Butcher paper for smoking

Butcher paper for smoking is unwaxed pink food paper, wide enough to wrap a packer in two layers once the bark has set. On this site's brisket timetable that wrap usually adds about 1 to 2 hours versus foil and leaves a drier crust. For an 18-inch roll of 175 feet, Bryco Goods was $18.99 on 3 November 2026. For more paper per dollar, PerkHomy's 18-inch by 200-foot roll was $14.98 the same day.

Quick picks

1. Bryco Goods, 18 in x 175 ft

   Uncoated and unwaxed, made in the USA. $18.99 on 3 November 2026, sold by Bryco Goods.

2. Bryco Goods, 24 in x 175 ft

   The wide roll for a whole packer. The listing says food grade. $27.99 the same day.

3. PerkHomy, 18 in x 200 ft

   Virgin pulp, unwaxed, uncoated, unbleached. $14.98, sold by PerkHomy Direct.

4. Reynolds Kitchens, 18 in, 225 sq ft

   A slide cutter, food-grade, unwaxed, and a printed ceiling of 300°F. $27.79, sold by Amazon.com.

The 18-inch roll

Bryco Goods, 18 in x 175 ft

For cooks who wrap more than once a year and want an 18-inch roll the listing calls unwaxed and made in the USA.

Pros

• The title is an 18-inch by 175-foot roll, made in the USA.
• The bullets say uncoated and unwaxed, and that the paper is for cooking and smoking meat.
• A bullet says the interior is reinforced for wet strength, which is the claim that matters once the brisket is leaking fat.

Cons

• Eighteen inches means a wide packer needs two overlapping sheets and a seam.
• These bullets do not say food grade, and they do not publish an oven temperature. The 24-inch Bryco listing is the one that says food grade.
• Sold by Bryco Goods. It was $18.99 on 3 November 2026. Read the sold-by line at checkout.

Size on the title	18 in x 175 ft, made in the USA
Unwaxed	Bullets say uncoated and unwaxed
Food-grade line	Not in the bullets read on 3 November 2026
Seller and price	Bryco Goods, $18.99, about 11 cents a foot

Bottom line. This is the roll I would keep next to the foil for flats and most packers. It was $18.99 on 3 November 2026. At about 11 cents a foot, it costs more than PerkHomy (7.5¢) but less than the 24-inch Bryco (16¢) or Reynolds (19¢). The title carries the made-in-USA line PerkHomy leaves off. The food-grade sentence is on the 24-inch Bryco listing, and the 300°F ceiling is on the Reynolds box. A wide packer still wants two sheets, or that 24-inch roll.

Bryco 18-inch roll on Amazon

Wide enough for a packer

Bryco Goods, 24 in x 175 ft

For a whole packer when you want one sheet wide enough to fold over the top without a seam down the middle.

Pros

• Twenty-four inches by 175 feet. A packer can sit across the sheet.
• The bullets say unwaxed, uncoated, and 100 percent food grade, and the title says made in the USA.
• A bullet says the paper is reinforced for wet strength.

Cons

• It was $27.99 on 3 November 2026, about 16 cents a foot, more than the 18-inch Bryco roll.
• One bullet says "24 wax paper" and another says the roll is unwaxed and uncoated. The title is pink butcher paper. Trust the unwaxed line, and look at the roll when it arrives.
• A 24-inch roll is clumsier when the cook is ribs or wings.

Size on the title	24 in x 175 ft, made in the USA
Unwaxed	Bullets say unwaxed and uncoated
Food-grade line	Bullets say 100 percent food grade
Seller and price	Bryco Goods, $27.99, about 16 cents a foot

Bottom line. Buy the 24-inch roll when the packer is the cook and you are tired of overlapping two 18-inch sheets. It was $27.99 on 3 November 2026, about 16 cents a foot, more than the 18-inch Bryco at about 11 cents and more than PerkHomy at about 7.5. You get the width, the made-in-USA line, and a food-grade claim the 18-inch Bryco bullets leave off. Reynolds is the one with a cutter and a printed 300°F, at about 19 cents a foot and a shorter roll. The title is pink butcher paper. One bullet also says wax paper, and the next says the roll is unwaxed. Read both.

Bryco 24-inch roll on Amazon

Most paper per dollar

PerkHomy, 18 in x 200 ft

For the longest 18-inch roll on this page, when the listing's unwaxed and uncoated lines are enough and you do not need a made-in-USA claim.

Pros

• Eighteen inches by 200 feet. The listing's unit count is 300 square feet.
• The bullets say virgin pulp, unwaxed, uncoated, unbleached, and food-safe.
• It was $14.98 on 3 November 2026, about 7.5 cents a foot, sold by PerkHomy Direct.

Cons

• No made-in-USA line and no published oven temperature on the bullets.
• The title says both peach and pink. That is the color of this one roll, and it is still a reason to read the unwaxed line before you buy.
• Eighteen inches still means a seam on a wide packer.

Size on the title	18 in x 200 ft, 300 sq ft unit count
Unwaxed	Bullets say unwaxed, uncoated, and unbleached
Food-safe line	Bullets say food-safe. They do not say a temperature
Seller and price	PerkHomy Direct, $14.98, about 7.5 cents a foot

Bottom line. This is the value roll if you wrap often and you can store 200 feet dry. It was $14.98 on 3 November 2026, about 7.5 cents a foot, cheaper per foot than either Bryco roll and cheaper than the Reynolds box at about 19 cents. The listing's unit count is 300 square feet. It lacks the made-in-USA claim both Bryco titles carry, and it has no printed temperature the way the Reynolds box does.

PerkHomy 18-inch roll on Amazon

Cutter and a printed temperature

Reynolds Kitchens, 18 in, 225 sq ft

For a box with a slide cutter, when you want the listing itself to say food-grade and to name a temperature.

Pros

• The title is an 18-inch roll, 225 square feet, with a slide cutter in the box.
• The bullets say unwaxed, unbleached, food-grade, added wet strength, and oven-safe up to 300°F.
• Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. It was $27.79 on 3 November 2026.

Cons

• About 19 cents a foot once you divide 225 square feet by the 18-inch width. That is the expensive end of this page.
• The same listing said it usually ships within 1 to 4 weeks.
• 300°F is the ceiling Reynolds printed. A pit you run hotter than that is outside the line on the box.

Size on the title	18 in, 225 sq ft, slide cutter
Length from those numbers	225 sq ft divided by 18 in is 150 ft
Unwaxed and temperature	Unwaxed, unbleached, food-grade, up to 300°F
Seller and price	Amazon.com, $27.79, about 19 cents a foot

Bottom line. Buy it when the cutter and the 300°F line are why you are shopping, and you can live with the ship window that was on the page. It was $27.79 on 3 November 2026, sold by Amazon.com. Dividing 225 square feet by the 18-inch width is 150 feet, about 19 cents a foot, the expensive end next to PerkHomy at about 7.5 cents and the 18-inch Bryco at about 11. What you pay for is the slide cutter, the food-grade line, the 300°F ceiling, and a box sold by Amazon. The Bryco rolls are longer, at a lower price per foot, and they do not name a temperature.

Reynolds butcher paper on Amazon

Comparison

Prices are the amounts on each Amazon listing on 3 November 2026. A later price can move. Width and length are the ones in the title. The Reynolds length is 225 square feet divided by the 18-inch width, which is 150 feet. The cents per foot use that length.

Roll	Size	Unwaxed on the listing	Price that day
Bryco Goods	18 in x 175 ft	Uncoated and unwaxed	$18.99, about 11¢/ft, sold by Bryco Goods
Bryco Goods	24 in x 175 ft	Unwaxed and uncoated. One bullet also says wax paper	$27.99, about 16¢/ft, sold by Bryco Goods
PerkHomy	18 in x 200 ft	Unwaxed, uncoated, unbleached	$14.98, about 7.5¢/ft, sold by PerkHomy Direct
Reynolds Kitchens	18 in, 225 sq ft (150 ft)	Unwaxed, unbleached, up to 300°F	$27.79, about 19¢/ft, sold by Amazon.com

How the list was chosen

These four are single rolls whose titles say pink butcher paper for a smoker or for smoking meat, each with an unwaxed or uncoated line in its own bullets. I read the pages on 3 November 2026. Bryco's 18-inch roll is the everyday USA roll. Bryco's 24-inch roll is the wide sheet, and it is the Bryco listing that says food grade. PerkHomy is the 200-foot roll at the lowest price of the four. Reynolds is the box with a cutter and a printed temperature.

I left out a smaller Reynolds listing that had no featured offer that day, multi-packs, and precut squares. An 18-inch square is too short to go around a packer. I haven't timed or tear-tested these rolls on my pit yet, so the claims here, like wet strength or 300°F, are what each listing says. A number from a cook on my pit would still have to follow the testing methodology.

What to look for

Buy unwaxed, uncoated paper that the listing says is for cooking or smoking meat. Food-grade, or the maker's "food-safe," belongs in the same sentence. Pink is the color pit cooks ask for. Peach, on a title that also says pink, is that same paper. The color is not the safety claim. A roll that does not say unwaxed is a different product, even when the photo is pink.

Width is the practical choice. Eighteen inches wraps ribs, a pork butt, a flat, and most packers if you overlap two sheets. Twenty-four inches is the roll that lets a whole packer lie across one sheet. Length is how many cooks are in the package. A 175-foot roll is a long time of briskets if you wrap a few a year. A 225-square-foot box is the one you buy for the cutter, not because it is the most paper.

Skip freezer paper. The shiny side is plastic, and it belongs in the freezer. Skip parchment for this wrap. It is a thinner oven sheet, and it is not the timetable on butcher paper vs foil. Skip craft or shipping rolls too. If the listing never says food, cooking, or smoking, it doesn't belong on a brisket.

Store the roll dry, inside, off the floor. Wet paper tears when you lift a 14-pound brisket. A greasy sheet from the last cook is done. Tear a new one.

Pink butcher paper

Pink butcher paper is breathable. It blocks some of the pit's drying wind, so a packer cooks faster than it does naked, and it lets steam out, so the bark stays drier than it does in foil. On this site's timetable it usually adds about 1 to 2 hours versus foil for a 12 to 15 pound packer at 225°F. The brisket calculator uses the foil window when wrap is on. If the roll in your hand is paper, start earlier than that clock.

The crust you are protecting is the brisket rub. Wrap only after that crust is dark. The moment is when to wrap brisket.

Foil

Foil is a vapor barrier. Moisture that would have cooled the stall stays in the packet, the temperature climbs, and the bark steams. On a 12 to 15 pound packer at 225°F, the foil wrap at the stall is the 12 to 14 hour cook. It is already in the kitchen. Use it when the clock is the problem and you can live with a softer crust. The full trade is butcher paper vs foil.

Parchment

Parchment is the thin sheet for a sheet pan. It is useful in the oven, and it is the wrong shape and the wrong timetable for a packer. A brisket wrap wants a sheet you can get around the meat twice, with the seams underneath. Parchment boxes are not that roll. If the only paper in the kitchen is parchment, use foil for this cook and buy a pink roll before the next one.

Freezer paper

Freezer paper has a plastic coating on the shiny side. That coating is for the freezer. On a hot packer it can melt into the bark. The roll looks like butcher paper if you only see the color. Read the box. If it says freezer, leave it there. The fuel notes on fuel and consumables make the same split.

How to wrap a brisket

Wait until the bark is dark and set, and the flat has been in the stall. That is usually around 160 to 170°F, not the first time the graph goes flat near 150°F. A pale brisket in any wrap steams. The order is on when to wrap brisket. The same pause on a pellet grill is the same evaporation, and the cook around it is how to smoke a brisket on a pellet grill.

Tear paper longer than the packer, with room to overlap. On an 18-inch roll, lay two sheets side by side so a wide brisket is not hanging off one edge, then put a second layer on top. On a 24-inch roll, one sheet may be wide enough, and you still want two layers of thickness. Two layers, seams down, so the fat does not soak through the fold and drip on the fire.

Wrap it tight. A loose tent is a different, leakier cook, and the stall keeps going. Tuck the ends under the meat. Leave the probe in the thickest part of the flat. You can probe through the paper later. Unwrapping to check, then wrapping a second time, softens the crust.

Put it back on the grate until the flat probes tender, around 203°F, in the 200 to 205°F window. The feel is brisket internal temp. Then rest at least two hours, center at or above 140°F, which is how long to rest brisket. The paper can stay on for that hold. If you want the bark drier at the slice, open the wrap for the last part of the rest.

The steps around the wrap, from the trim to the slice, are how to smoke a brisket. The hours for the weight on the sticker are the brisket calculator. Paper means you start earlier than the foil switch on that tool.