Author Topic: Silicone cookware.  (Read 3405 times)

NormandyMary

  • Joined Apr 2011
Silicone cookware.
« on: September 16, 2012, 01:34:01 pm »
Anyone use it? I've often been tempted, especially by the cake and loaf "tins". I'd love your views before I commit to buying any.
 
Thanks, Mary.

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Silicone cookware.
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2012, 01:44:00 pm »
Mary I have used cake and loaf tins and also spoons/spatulas and oven glove.  The bakeware is good but for some reason I seem to have gone back to my traditional tins. I don't even know why myself. From experience they seem to do everything that they say.
I particularly love the utensils. I use them every day. You can leave them standing in whatever you are cooking and they don't burn. Previously I had always used wooden spoons but but haven't used those in ages now. If/when my current ones wear out I will definitely buy more.
The one thing I don't like is the oven mitten. Its just too inflexible and you could end up dropping things.
Sally
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • Worcestershire
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Re: Silicone cookware.
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2012, 02:15:19 pm »
I use lots of silicon for soaps and bath stuff and find it wonderful! I did try making a banana loaf in a silicon loaf 'tin' and didn't like the way it bulged sideways though.  Fab for cleaning up after!
Smallholding in Worcestershire, making goats milk soap for www.itsbaaathtime.com and mum to 4 girls,  goats, sheep, chickens, dog, cat and garden snails...

JFDI

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Hertfordshire
Re: Silicone cookware.
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2012, 03:53:36 pm »
OH has bought industrial quantities from Lakeland mostly.  I find that for making individual yorkshire puds I need a metal tray underneath because they get really bendy at high temperature.  Otherwise we love them. 

Don't think we have any loaf tins so I'm still using metal tins for my bread-making

JFDI

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Hertfordshire
Re: Silicone cookware.
« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2012, 03:55:08 pm »
Did I say something?  Plums has gone  :(

HelenVF

  • Joined Apr 2012
Re: Silicone cookware.
« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2012, 04:26:07 pm »
I bought some cupcake ones in a pound shop and they are fab. I have always wondered if the larger tins bulge. Might have to see how they are as there are mixed reviews.

Helen

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Silicone cookware.
« Reply #6 on: September 16, 2012, 11:52:27 pm »
I find the individual bun ones are find but the loaf ones bulge as the sides.  I ended up standing mine in a metal loaf tine which kind of defeats the object.  :o

Ina

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • South Aberdeenshire
Re: Silicone cookware.
« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2012, 09:56:40 am »
I find the silicone sheet useful, to prevent small items from sticking to the baking tray. And I have a couple of silicone egg poaching thingies - look a bit like small bra cups ;) - they let me poach eggs on top of the veg I'm cooking... Very useful if you are cooking for one!

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Silicone cookware.
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2012, 03:46:06 pm »
And I have a couple of silicone egg poaching thingies - look a bit like small bra cups ;) -

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