Beeswax Food Wraps
Equipment
- Iron
- Parchment paper
- Scissors
Ingredients
- Beeswax
- Fabric
Instructions
Method 1:
- Wash and dry your fabric. Cut into desired size with fabric scissors. You may need to iron your fabric so it doesn’t have wrinkles.
- Preheat your oven to warm or 150 degrees F, or the lowest setting possible.
- Cover a cookie sheet with tin foil or parchment paper.
- Place your fabric on your covered cookie sheet.
- Using grated beeswax or beeswax pastilles, sprinkle beeswax on top of your fabric.
- Place your cookie sheet into a preheated 150 degree Fahrenheit oven or the lowest setting your oven has.
- Allow the beeswax to melt. This takes approximately 8 minutes. The beeswax will begin to soak into the fabric.
- Using your paintbrush or silicon spatula, spread the wax evenly over the fabric.
- Hang the beeswax-coated fabric over your kitchen clothesline for a few minutes and allow it to cool.
- Once cooled, your beeswax fabric is ready to be used right away!
Method 2:
- Wash and dry fabric.
- Heat iron on cotton setting.
- Iron the fabric, if needed.
- Iron the fabric, if needed.
- Cut out a piece of fabric slightly larger than the size of wrap you desire.
- Cut out a piece of fabric slightly larger than the size of wrap you desire.
- Place a piece of parchment paper that is bigger than your fabric down on a ironing board. Place the fabric on top.
- Sprinkle grated beeswax (or beeswax pellets) over the fabric evenly.
- Take another piece of parchment paper, larger than the fabric, and place on top of the fabric and beeswax.
- Place warm iron on top of the parchment paper, holding it in place for a few seconds until the beeswax melts into the fabric. Move iron over the fabric until all of the beeswax is melted.
- Pull up parchment paper and see if there are any spots that do not have any beeswax.
- Sprinkle beeswax on bare spots, cover with the parchment paper, and then iron it again.
- Pull the fabric off the parchment paper and hang to dry. It doesn’t take very long for the fabric to dry.
Notes
- I found that spreading the beeswax over the fabric worked best while the cookie sheet was still in the oven. I worked rapidly, as this cools quite quickly.
- Beeswax melts at 147 degrees F and is flammable, so it's highly recommended to heed the low oven temperature!
- Thinner fabrics work better.
- Cover the cookie sheet with tin foil or parchment paper for easier cleanup.
- You will need a place to hang the fabric to cool. I tied a piece of string between two cupboards in the kitchen.
- I found method two much easier.