Do you ever use waxed paper?

Since the introduction of aluminium foil and cling film (Saran wrap?), I hardly ever have a use for waxed paper; in fact, I don't remember when I last bought any! Waxed paper should only be used to keep moisture in (or out) of things. The wax will melt if it is used for warm or hot things, of course. Other uses? I have used (thick) waxed paper in the past to protect the table from children's painting sessions, to cover up vomit and pet's messes (while a bucket is fetched), to mend a broken window, to make a simple pinhole camera (when put inside a dark box with a hole in one end), to make a very serviceable cup or bowl and water bombs (if you know how to make a printer's paper cap or an origami box) and to make self-destructing hot air balloons (when corn flakes used to come in thin wax paper inners). I have even used waxed paper and thin aluminium or lead foil to construct a home-made capacitor when I made a crystal radio entirely from common materials, complete with a piece of coke as the crystal (and it worked!).

Believe it or not, I actually use it to line my cake pans or cookie sheet. I've never had a problem with it and it's a lot cheaper than parchment paper. I also use it to wrap potatoes while in the microwave. I'll wet a paper towel, wrap the potato and then loosely wrap it in the wax paper. If I'm baking a pie and I make my own pie crust, I'll turn the dough out on the wax paper, lay another piece on top and roll it out. I can turn it, flip it and never have to scrape the counter and it's a lot easier to move to the pie pan. I'm curious at what kind of responses you're going to get. I'm sure people use it for a lot of other things and I'd like to know what they are. Thanks for a simple but interesting topic.

I used to use wax paper when I was young to rub on my metal slide to make it faster for me to slide on. For years I've been using wax paper on my pans in the oven to keep them from burning but then one day it just about caught on fire and learned its not supposed to be put in the oven and have since been using parchment paper.

I only know of one use, which is in baking. Although, of course we can use it for wrapping anything, too, but for what its made for -- i only know about the baking part.

My sister uses it all the time to bake, she think its parchment paper. I rarely use wax paper myself. I usually use it when Im storing or freezing items such as cookies or layers of items.

ummm.. I am not sure whether the paper I use to use for base baking is waxed paper. But the paper (which I always use for bakin) is kind of bit glossy smooth - and has greyish colour. Isn't it? I always use it for baking macaroons since the macaroons always stick to my baking pan :D And there's nothing seems melting on it , such as wax etc.

I bought some waxed paper ages ago but I cannot remember why. I used to use it for wrapping sandwiches when the kids were little but that was before cling wrap. I use cling wrap to wrap and cover most everything and I have this waxed paper sitting uselessly in the drawer.