How parchment paper is made?

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Today we are going to see how parchment paper is made. The making process has five main stages including removing, soaking, stretching, drying and scraping.
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[@deep2049]

I have always wanted to know this thank you

[@wumingshi]

Great!

[@spinballwhizzkids]

"Moisturise me!"

[@mossystonesubs]

That song is STILL stuck in my head

[@jeromeymascarenhas6044]

I clicked on this video to find this comment and upvote it

[@astrinymris9953]

I *knew* I couldn't be the only person who thought of that. 🤣🤣🤣

[@arundhutidas8850]

Nice 💙

[@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368]

Kind of horrifying yet an efficient use of all parts of the animal. Is all that hairy goop that is scraped off used to make something? Soap perhaps?

[@gkrstini]

why horrifying? hair maybe for brush, but i dont think so, it is all life, it is better to use animal, than to take 1 bit, and throw away rest, similar with apliances, cars, trees, or anything that is around us, people are too greedy, they want only best, that is why we have waste problem

[@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368]

@@gkrstini I think the only thing that isn't used on a tree would be the leaves. But a tree that's harvested for wood has waste, and that waste is burned as fuel or turned into woodchips for pulp. You could make an argument that it takes longer to grow a replacement tree than a replacement animal.

[@EternalShadow1667]

​@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 oh trust me, the leaves are used all right. Compost

[@random89663]

Amazing

[@Ashkiimon]

lime like the juice or stone?

[@micahbush5397]

As in calcium hydroxide, or slaked lime.

[@YourAashique]

🔥🔥🔥

[@blurglide]

So it starts as a full grain / full thickness skin, and is just made paper thin by the stretching and scraping?

[@johnleake5657]

This is how parchment is made. So *"Parchment* is now ready for use", not *"Paper* is now ready for use." Parchment is not paper. _Parchment paper_ is something completely different. It is just paper with a smooth surface and some colour and translucency, paper that has been made to look a little bit like parchment (when it's not used to mean baking paper).

[@ShepardCZ]

No surprise it was so expensive and literacy was low in middle ages. At least text and illuminations may be easily erased from parchment.

[@OfficialJoyski]

I’m here for a Art class ❤

[@kabirdhaka1670]

Those paper maybe used to draw a map. And i saw this in movie.

[@dogzebra2708]

Waste not want not.

[@heksogen4788]

Why is this still produced? Whats the point when we have cotton paper that is better than parchment?

[@ardasuzen]

I'm glad to see Atatürk on a parchment paper :D

[@royalhydra5455]

Why

[@robertrosenbaum4943]

Whoever titled and captioned this video doesn't know what paper is. If something is parchment, it's not paper. If something is paper, it's not parchment.

[@handmadehearts]

Animal skin has been used to make parchment for more than 2000 years.

[@thomascleveland]

#sorry I asked

[@stunningsuman4840]

😠😠😠😠

[@aakashchheda8688]

Is it made my killing animals or what? 😦😳

[@mtnwildernessfamily]

Disgusting, just another way showing how humans use sentient creatures with no regard to life or there demise!

[@Gianmarco-mk1ku]

Bro lives in the forest

[@mtnwildernessfamily]

@@Gianmarco-mk1ku SO....!!! What the difference between the forest and a cave? What the difference from killing sentient creatures if you live in a city, a farm, a forest, or cave. You are killing, tourturing, and taking another sentient creatures life for your own benifit. Comments like yours show how the education systyem has failed you! Try and use some of that grey matter.

[@basimali619]

Plants are alive too… you specieist

[@mtnwildernessfamily]

​@@basimali619 you just showed your educational level which is that of a 3rd-4th grader here in the US. Plants may be alive, but as of what we know right now, plants DO NOT have a complex neurological center that can feel pain, that can form relationships, that have emotions, and the list goes on and on compared to the species Bos and many other species too. GO BACK TO SCHOOL and this time PAY ATTENTION!

[@basimali619]

@@mtnwildernessfamily so making relationships is what makes someone able to not be eaten. Congratulations, you’ve just proven that an educated person in the US has an iq in the single digits, if we take you as an example. Plants literally scream in frequencies we can’t hear. Just because YOU are the one stuck in 3rd grade doesn’t mean we all are. Plants also move their shoots to the best of their abilities, they need sustenance. Butthurt much? This is honestly pathetic.