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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on October 27, 2012, 08:28:13 AM
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Tanuki (1,353 posts) Fri Oct 26, 2012, 10:38 AM
Silicone bakeware question
I have never used silicone bakeware and frankly have always been suspicious about its possible long-term health hazards (for no particular reason except that so many common products end up being hazardous). Do any of you have experience/information? I saw a Bundt pan deeply discounted on sale and I am tempted....
northoftheborder (2,787 posts) Fri Oct 26, 2012, 11:01 AM
1. Are you referring to the non-stick Teflon type coating, or is silicone something else?
I bought some cheap baking pans coated with something (don't remember the brand) and it is already flaking off after just a few months use. So I only use them with an aluminum foil liner underneath the food. Seems most pans are being sold now with some sort of coating. I recommend avoiding all of those. I like my All-Clad (expensive but will last forever) It has a slick finish that cleans up well, even without a non-stick coating. And I love my cast iron skillets for browning meats.
If I'm totally off-base and ignorant of silicone you are asking about, please tell me about it, might be OK.
<<has never used anything but cast iron, copper-bottomed stainless steel, or glassware for cooking.
cbayer (112,663 posts) Fri Oct 26, 2012, 12:16 PM
3. I wanted badly to love them, as they solve some storage and possible breakage issues for me,.....
but I found them impossible to clean properly. I have limited water and it often is not hot. It's just not possible to get them clean under these circumstances.
^^lives aboard a tiny boat, in case one doesn't know; she and her eccentric English husband.
Lucinda (15,792 posts) Fri Oct 26, 2012, 01:49 PM
4. I turn my large muffin cups inside out to clean.
Works really well, but I'm not sure if it would work with the baking dishes.
How does one take a metal cupcake pan and turn it "inside out"?
Or am I missing something here?
cbayer (112,663 posts) Fri Oct 26, 2012, 01:52 PM
5. But are you putting them in a dishwasher or washing by hand?
I just can't adequately get grease/oil off no matter what I do (washing only by hand here).
^^^washes by hand in one of those one-quart white enameled wash-basins, because there's no room for a sink on that tiny little boat.
Lucinda (15,792 posts) Fri Oct 26, 2012, 02:04 PM
7. By hand. And I use Dawn.
I also don't grease/flour the muffin cups. They don't really need it
<<has never greased or floured cupcake pans; that's what those cupcake papers are sold for.
cbayer (112,663 posts) Fri Oct 26, 2012, 02:15 PM
8. It may be because of my lack of hot water most of the time.
We have to run the generator to heat the water, so we often go without it.
I do my wash with salt water, then a fresh water rinse. Works for most everything, but not these.
Lucinda (15,792 posts) Fri Oct 26, 2012, 01:53 PM
6. I have a set of large muffin cups.
They work well, clean up easily, and I don't see any damage to the product (like the old flaking of teflon pans which would lead you to asking questions about safety...)
I am a little weird about them for the same reasons you are, but so far, so good.
And I do hand wash them. I don't want to steam any dishwasher residue onto them, if that makes sense.
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How does one take a metal cupcake pan and turn it "inside out"?
Or am I missing something here?
One can get baking pans made out of silicone, this means that they are flexible and so can be turned inside out. I'm an utter traditionalist, however both of my sisters swear by them for baking buns &c.
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One can get baking pans made out of silicone, this means that they are flexible and so can be turned inside out. I'm an utter traditionalist, however both of my sisters swear by them for baking buns &c.
Okay, I was obviously having a comprehension problem here.
I thought the primitive was referring to "silicone" in the sense of silicone-coated metalware, like Teflon or somesuch.