Silicone cookware

Js_Other_Half

Edinburghlass wrote:

Thanks Js_other_half!

Sshh but I had a look at Matalan's home page and signed up there to be a mystery shopper so maybe I can go and buy some of this fancy cookware and get paid for doing so!

Nice idea!

KK

I haven't yet used silicon bakeware as in my local kitchenshop it is very expensive, but Ihave discovered the joys of bake o glide (as chapmpioned by Nigella Lawson) and it is FANTASTIC. I put a sheet in the bottom of my grill pan and just run it under the tap, for lining cake tins it is amazing, I cook sausages on it in the oven and they don't stick and I use it for biscuits etc. It is about 8 per metre mail order but is so good, I bought some more. You can cut it to the size of your baking tins and stuff just slides off. You then just rinse it in the washing up water. You can also apparently put it in the dishwasher. I came back the other day and my husband had hung all mine out on the line to dry! Even better is that you can line your frying pan with it and fry an egg with no oil. As you can tell I love this stuff. My best discovery for ages.

Chris25

trafalgar wrote:

thanks everyone for your experiences

I spotted them in Makro and they are the reinforced wire rim ones,I just couldn't believe they didn't make the baking smell rubbery:D

shall go and get some and give it a whirl,thanks

I saw those in Makromail and I'm pretty sure mine are the same - maroon colour but can't remember the make :rolleyes: You also get a recipe under the cardboard cover.

No, Traf, they don't make the cakes smell rubbery. Good luck and happy baking

Chris25

KK wrote:

I haven't yet used silicon bakeware as in my local kitchenshop it is very expensive, but Ihave discovered the joys of bake o glide (as chapmpioned by Nigella Lawson) and it is FANTASTIC. I put a sheet in the bottom of my grill pan and just run it under the tap, for lining cake tins it is amazing, I cook sausages on it in the oven and they don't stick and I use it for biscuits etc. It is about 8 per metre mail order but is so good, I bought some more. You can cut it to the size of your baking tins and stuff just slides off. You then just rinse it in the washing up water. You can also apparently put it in the dishwasher. I came back the other day and my husband had hung all mine out on the line to dry! Even better is that you can line your frying pan with it and fry an egg with no oil. As you can tell I love this stuff. My best discovery for ages.

Waitrose and Sainsbury do a Teflon liner for £2.99ish which you can cut to fit your pans/tins and you can even get an inferior quality one in Poundland (but OK for tins you don't regularly use) but I find the best ones are from Lakeland.:)

Str4berr3

Chris25 wrote:

Waitrose and Sainsbury do a Teflon liner for £2.99ish which you can cut to fit your pans/tins and you can even get an inferior quality one in Poundland (but OK for tins you don't regularly use) but I find the best ones are from Lakeland.:)

!!!!!!! I just bought that one in eaby for over a fiver inc postage! thses linners are abit flimmsier then ii thought.
Got silicone loaf mould, mini muffin, and medium muffin tin too, i think it is freat invention. should of thought of this long a ago.
Quite expensive , i got my from amazon between 5 to 7 Pounds -i think. Does any one anywhere does it cheaper?

bargainaddict

I've got some cheaper ones from Matalan and from France where silicone bakeware is popular (and cheaper),and also some of the more expensive ones with the reinforced top. Think they are made by tefal. All of it good, especialy for yorkshires. I use a round one every day for general cooking like fishfingers etc. They all fold up in a small place as well.

Bossyboots

The reinforced ones are Tefal.

I love my silicon bakeware. We now get toad in the hole with batter, rather than the batter remaing stuck in the pan. Perfect Yorkshire puddings every time. My cakes seem to rise much better in them as well.

BobRobUK

Shouldn't we be wary of the chemicals these products contain ?, at such high temperatures you don't know what is being released into your food.

Bob.

Chris25

Str4berr3 wrote:

!!!!!!! I just bought that one in eaby for over a fiver inc postage! thses linners are abit flimmsier then ii thought.
Got silicone loaf mould, mini muffin, and medium muffin tin too, i think it is freat invention. should of thought of this long a ago.
Quite expensive , i got my from amazon between 5 to 7 Pounds -i think. Does any one anywhere does it cheaper?

Just looked in the Lakeland Spring 2005 kitchen catalogue (p119) and the liners are
10x20 ins £4.50
13x39 ins £8.50
4x cake tin circles - 1 each of 7,8,9 and 12 ins diameter £8.95 per set

Js_Other_Half

Edinburghlass

Checked in Matalan this evening, the only silicon cookware they had in my local one was the lasgane dish. It was £8, but Matalan are running the 20% off everything this weekend, so it would be £6.40...

hth