Tried those reusable beeswax wraps everyone raves about and my sandwich tasted like a candle

I swapped out plastic wrap for beeswax wraps on my lunch last Tuesday and somehow the peanut butter picked up a weird waxy scent. Has anyone else had their food taste off with these things or did I just get a bad batch?

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gray_roberts2d ago

and yeah that's exactly what happened to me lmao i thought i was going crazy but my cheese literally tasted like i'd been storing it in a candle shop. i think the heat from my lunch bag made the wax melt a little and it just absorbed right into everything, especially anything with fat in it like peanut butter or cheese. i tried washing mine with cold water and soap to see if that helped but honestly it just made them smell like wet beeswax, which is somehow worse. pretty sure the whole "reusable" thing is just a scam to make us all smell like a farmers market.

joseph_murray82d ago

Hold up, I actually don't think it's the wax melting. Beeswax has a pretty high melting point, way higher than what a lunch bag would get to. More likely it's just the wax releasing its natural smell in the heat, which is still annoying and gets into food for sure. The cold water wash probably just sealed the scent in instead of rinsing it off.