silicone loaf tin ok for bread?

TRYINGTOSWIM

I have a breadmaker but gave up using it ages ago as the size of the loaves is just too small for my family. I would need about 2 or 3 a day(include bread for 5 packed lunches) but I do miss the taste of proper bread.
my reckoning is that if I made it by hand I could bake several loaves at once.
are silicone loaf tins any good for bread? I find them fine for cakes but not used for bread before.

stiltwalker

I use one for my bread and find the sides bow out a bit but does the job.

ab7167

I've never used silicone ones, I bought a couple of the heavy duty lakeland ones, they really do a good job.

but I would definitley recommend you get an electric whisk with dough hooks, I can do dough in about 10 minutes flat for 2 loaves of bread with mine. That's using 1kg of flour and produces 2 800g loaves. It was about £14 from sainsburys and makes really light work of it. I'll never be going back to a bread machine :-)

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/sol/shop/appliances/small_kitchen_appliances/mixers/113161880_sainsburys_hand_mixer.html?Affiliate_ID=googlesp

something like this. Mine is the branded Rachel Allen one, but I imagine they are all much of a muchness...

ceridwen

Another user of the Lakeland "thicker" silicon loaf tins.

I find the shape of the loaves is more "relaxed" than when I do them in conventional breadbaking tins - but that doesnt bother me.

I DO put those filled loaf tins to bake on baking trays - rather than direct onto my oven shelves. I tend to feel that means a solid "base" to the loaf tins that way - but, having not tried without doing that, don't know if it would really make a difference iyswim.

Its nice to be able to just tip the loaves straight out of the tins with no problem at all now..

Farway

As others, I find the sides of a silicone "tin" bow out. In fact I am still on the lookout for a silicone one that will fit inside my metal ones, sort of reusable liner really, no luck so far though

Diflower

Farway wrote: »

As others, I find the sides of a silicone "tin" bow out. In fact I am still on the lookout for a silicone one that will fit inside my metal ones, sort of reusable liner really, no luck so far though

I must have hit lucky, the silicone loaf one I bought fits exactly in my 2lb metal tin. It's brilliant, instead of all that lining etc for fruit cake and so on:)
Now I know you'll ask me where it came from, and I'm trying to remember...pretty sure it was Tesco but may have been Asda.