We have discovered the solution.
Working on a new cookbook with author Rivky Kleiman has taught me a lot. Every time we get together for a photoshoot I learn new techniques and delicious recipes. One day, Rivky showed up with a gift: nail polish! One blue bottle and one red bottle.
Apparently, she wasn’t impressed with my method of labeling my sheet pans. I didn’t argue with her, she had the perfect solution and I happily took a few moments to paint all my pans. Now we have no mix ups and meat and milk is clear as day. Or as blue and red.
Press here for a link to a red polish and here for a link to a blue one.
Also, once on the topic of sheet pans: did you know the difference between the big sheet and the half sheets?
Here’s an image that shows the difference:
Basically, a big sheet will fill the entire oven rack giving you much more room to work with (and feed a large family). Worth investing in.
Love the idea. I’m just wondering if the nail polish will melt
In the oven or let out unhealthy fumes .
The local judaica stores sell stickers that say meat, dairy, pareve in red, blue and green. They have oven proof ones that are safe till 450 degrees.
I’ve been doing the nail polish thing all my life and so does my mom!!! Dollar stores sell all colors of nail polish, even green for parve!!
Mine are actually embossed meat and dairy, but I couldn’t see the labeling when they were stacked in the cabinet. The polish turned black in the oven- so only my meat ones are labeled- a line on the rim of the part that show when I open the cabinet, so I see it at a glance.
Check out this post: https://betweencarpools.com/labeling-obsession-stop-two-baking-sheet-storage/
Great idea Renee’, for those who have the space for separate slots….and knowing myself, I would be checking each time anyways, just in case it was put in the wrong slot…
Been doing this for a long as I’ve been cooking! Nail polish has never turned black on me. Also good for glass pot covers that look similar or the same… And pesach VS. Chometz.