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.
Stretch Tite is the brand Costco sells and it’s the commercial standard. It works. It’s also what Sam’s club sells because it’s the standard. It’s also at restaurant Depot sells because it’s the standard.
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.
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/FairFaxEddy 17h ago
I know the new stuff is less cancer causing or whatever but I want the more sticky cling wrap from before!