Silpat Non-Stick Baking Mat, 11.6 x 16.5-inches, Half Sheet Size
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Silpat Non-Stick Baking Mat, 11.6 x 16.5-inches, Half Sheet Size
Customer Review: Freezing berries
Summary: 5 Stars
Baking cookies is only one use that makes this mat a kitchen essential, for example--when berries are in season I freeze bags full using this mat. In order to extract various quantities later for smoothies, ice cream, pies or jam, they have to be frozen individually and this mat makes the task easy. By laying washed strawberries, pitted cherries, blueberries or grapes on this mat lining a cookie sheet, the fruit freezes perfectly, releases easily and can be bagged afterward. When using a cookie sheet alone, the berries stick like a tongue on a frozen pole in winter. Frozen berries can replace ice cubes in cold drinks like tea or lemonade and a little bowl of frozen cherries is a sensational hot weather treat.
And speaking of pies--they run over in the oven sometimes, don't they? By baking the pie on a cookie sheet lined with this mat, cleanup is a breeze. The sticky goo peels right off the mat.
I have washed the mat in the dishwasher and even though it flops over, it gets clean, and I have washed it with a dish brush in the bottom of the sink. To dry it, I hold a dry dishtowel under my chin and lay the mat against it while wiping the exposed side with another dishtowel. That saves hanging the mat somewhere to dry on its own. I store the mats between two cookie sheets in a rack where they are handy and take up virtually no extra space. I own three of these things and can't imagine various tasks without them. Highly recommended.
Customer Review: So many uses!
Summary: 5 Stars
This thing makes life so much easier for anyone doing serious baking.
First, obviously, it's great for baking on. No longer do you need to expose your baked goods to unnecessary grease, butter or other chemicals to prevent them from sticking to sheet pans.
Also, for me, rolling doughs was always something of a challenge, because my counters did not have enough texture for flour to cling to, so I couldn't coat them with it, so my dough always stuck and clung while rolling, and I wound up repairing a lot of torn dough. No more, though. This makes an excelent dough-rolling surface.
Although, probably the most useful, is for making caramel decorations. This is where I find a good Silpat absolutely essential. When dealing with sugar at temperatures at or exceeding 320 degrees, it is essential that you have a good surface to work with. Piping liquid sugar this hot onto a bare sheet pan would make it impossible to remove without destroying the fragile decorations. And over parchment paper? The paper will actually bond to the cooling sugar when it's that hot, and you'll never get it all off. Not tasty. But they come clean off of a Silpat.
There are probably hundreds of potential uses for theese. They're not cutting boards, so don't cut on them. But I've used them for everything from opening stubborn jars to caramel spirals that my friends always beg me to tell them how they were made.
Customer Review: Vive La Difference
Summary: 5 Stars
First of all, thank you, Amazon, for having product reviews! After using various alternatives such as greasing baking sheets, using waxed and parchment papers, I decided to take the plunge and finally--after many years--shell out the money for silicone baking mats.
I was tempted to buy the less expensive ones until I thought about other readers' comments regarding the country of manufacture. Was it an oversight that their country of origin (China) wasn't mentioned? After so many tainted products have hurt humans and pets, I won't risk buying from China until they enforce stricter manufacturing standards. After all, the food I serve my family will be in direct contact with the mats.
These Silpat mats meet every expectation I had for them. I used them for more than baking cookies. I placed veggies directly on them and they worked perfectly as the vegetables dehydrated in the oven. They also performed beautifully when I roasted nuts and seeds directly on them.
Simply use warm water, mild dish soap and a soft sponge to wash them. As I washed each of the four silicone mats I placed them on dish towels, flipped them over to dry the backs and then put them right back into the baking pans. They adhered, laying flat, without any problems. Not only does this take care of where to store them, but the next time I need one of the pans, it's already lined and ready to use. How easy it that!
Customer Review: Sheet lightning
Summary: 5 Stars
If it's in-line skates one week, it's junior scooters the next! As a parent it's so difficult keeping up with all the latest children's sporting crazes. This seasons must-do activity has taken the Home Counties by storm, and looks set to do the same over the pond. Teatraying, a more up-market version of polybagging, sees youngsters all over West Hertfordshire excitedly climbing the staircases of their parent's country pile. Having reached the top floor, they straddle a tea-tray, and launch themselves with gay abandon off the landing, riding the unforgiving carpet all the way back down the stairs to land in a giggling heap on the hallway tiles.
This beautifully constructed Silpat Baking Sheet is the Nimbus 2000 of the teatraying world. Your child will surely feel just like Harry Potter (on a baking sheet rather than a broomstick) when they're accelerating over the Axminster. It'll give them a good 2 yards head start on any other competitor in a teatray race, as the sheet itself is lovingly crafted from the finest non-stick silicone - causing very little friction between the tray and the carpet. It'll even glide over Persian rugs with ease!
So, all in all, this would be a fantastic purchase, and is warmly recommended. Top marks!
Customer Review: Any baker's delight
Summary: 5 Stars
Since I received a Silpat as a gift, I haven't had to purchase anymore parchment paper for cookie baking. I probably bake more often just knowing I don't have to buy, cut and throw away parchment or grease cookie sheets.
The Silpat fits on top of my standard cookie sheet, and every dough I've tried bakes well and rolls or lifts off so easily. In addition, I use the Silpat underneath bubbly apple pies in the oven, to catch drippings and prevent them from caramelizing onto the stove.
I also use it for laying out sticky pastry so I don't have to over-flour, and this helps prevent drying the dough, over-handling, and tearing the pastry. I imagine it would probably be great for making sticky candies or rolling other doughs as well. Clean up is accomplished with a simple warm wipe or soapy rinse.
Once dry, I store my Silpat rolled up in drawer with a rubber band around it to keep it from flopping open. If you bake a lot
(especially cookies or small pastries), this is a must. You won't imagine how you got along without it! Just don't use a knife on it. It will get marked up.