‘BEE GLAD’, Collingwood CWA style.
Plastic food wrap is one of the single use plastic products we want to avoid using.
Discarded plastic is an environmental disaster. Here’s a solution to one commonly used plastic.
We trialled two versions of making beeswax coated food wrap using only grated bees wax on cotton fabric.
You need:
Grated beeswax (or beeswax pellets)
Cotton fabric cut into shapes of choice (pinking shears are handy)
Baking tray
Baking paper.
- Version using an iron:
- place the fabric on baking paper (which is on newspaper … which is on the ironing board.)
- Scatter grated wax over the fabric
- Place another sheet of baking paper over the top of the fabric
- Iron until the wax melts and press until evenly covered.
- Version using the oven:
- Pre-heat to 200C
- line oven tray with baking paper (Might be good to line with foil, then place paper there.)
- place fabric on baking paper.
- scatter grated bees wax on fabric
- bake for a few minutes until wax is melted (make sure wax does not burn.)
– Do sheets one by one. They will cool quickly once removed from oven.
We found the oven method gave a more even distribution of wax
There are many methods described and demonstrated on You Tube and Pinterest.
Google ‘make beeswax food wrap’ and see what works best for you.
