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silicone cooking utensils?

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  • Olliebeak
    Olliebeak Posts: 3,167 Forumite
    I have a silicon loaf 'tin' - that is absolutely useless due to it having a wavy, ribbed base that EVERYTHING sticks to :mad:.

    Have now gone back to my ordinary non-stick loaf tins but with paper liners from Lakeland - cant beat it for presentation purposes :j/
  • elizabethp
    elizabethp Posts: 76,441 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    If you have a home bargains near you, I picked up a silicone pastry brush for 99p. They had other things as well :)
    Liz xx
  • MrsE_2
    MrsE_2 Posts: 24,162 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I got 3 for 2 in Waitrose (they are John Lewis):j

    I got the egg lifter (pink) £8, the tongs £8 (turquoise) & the spatula (white with pink cupcakes) £7, so all three for £16:T

    I should have got a solid colour spatula as its stained from tomato puree:mad:
  • Olliebeak
    Olliebeak Posts: 3,167 Forumite
    Just a little tip about silicon baking/cooking utensils.

    Those spatulas often come with a wooden handle inserted into the flat silicon bit. When you wash them PLEASE be very careful about drying them.

    I noticed that the handle on mine went black inside spatula bit. When I checked it out, it was wet and going mouldy. Water gets inside them, which I hadn't even thought about, and with them being such a tight fit - it didn't drain back out again. So I thought I'd get one with a plastic handle as well. When I looked at that one, it too had a separate handle/spatula so I guess water would seep inside that as well.

    IF YOU CAN GET ONE, the best is an 'all one piece' spatula - I got one with my Kenwood Food Processor.
  • MrsE_2
    MrsE_2 Posts: 24,162 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Olliebeak wrote: »
    Just a little tip about silicon baking/cooking utensils.

    Those spatulas often come with a wooden handle inserted into the flat silicon bit. When you wash them PLEASE be very careful about drying them.

    I noticed that the handle on mine went black inside spatula bit. When I checked it out, it was wet and going mouldy. Water gets inside them, which I hadn't even thought about, and with them being such a tight fit - it didn't drain back out again. So I thought I'd get one with a plastic handle as well. When I looked at that one, it too had a separate handle/spatula so I guess water would seep inside that as well.

    IF YOU CAN GET ONE, the best is an 'all one piece' spatula - I got one with my Kenwood Food Processor.

    The Waitrose/John Lewis ones are steel or clear hard plastic depending on which utensil.
  • duncan303
    duncan303 Posts: 305 Forumite
    edited 22 July 2009 at 11:09PM
    I'm drunk and a bloke but i feeklthayt a woode spoonm ahas inherant antiseptic qualliyties


    . sorry
  • Olliebeak
    Olliebeak Posts: 3,167 Forumite
    hello duncan

    I don't know - 11.08 pm, a bit tipsy and you're trawling the old-style boards :). Are you really that bored, dear.

    You start mentioning wooden spoons, and one of us will be chasing you with one ;).

    Hope you get a good night's sleep and not too much of a hangover in the morning.

    Nitey nite!
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