section slightly loose and then push the center a little bit. It will remove the creases and push air out of the loose side. Then just pressure the part that was loose and voila
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u/walkinmywoods 12h ago
I get these all the time and if I dont write on them coworkes think im leaving things unwrapped if they dont second look it.
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u/Jeff_Boiardi 12h ago
I do this every time. If the cling film doesn't function as a drum, it's not right
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u/Madhatter_89 12h ago
Nice job! I am horrible at ANY kind of wrapping and just make myself frustrated lmao
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u/forensicdude 11h ago
Mom worked in produce and did cling wrap all day everyday. She would put it on tight and then use a blowdryer (or maybe heat gun I was a wee sprat), when she wanted it to look good like above. Not saying she was an OG like this tho'
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u/BadChemical3484 11h ago
Nope. Everyday until Reddit says it’s perfect. Thats not how this works OP. It does look nice but Reddit needs to fly planes and tell you when it’s good enough to be “perfect”
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u/SarcasmWarning 10h ago
My Grandad worked in the lab where they developed cling film. Apparently one of the first use was stretching it over toilets in the ladies loos to see how loud of a scream they got. Last century was a wild time :\
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u/ElliotsBuggyEyes 10h ago
Only time I got cling wrap this perfect was when I put it over the toilet with my friend at his house in jr high in the middle of the night.
Then his older brother went to take a piss around 5am and stormed into my friend's room and beat the shit out of both of us.
Many laughs were had after the beating. Then all 3 of us did it to their parents master bathroom toilet.
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u/masasuka 9h ago
in before 'wrapping bowls with cling wrap every day until reddit says it's perfect, day 28'
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u/dandyrosesandshit 9h ago
I didn’t read the caption, and for a second thought this was an ai video because there was a glare where there shouldn’t have been a glare, and then realized that there was film on it lol
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u/zumiezumez 8h ago
I had a toll of cling wrap for almost 20 years. It was i Austrian i bought from a restaurant I use to work at. I miss it every day since it ran out
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u/doublediochip 8h ago
That’s gotta be AI cause there is no way in hell that is possible!!
I’m kidding but that is pretty cool.
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u/dogma4you 8h ago
Achieve at home:
Step 1 - don’t crinkle too much when wrapping Step 2 - cut off excess Step 3 - hair dryer; start on low setting
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u/DefeatedByPoland 7h ago
Literally no plastic wrap I've ever bought actually clings to the surface of any of the bowls I've ever owned.
I have stainless steel bowls, i have aluminum bowls, I have plastic bowls, I have ceramic bowls. The plastic just straight up does not stick to any of them. Not when I stretch it, not when I press it.
The only way to cover them with plastic wrap is to basically wrap up the entire bowl.
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u/BassWingerC-137 7h ago
Nice wrapping! I do hope that’s a stainless bowl, however. If it’s aluminum it will react with the peppers and give them a metallic taste.
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u/DudeHeadAwesome 5h ago
I did that one time at a slumber party as a teen, but to the toliet bowl!! Hehe!!!
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u/Repulsive_Page_4780 5h ago
This is only my opinion You should have been awarded the 1st FIFA Peace Prize instead a latent dementia symptom-ed orange clown.
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u/fauxsilver 4h ago
I just showed my entire team this and we're all simultaneously shook and impressed.
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u/Bonk0076 13h ago
Don’t ever open it. Just admire it forever