Silicone baking molds: how to use

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Homemade cakes are a sign of well-being in the family. Fresh muffins, baked with your own hands in a home oven from real products, can cheer you up and give you comfort. Silicone baking molds are of interest to almost every hostess who is fond of this type of cooking. Silicone products have recently entered our kitchens.

Maybe it's better to keep baking the old fashioned way?

Older generation of housewives happens to be very biased towards such forms, showing distrust. They argue that solid Teflon or tin molds are much safer, but here is some kind of silicone and there is no guarantee that it will not melt in the oven. Yes, and many are simply more accustomed to using old and well-known baking tools. Another part of the housewives is sure that silicone baking molds are modern and safe products, and besides, they are also very convenient to use. Such housewives will not exchange these molds for other containersunder what conditions. There is also a third part, this category of lovers of pampering the family with delicious pastries is eyeing this product, wants to buy it, but they begin to be overcome by all sorts of doubts about the correctness of their intentions.

True answers to questions about using silicone in baking

Are silicone bakeware harmful? What are they like? How to use these products at home? Let's start looking at these issues right now.

Good things first

• Let's start with the fact that baking in silicone molds in the oven turns out to be high and perfectly baked from the inside. This is partly, of course, due to the variety of designs of these devices, but partly due to the fact that when heated, silicone does not begin to cruelly fry a cake or pie. Heat escapes inside, baking the cooked product.
• There is a great opportunity to use such forms not only for baking, but they can also be adapted for freezing. In such dishes, jellied meat, various types of jelly, homemade ice cream are well obtained. Also, silicone baking molds can be placed in the oven directly from the refrigerator. The temperature corridor maintained by these products averages from -45 to +240 degrees.
• You can bake not only in the oven, these forms will cope with the task of baking when using a microwave and gas oven.
• This material does not absorb odors at all. Meat and fishcan be prepared in the same form in which you bake a cake.

And then again about the good

There are a lot of rumors and disputes about harmfulness. In principle, the silicone molds themselves are not harmful. But again, it depends on the integrity of the manufacturer. If you purchase kits from a well-known and well-established brand, you will not be in trouble. Therefore, in order not to be disappointed in the quality and safety of silicone baking molds, beware of fakes that have always been and will always be. It is fakes that damage the reputation of bona fide manufacturers, and can also harm the he alth of consumers.

Molds are made from food grade silicone. The special characteristics of this type of material prevent reaction with hot metal objects, heated oil, dough. Even breast implants are made from such pure silicone. Therefore, it is absolutely not harmful. But let's get back to the kitchen, to our pastries, or rather, silicone molds.

Start baking

So, we didn't find anything terrible in silicone molds, which means it's time to start using this useful and safe device directly. Where should you start?

Before using the silicone baking dish, it must be thoroughly washed! Wash with dish detergent, preferably using a soft brush. In retail outlets, such forms in most cases are not supplied with a sterile packaging container. Therefore, during storage in the warehouse andduring loading, and even while the product is just sitting on the shelf in the store, contamination occurs.

Do silicone molds grease before baking?

The form is lubricated only before the initial departure to the oven. But you need to lubricate very carefully, using only vegetable oil. The best thing is to pour oil into the bottom of the mold so that the fold from the bottom to the walls certainly does not remain dry and does not cause inconvenience in the future. If the form contains complex artistic elements (rose, fish), you need to very carefully smear all the notches with a brush. Next, the molds should stand for 10 to 20 minutes for absorption. Now drain the excess oil and you can fill our molds with dough.

6 important tips for comfortable baking

How to use silicone baking molds to make them last longer? First of all, you need to remember some features that exist during the operation of products:

• The material is very flexible, so it is advisable to put the molds on a hard surface, and then fill them with dough. For this purpose, you can adapt a regular enameled or tin baking sheet.
• Never cut a dish cooked in a mold directly in the same container! You will easily damage the silicone mold with a knife. For the same reason, don't pick at pastries with a fork.
• To easily remove the cake from the mold, the finished product must be removed from the oven, placed on a hard surface and left for five or ten minutes. After a giventime, the cake will easily move away from the bottom and sides of the pan.
• Be careful that your favorite silicone baking dish does not end up in the oven at a critical temperature for dishes! When the plus temperature reaches more than 250 degrees, your form will turn into … no, not even a pumpkin, but smelly burnt lumps of melted silicone and dough.
• Silicone products are baked at lightning speed. Due to the fact that no preheating is required and the temperature immediately affects the dough, the usual cooking time may be reduced. Keep an eye on baking, especially at first, until you get used to it.
• When, when trying to place the mold in the oven, you suddenly find that you slightly miscalculated the height of the product, you can simply take scissors and cut the sides of the product to a suitable level.