Why Isn't Cling Wrap as Good as It Used to Be?
"Back in my day, cling wrap was so much better!" Have you ever wondered why cling wrap doesn't seem to work as well as you remember it to? Hosted by: ...
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[♪ INTRO] Odds are, you probably have a roll of cling wrap tucked away in a kitchen drawer, ready for wrapping up your leftovers. For a lot of people, it’s a kitchen staple. But if you’ve been buying the stuff for years, you might’ve thought that it just doesn’t work as well as it used to. And for once, you’re not imagining it. The gold standard for cling wrap used to be the Saran Wrap brand, made by the company SC Johnson. But around the early 2000s, the company actually changed their formula to a version that was less sticky and generally less effective. Thankfully, they at least had a good reason for it. Saran Wrap was originally made out of a chemical called polyvinylidene chloride, or PVDC. It was actually discovered by accident by a chemist at another company, Dow Chemical,...
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[♪ INTRO] Odds are, you probably have a roll of cling wrap tucked away in a kitchen drawer, ready for wrapping up your leftovers. For a lot of people, it’s a kitchen staple. But if you’ve been buying the stuff for years, you might’ve thought that it just doesn’t work as well as it used to. And for once, you’re not imagining it. The gold standard for cling wrap used to be the Saran Wrap brand, made by the company SC Johnson. But around the early 2000s, the company actually changed their formula to a version that was less sticky and generally less effective. Thankfully, they at least had a good reason for it. Saran Wrap was originally made out of a chemical called polyvinylidene chloride, or PVDC. It was actually discovered by accident by a chemist at another company, Dow Chemical,...
