Equipment Expert Reveals Our Top Rated Plastic Wrap 

Agreed

Kirkland is just the winner rebranded as Kirkland.

Agree completely

As I said with the Kirkland Kettle potato chips.. #1. Kirkland has top notch products..

Agreed Kirkland also has the cutter on the box as well.

I keep another box of it in my work shop so I can use it as a conformal paint mask before spray painting a complex project. It clings with no residue; it can be cut with a fine utility knife and prevent paint bleed under. It stand up well to the hottest lacquer paints.

Bull crap you’re part of the propaganda in this video this is nothing more than a commercial and a cheap shot

Oh! I forgot about the plastic wrap conspiracy plot by America's Test Kitchen to rule the marketplace. Even though they did their own investigation of "who actually has the best plastic wrap", it's all a promotion for commercialism and ultimately.....Donald Trump's fault. "You bloody bastards! I'll get you for this!"

@@tempestfury8324 Wow they pay you to make this political? Very good job rewatch the video! They’ve never spoke about How well it clings! And bullshit... everyone knows these corporations are out to hammer us as hard as they can regardless of the shady crap they have lurking behind the scenes! The fact that you showed up so quickly after my comment tells me you are a paid troll! Tell your bosses to keep it up society is getting fed up with your crap that’s why Donald Trump got elected in the first place!

@@OGRH Check out my other comments on ATK and tell me I'm part of some grand marketing scheme. You're an idiot.

You got that right.

EXACTLY

Nor in Canada

So true.

try amazon

Ty! Same here!

sorry, it does not matter if they cling to itself or not.. you need to improve the method of using it.

loveistruth 5*7* Try pulling it out and putting it over the bowl before you cut it off, you’ll have better success.

That always the first thing that happens to me is the zip cutter break off.

I've had plenty of bunch up with zip cutters. They can be fussy about how much tension you need to put on the sheet. Perhaps they loose effectiveness with repeated us? I don't think I like one less than a tear strip, but I haven't found myself liking them any more.

We,can't find it? What stores sell it? Thanks

Really,man

I agree. The word 'freeze' tells me its for freezing foods and I wouldn't have picked it up. I use sytetch-tite I get at Costco and a box last me over a year.

I agree totally

Ellen Hofer @ WOW! I need to get a Costco card soon. Thanks for sharing!

Me too - But I have to agree that the cutter is bad!

Very good point. Watching how much plastic wrap they used to cover the board and chicken I was thinking what a wasteful operation they are running, when cutting boards and tools can be sanitized.

What did the cooks use before PLASTIC!!!! Its pathetic this and silver foil wrap

@@gman922 from a Bing search :"A complete answer to this question would require writing a primer on the history of food preservation and transport. I'm not going to write one. Instead, I'll focus on the most common methods of personal food transportation -- (that is, snacks, meals, and travel food) in the middle ages. Transporting foods across the village would have been a daily or weekly event in most medieval European villages, because frequently villages had a common shared oven. This oven belonged to the baker or to the village council, and after the bread was done, the residual oven heat was used to bake beans, casseroles, pot roasts and other slow-cook dishes. Generally, the ceramic vessels for such dishes had lids (which were sometimes sealed with flour paste to retain moisture), and transported unopened in a basket. For road food, one of the most common methods was as pies. Contrary to modern hand-pies with flaky delicious crust, for many medieval pies the crust was thick, dense, and inedible. The crust wasn't part of the food, it was a sealed wrapper to protect it (with indifferent success); you broke open the crust with a knife and ate the insides with a spoon, tossing the crust to the pigs or dogs (or the very poor). Another method of sealing food was "potting", which involved putting meat, seafood, or other foods in a small pot and covering the top with a thick layer of fat or (for expensive dishes) wax. The potted food would be cooked with the sealing layer on top, and thus survive for a couple of days until bacteria penetrated the protective grease layer. " References:

Funny

See my comment. Kirkland is the best brand by Consumer Reports. Google it?

YES! The Wrap N Snap 7500. I have one. Love it. They still sell it on the Stretch Tite website. When Costco pkg'd as Kirkland, they did not pkg the Wrap N Snap. I love to give them as gifts, make great housewarming, wedding etc...

Mine too. Never going back to that other stuff.

@@seanrice5313 plus it doesn't get tangled up on itself, which is my biggest problem.

I bought a Stretch-Tite beige storage/cutter combo from Costco a few years ago that cuts clean through from pressing down on the lid. Best solution I've ever used.

@@gabelstapler19 i'll keep a look out. nice tip.

yes

I used to think that. But the rolls are so large and heavy that they can be hard to find storage space for, and awkward to use. I've gone to having small grocery sized rolls in my drawers for those times when I just need a single to small sheet to wrap a leftover or something.

@@acninee I agree they are large and difficult to find space for. That's been a draw back as to why I never purchased. I also just try my best to avoid plastic wrap, so I really don't purchase a consumer grade box more than one a year or even less than that. But I still think that food service plastic wrap has a better cling than consumer grade wrap.

I use it so much that it sits on my counter and I don’t mind it

I’m glad someone noticed this!

The price may have gone up due to a rush of people buying it. The item they link to is nearly out of stock as of this writing.

You might want to check your math. $40 for 500 square feet works out to be $8 per hundred. On top of that, the price is for 500 linear feet which is 630 square feet (because it is 15” wide) so closer to $6.30 per 100 square feet.

@@Toolman93 Sure, bring facts into it! Sheesh¿

Toolman93 Use the link provided (to Amazon). The cost is 4 times what the video says it is. Four. YOU do the math. (And pay attention to what the BOX says, not the Amazon description.

jack tracy, I just RE-checked the Amazon link and the video, and my math is still correct. The video says “$4.19 per 100 square feet” and Amazon says $39.97 for 2 rolls of 250 ft at 15” wide. $6.30/100 sq ft is about 1.5 times as expensive - definitely not 4 times. BTW, that video was filmed in June 2018 (ATK is re-releasing lots of older stuff because of Covid) so a price hike is not unusual, especially for Amazon who is getting more and more expensive compared to local prices.

ALWAYS

I have that one and it’s probably the worst plastic wrap on the market

I caught that too. Plastic sheet is typically measured in mil. A typical sheet of copy paper is 0.1 millimeters thick. Stack up six sheets of paper to get an idea of 0.6 millimeters. That would be some heavy-duty plastic wrap.

I mil is not 1 millimeter, it is 1/1000 inch.

SmellyCat go to Google and enter “1 Mil = “ no quotes. The first thing you will see is 1 Mil = 1/1000 of an inch. I measure things precisely for a living.

Agree. The winner is Stretch Tite Freezer version.

I agree. I've been using Stretch Tite for quite a long time and it does the job better than any brand I have ever used!

Buy the winner once, then refill the box with a cheaper brand.

I'd like to know as well

Try Saran wrap,it clings well.There are 2 varieties as one is cheaper and has greater length.

The Kirkland blue box. Hands down. Best cling I've seen outside of the restaurant industry. Its not reviewed here.

if dollar tree wrap was on amazon, it too would be the most expensive.

It’s all a rip off anyway!

@@OGRH Wow, this is really important to you. Please continue. Happy to listen.

@@AnneMariePace well it all started when I was a kid really... there I was walking down the street in the glaring hot sun, heat waves rising off the road blurring the horizon, I hadn’t had a drink of water in days...

@@OGRH What did you do next? I hope some kind soul found you something to quench your thirst.

@@AnneMariePace well I found this cling wrap with the slightest puddle of water in it, bear in mind, The wind hadn’t blown in days! As I reached down to carefully grab the wrap, a breeze whipped up & because the cling wrap was of really crappy quality it didn’t stick to the road... all of the water fell out onto the street and the wrap danced off into the horizon while I stood there watching a dark circle of liquid shrink into oblivion as it steamed into a gaseous state on that steaming 🥵 road, I dropped to my knees unable to cry for lack of tears... 😫

@@AnneMariePace .... “NOOOOOOO!!”, I wailed, as my knees met the searing pavement...

I don't know... I have a lighthearted interest in plastic wrap. Why wouldn't they?

@@acninee LOL

Yeah what was the runner-up

Yes, original Saran Wrap was the best !!! When they discontinued it, I scoured stores for their existing stock and bought it all up, even looking in small stores while vacationing in other states (found it!). I ended up with 36 boxes. Have been using it sparingly for years now and still have about 8 boxes left. It absolutely sealed air out and food lasted much, much longer than the plastic wraps now. Even using 2 layers of the new stuff doesn't do a good job. Remember the Saran Wrap ad with the bear and the fruit pie wrapped in Saran -- the bear could not smell the pie and did not eat it !

Rerun?

That's the date it was published? You can't backdate an upload.

Unfortunately Amazon has become a fairly safe haven for price gougers these days, by making it so difficult to report them. Because of that you can also find a six pack of disinfecting wipes for $180(that would normally cost $15 to $20) there, too. I wouldn't look to Amazon anymore to find fair prices.

@@charlenecastaldo3602 I never buy anything from Amazon. Never have.. abuse to the workers is a problem and secondly trying to make the third party harder to sell.. And then they charge so much because of Amazon Prime? Yeah, it not a good market place.

Missed opportunity to urge ppl to minimize plastic use

It was to test plastic wrap. Why would they test it and then say 'BTW, don't buy plastic wrap' at the end? Everyone can't affird silicone lids and they don't stretch over edges for an air tight seal ir wrap around things. Edited for spell check corrections

This comment is the equivalent of going on a souffle recipe and commenting "why don't you guys just make pizza????"

@@calebangell77 Bingo!

Ellen Hofer because we’d like a world for our children to live in?

good point.

Because those of us at a certain age remember tin foil. It’s now a misnomer like many other products. Examples are Kleenex for tissues, Channel Locks for tongue and groove pliers, Xerox for a photocopy and Saran Wrap for most types of plastic wrap. Besides, tin foil is easier to say than aluminum foil. Two syllables instead of five.

You have to wash those things after every use, so the water and any detergent you use, cancels out some of the benefit to the environment. It's like that with reusable straws too. It might be a slight benefit to wash and reuse, but I think it's pretty negligible. Corporations need to become more responsible and make straws, wraps, etc. biodegradable. It isn't feasible to solve environmental pollution and packed landfills on the consumer end. It has to be done at the corporate and industrial level. If every single individual gave up all non-biodegradable products and recycled everything, it would only account for 1% of landfill use. In other words, big industry and big corporation are filling our landfills and polluting our water/air at a rate of 99 to one. Consumers can't fix that problem. It will have to be done via legislation to regulate industrial amd corporate waste, and fines for not complying.

Interesting, I routinely pick up craft cheeses at a Plains regional chain owned by the unnamed supermarket company. I expect store practices are the same, so the regional chain is most likely using the unknown wrap as well. In my experience, I have not noticed any off-taste in general nor petro-chemical taste in particular to the wrapped cheeses I have eaten. Perhaps the off flavor you are finding is coming from something else?

You mean like you reuse the sheet you cut over and over? I don't think that would be viable. And you can't really wash this stuff, but even if you could, you would be using excess water, which would cancel out most of the benefit of reusable wrap. Plus it probably wouldn't be sanitary to reuse it, especially if it was used to wrap chicken, etc.

But set of plastic bowls with lids they last forever and are reusable......but even that is not acceptable to the eco freaks it's either their way or no way!

Because we're Boomers, not hippies.

@@thisismagacountry1318 Please show us how to pound out the chicken while it is in that plastic thing.

With the Boomers, it's all about them and f*ck everyone else.

@@stevevarholy2011 Because you don't deserve any resources. Life isn't a participation trophy. Imagine you idiots at Omaha Beach on D-Day, crapping your pants and looking for a "safe space". FOH

Steve Varholy - Not all boomers are like that shortsighted, selfish person. I’m in my 60s and drastically minimized our household’s use of disposables and plastics 40 years ago. We also use only non-toxic, natural, and biodegradable cleaners; no pesticides indoors or out; and support organic growers. I’ve also spent a lot of time volunteering on environmental projects in my community. I want my kids and grandkids to have a chance at a decent life; if we don’t make *lots* of big and small changes, that may not be possible for long. Environmental stewardship is *everyone’s* responsibility. It shouldn’t be a political issue, neither should public health be one. And yet . . . 🙄