Kitchen foil

[rainbow2]

I've read a tip in a magazine that you can put kitchen foil (or tin foil as I know it) under your ironing board cover to make your ironing easier and quicker and to save energy. Just wondering what side of the foil should be placed down facing the board itself - shiny or matt side?
I'd have thought the shiny side reflects the heat better,but if so, why do I always put my chicken/turkey/meat onto the matt side with the shiny side facing outwards? Have I been doing it wrong for 30 years??? The rolls are packaged with the shiny bit on the outside. Surely the matt side should be on the outside if you're meant to use the shiny bit next to the meat?

[johnny7]

Your poultry should be on the shiny side. If you are gonna be crazy and put tin foil on your ironing board then put it shiny side up.

[ACtheTROLL]

tinfoil is a bu@@er to get flat

just get a new cover ... look for
something on these lines

http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servl et/Search?storeId=10001&catalogId=1500001501&l angId=-1&searchTerms=METALISED+IRONING+BOARD+C OVER&Submit=GO+%3E

http://www.google.co.uk/products?hl=en&rlz=1T4 GPTB_en-GBGB295GB295&q=METALISED%20IRONING%20B OARD%20COVER&cr=countryUK%7CcountryGB&um=1&ie= UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wf

[Panic Button]

This is a question I asked a while ago.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/How-it-Works/Qu estion461236.html

[ACtheTROLL]

ok - just got off the phone
I have a chum who works at alcan enfield alloy (makers of bacofoil)

the foil is shiny only on one side - because the dull side slightly scatters the heat and thus conducts it better

(if it was shiny on both sides the package would reflect in both directions and cause hotspots on the food).

shiney IN ... the dull collects the heat and transferrs it uniformly - the shiny then keeps the uniform "layer" of heat in.

cold doesn't reflect in the same way - so it doesn't really matter (shiney out goes with the roll) ... but the conduction will help prevent frost burn.

if you put a tenner on a 50p coin and then hold a fag end on it it won't burn (dull side - conduction helps) - good for ironing