Baking trays and food sticking!

EmptyPockets

Do any of you have any tried and tested ways to stop food from sticking to baking trays/sheets..?

I have three baking trays, two of them have seen better days, one of them is a fairly new 'non-stick' tray, although I think they forgot to add the non-stick to it! Whenever I do any baking it ends up turning into a nightmare to actually get the food off. I butter or grease the trays before putting the food on, but this never seems to make any difference. I always find myself having to carve my scones/biscuits etc off of the tray :mad:

Have tried using baking parchment/paper on the tray but I've never really rated the stuff as the food then just sticks to that and I have to spend hours pulling it off in little shreds.

Can't really afford to keep going out buying expensive new trays so have to make do with the ones I've got.

Any tips or tricks please?!

Penelope_Penguin

EmptyPockets wrote: »

Have tried using baking parchment/paper on the tray but I've never really rated the stuff as the food then just sticks to that and I have to spend hours pulling it off in little shreds.

Any tips or tricks please?!

Invest in some magic carpet liner Even brownies and flapjack just slide off that.

EmptyPockets

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Invest in some magic carpet liner Even brownies and flapjack just slide off that.

Magic carpet liner???

EmptyPockets

Ooh, just had a look at that and it sounds great :T

camelot1001

I would second the liner. I have a few that I use and have never had anything stick to them. They are easy to clean (just wipe over) and last for ages.

flea72

dont ever wash the tin

they just need a quick wipe over with a bit of kitchen roll. if you find bits of food have stuck, then just put the tin in a very hot oven, until you have cremated the crumbs, and then just wipe clean

the silcone baking liners are good (try poundland or aldi for cheap ones), but they can cause tins that have lost their nonstick coating, to go rusty

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gailey_2

second silicone just got 2 silicone cake tins 2 for 8quid asda and flapjacks didnet stick easy to clean. My mates giving me hers still new in pack as she never uses them so soon have silcone bread tin and muffin trays plus silcone cake cases meant to be good.

ALIBOBSY

I also find taking food off whilst still hot helps as well. This does means biscuits tend to be a bit bendy, so use someting to lift them off-I have a long flat quite wide palatte knife I use for this (amongst a million other kitchen jobs-would be lost without it). They will harden on cooling.

I second the magic tray liner stuff, I have some cut to size for my cake tins. But I do use greaseproof paper for brownies and traybakes. I line the tin so it comes up the sides, so when cooked these are like handles to lift the whole thing out. I then cut it on the paper and lift off-again my trusty palette knife slides each piece out beautifully.

ali x

BTW I also have sillicone loaf tins, muffin tins and fairy cake/muffin liners. I love them all they are fab.

ubamother

lakeland do a cake-release that is brilliant - I bake at least once a week and bought this over a year ago and it is still going strong.

jcr16

i use the baking liners. they are fantastic. i used to always buy them from lakeland. but recently poundland started stocking them. nothing sticks to them. i use them for kievs, pizza's, sausage roll's, cookies and even if i'm making nigella lawsons hokey pokey in the fridge. they are fantastic.

Horseunderwater

If a recipe has fat and sugar in it, it will more than lilkely stick to a tray or tin. No matter what. If yours are rusty it might be worth looking at car boots for enamelled ones, often black and if something happens to stick, the surface will not scrape off like cheaper nasty non stick ones. Solid marg using a bit of baking parchment spread over surface then sprinkled with a dusting of flour all over, will give you a natural lining for things like a victoria sandwich cake. I agree about the silicone ones, but even they need a little marg to lub them. If using the cake tins for a cake you'll need to use a baking sheet for support as they do dip down a little if put onto the wire shelf direct.(silicone ones I mean)
Frances