To ask the most stupid question

[Holdmysandwichplease]

I'm sat doubting my own intelligence here....

Cooking food in the oven (for example fish fingers), we always put the food onto tin foil on a baking tray. Is this not normal? A friend just saw me doing it with oven chips and looked at me like I was nuts? I occasionally would use baking paper depending on what we have in the drawer....

Our oven is currently playing up and not heating food in the middle, friend suggested the fault was because I use tin foil.

I use tin foil cos my baking trays don't fit in my small dishwasher, so it means minimal washing up effort ... all my food is cooked equally across the tray though!

Yep I always do, baking trays don’t fit in my dishwasher and if something doesn’t fit in the dishwasher, it’s never going to get cleaned!

I use a cheap liner from poundland. I don't like using this just once or twice, and they hold up for ages.

I use baking paper - it saves on washing up and means nothing sticks.

DS had high metal levels a few years ago so stopped using foil unless absolutely necessary and even then would line with baking paper if at all possible.

I reuse the foil trays that some foods come in from the supermarket, especially when cooking meat/ anything that could get sticky etc (means I can cook meat & veggie sausages on the same oven tray, separated in their foil trays). For dry foods like fish fingers, chicken fingers etc I would put straight onto the oven tray.

Silicon liner , used mine so many many times. Soak and wipe. Teflon always peals in the end, I give up with it.

I don’t used anything, just the trays and wash whilst still earm

Always use foil. Eliminates, or at worst massively reduces, washing.

I use foil or baking paper, depending on what it is. I have recently ordered some non stick washable liners, hoping to reduce my waste.

Whilst we are asking stupid questions...
Can you strike a match on a jelly?

I always use foil regardless of what I am cooking

I’m with you OP, foil or baking paper always. It does not cause undercooking. On the plus side it stops from turning your oven into a greasy nasty mess.

Never used to but me and DH do now, one less thing to clean and great if something is sticky!

I always use foil, partly because my trays are old and no longer non stick and partly to make clean up easier. Plus it means I can cook different things on the same tray eg. one dc hates fish fingers so I fold the foil to make a divider between everyone else's fish finger and awkward dc's chicken nuggets.

Use foil here. It makes washing the trays a lot easier.

I didn’t even know that was a thing. I just put it on a tray then put the tray in the dishwasher - though most of the time I use an air fryer these days.

I use it now that our dishwasher broke and I can't afford another. Plus my trays have no non stick left on them.

I've been putting tin foil on the baking tray for ten years now. Instead of getting through a tray or two per year, I'm still using the same one I bought in 2010. Plus there is no burnt-on mess when washing up, so it's win/win. Sure there's a little bit more waste using the foil all the time, but for the benefit it brings it's a no brainer.