Pros: Strongest wrap we tested, rips cleanly, excellent adhesion, doesn’t leak.
Cons: Doesn’t handle chicken-pounding as well as we’d like.
If you use only one brand of plastic wrap for the rest of your life, make it Stretch-Tite. This one far exceeded the others in our lab stretch and tension tests, and the only other brand that came close to it in our puncture tests was our runner-up, Signature Kirkland. It adhered automatically to a glass bowl (with some of the wraps, we had to keep pushing down on the corners of the wrap to keep it in place, but this one stuck like glue), and removing and reapplying it was just fine—I could see getting a few uses out of one sheet before needing to discard it.
It passed our leakage test with flying colors, and it was a pleasure to remove it from its package, thanks to its built-in cutter that slid across the wrap like butter to cut it cleanly and evenly. “Perfect dispensing action—comes off the roll easily,” one of our testers, CR’s David Schipper, said. It’s also not a small detail that the wrap (like Kirkland Signature) pulls from the top of the box, and not toward you in the front of it, which made it so much easier to remove. A-plus design.
Spoiler alert: None of these wraps contained all of the chicken cutlet after we pounded it a few times, but this wrap was the best at it. A tiny piece of chicken poked out at the corner after nine or 10 poundings, so we recommend doubling up on the wrap when doing this.
