Once I started waiting the 5 minutes before removing the muffins from the pan after baking, it made much less difference whether I used foil or paper. As someone else said, the warmer the muffin, the more delicate and really warm muffins will tear up as you remove paper. I find that the foil do that much, much less, so if we are going to eat muffins warm, I use foil (or we eat the half in foil first!). I also find the foil ones better for muffins with LOTS of fruit, which tends to be sticky. I always use foil for blueberry muffins, for example. And, I never grease my muffin cups paper or foil. If I am worried about sticking, foil just doesn't and I use them, saving the papers between for the next batch.

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