Q&A for How to Find a Substitute for a Wire Cooling Rack (Baking)

Wax paper is made with wax and can melt or even ignite in the oven. Parchment paper is made from paper and is oven safe.

If you are cooking it fresh, leave them in the oven at a lower temperature once they're done so as to not cook them further, but retain the heat and not get soggy.

If the aluminium pan is 9x13, then yes. But you might have to bake it a little longer.

You could keep the turkey in the pan and put the pan on the two nearest burners of the stove.

It is a good idea because it makes it easier to cool. However, you could always use a cool oven rack and leave the door open.

You can create a rack out of rolled up pieces of tin foil, open-style cookie cutters, or even place a small over rack from something like a toaster oven inside of a roasting pan to improvise.

You can transfer the cake to a cool, flat surface like a plate, cutting board, or cool baking sheet to let it cool down.

If you have something like a toaster oven you could take the rack out of that to use. You could also try making a rack out of rolled up pieces of tin foil.

That wouldn't be a good idea. Ink and other chemicals are created to make newspapers, and laying hot cookies on one to cool may result in the ink melting and sticking onto the cookies. Using clean, ink-free paper would work best.