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How to clean blue silicon
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Savvy_Sue
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Well, I have used those thin black lining sheets to good effect, but they do tend to get slashed if I don't closely supervise the serving of pizza cooked on them. So when I saw a thick blue silicon sheet I grabbed it quick.
Trouble is, after a couple of weeks of cooking roast potatoes on it, it is now a nasty brown colour. I have tried:
neat washing up liquid
vinegar
lemon juice
water softener (after I saw what it did after I spilled some in a stainless steel sink!)
and I have scrubbed with:
a washing up brush
a yellow net thingy from Lakeland
a green scoury thing, not one with the yellow sponge on as well
The most effective thing seems to be to scrape at it with my thumb-nail, but I want to leave some time for MSE!
It has a smooth surface one side, and a slightly raised small lattice pattern on the other. It's the lattice side which is now brown - did I use it the wrong way up?
I have read some of the previous threads about silicon bakeware but didn't spot anyone having this problem ...
Trouble is, after a couple of weeks of cooking roast potatoes on it, it is now a nasty brown colour. I have tried:
neat washing up liquid
vinegar
lemon juice
water softener (after I saw what it did after I spilled some in a stainless steel sink!)
and I have scrubbed with:
a washing up brush
a yellow net thingy from Lakeland
a green scoury thing, not one with the yellow sponge on as well
The most effective thing seems to be to scrape at it with my thumb-nail, but I want to leave some time for MSE!
It has a smooth surface one side, and a slightly raised small lattice pattern on the other. It's the lattice side which is now brown - did I use it the wrong way up?
I have read some of the previous threads about silicon bakeware but didn't spot anyone having this problem ...
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Well Ive got a brand new toy! Not sure if my steam cleaner would work on it or not, though!Annual Grocery budget 2018 is £1500 pa £125 calendar month £28.84 pw for 3 adults0
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Oh! I bought one of these yesterday ('cos it's blue!!). Haven't used it yet so hope I don't have probs with it. Which way up is the right way??0
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I don't know, but for roast potatoes I've been using it lattice side up.jaybee wrote:Oh! I bought one of these yesterday ('cos it's blue!!). Haven't used it yet so hope I don't have probs with it. Which way up is the right way??
I've been assured that it's pretty inert, and the brown stuff is pretty inert as well, so I needn't worry, just because it looks disgusting doesn't mean it isn't clean ...Signature removed for peace of mind0 -
A bit like my roasting trays, then!!!0
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I'm not alone, then:j !!!0
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Mine ming because ive got no where to store them but in the oven itself and i always forget to take them out if im cooking. Silly me.0
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Welcome to Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy MMMMMMMMXLVI edition.
Quaint household hygiene beliefs on backward planets.....book MMMCXCIV locally known as planet Earth or Terra
..humorous anecdote XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXIII
..and you have to wash oven dishes otherwise they get this brown gunk on them.
..really?
..oh yes!
.. er, why?
..because it has germs in!
..germs? what's germs?
..tiny little nasty things that can make carbon based life forms real sick.
.. CARBON based? That's a myth innit?
..No, honest, they're real.
.. and germs can get them?
..YEP! And you wanna know the real joke..?
..OK... I'll fall for it... tell me...
..At the temperatures they use to roast things at there isn't a germ on the planet that can survive the heat!
.. NO!
..It's true, honest. BUT...
..I knew there's ber a "but". Go on...
..Three miles deep (45.7674959595 ix's deep) in their oceans are some germs that can survive... and nobody knows they are there! How silly is THAT???Hi, I'm a Board Guide on the Old Style and the Consumer Rights boards which means I'm a volunteer to help the boards run smoothly and can move and merge posts there. Board guides are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an inappropriate or illegal post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. It is not part of my role to deal with reportable posts. Any views are mine and are not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.DTFAC: Y.T.D = £5.20 Apr £0.50
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Hey, I never said they were unhygienic! I said I wanted to be sure they weren't greasy and gross! Please don't tell me you don't wash your roasting dishes between each roast?squeaky wrote:Welcome to Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy MMMMMMMMXLVI edition.
Quaint household hygiene beliefs on backward planets...Signature removed for peace of mind0 -
OK I won't. Now all you have to do is work out if I'm telling the truth or not Hi, I'm a Board Guide on the Old Style and the Consumer Rights boards which means I'm a volunteer to help the boards run smoothly and can move and merge posts there. Board guides are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an inappropriate or illegal post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. It is not part of my role to deal with reportable posts. Any views are mine and are not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.DTFAC: Y.T.D = £5.20 Apr £0.50
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I just find it hard to be sure they're not still all greasy and gross! 
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