I learned a trick from Jacques Pepin's show about cutting parchment to fit a round pain. Little difficult to explain, but take a sheet of parchment. Fold two sides together to make a rectangle. Fold the 2 short sides together to make a smaller rectangle.You will have 2 folded sides and 2 open sides. Now starting folding the folded sides together to form a triangle, and continue until it is as narrow as you can fold it. Put the tip of the parchment triangle at the middle of your pan, and cut the open (wide) end of the triangle at the rim of the pan. Open up the parchment triangle and you have an almost perfect circle to fit in the bottom of the pan. Love me some parchment, can't survive in the kitchen without it. I use it in the freezer to separate portions of meat, burgers, fish, etc. so they don't freeze into a block, and I can take out one portion at a time. Reuse it until it gets brown and crispy, only then throw it out.

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