The Double-cross

I have developed the ability to cook just enough for my wife and I.  Usually, the only time we have left overs is when it is going to be used in another meal.  Case in point, spaghetti sauce in the fridge from Saturday will become chili for dinner tonight.  However, sometimes, even when I cook just enough it is too much.

That is when I must do battle with my kitchen enemy...plastic wrap.  I have never had much luck with plastic wrap.  It sticks to itself and becomes a ball.  It does not rip all that easily, especially if you are doing so one handed.  It is not wide enough to cover a dinner plate.

You try and stretch it across, and it either pulls free or rips.  There is the double layer method covering each half of the plate with a strip, but then tends to make it loose and open in the middle.  During our holiday over the Labour Day long weekend, I was taught the perfect solution for using plastic wrap.  It is so simple I do not know why I did not think of it on my own.

The most simple solution to using plastic wrap is the double-cross.  Run a strip of plastic wrap from the top to the bottom of the plate and seal it tight.  Then run a strip across the plate from side to side and seal it tight.   It took a trained chef to show me such a simple way of covering up left overs.  But I will bet having now read this there are those, that like me, are thinking why did I not see that before.