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How is plastic wrap a good insulator?

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it keeps things cold by not letting the molecules or the coldness escape

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All food goes off due to bacteria, if the food is shrink wrapped, then it will stop a lot of bacteria getting to it.

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It stops the heat from going out of whatever you have wrapped in it

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Bacause material used in it does not allow the heat to pass through it

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Tight wraps and covering decrease the rate of oxidation (or ripening).

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I usually use plastic wrap ( glad wrap) because it isn't as bulky and it's more air tight. So no it doesn't keep meat better than plastic wrap.

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