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    Best Plastic Wrap

    We tested eight brands of plastic wrap, including Kirkland Signature, Saran Wrap, and Stretch-Tite. One got gold stars across the board, but many more flunked.

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    Stretch-Tite, Great Value, Glad plastic wraps with salad bowl covered with plastic wrap
    Not all plastic wraps are the same—four of the eight brands we tested were the strongest and least likely to leak.
    Photos: Consumer Reports, Getty Images

    Two of my childhood friends were identical twins. Once your eyes settled on their subtle, but different, facial features, you could no longer imagine confusing one twin with the other. That’s how we felt after spending hours testing eight popular brands of plastic wrap in our labs. They may all purport to do the same thing, but some brands have as much in common as a dolphin does with a dog.

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    We put these wraps through the wringer, using our lab equipment to test how far they stretch and how easily they puncture. We tore off more than 100 sheets of wrap (and we’re not going to hold back on which wraps were impossible to remove from their rolls). We tested how well they contain leaks, and even wrapped chicken cutlets in plastic wraps and gave them a good pounding to see which could contain food under high-pressure situations (spoiler alert: chicken cutlet particles flew across our lab on more than one occasion). 

    One plastic wrap on this list is the only one you’ll ever need. There are also a few we’d like to never see again in our kitchens or lives (we’re very dramatic when it comes to everyday essentials). Here are the best and the worst plastic wraps we tested.

    CR put plastic wraps through the wringer in our labs, using our tools to test their strength/tension and how easily they punctured. We also recruited several staffers to rip sheets of wrap from their packaging and tested how easily they leaked.

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    Lisa Fogarty

    Lisa Fogarty is a senior multimedia content creator at Consumer Reports. She studied journalism at Columbia University and has written numerous health, parenting, fitness, and wellness articles for The New York Times, Psychology Today, Vogue, and NPR. Lisa is passionate about mental health and is a co-creator of The Hunger Trap Podcast, which focuses on eating disorders. In her spare time she surfs, plays the guitar, and kickboxes. Follow her on X: @lisacfogarty