Great news for culinary experts: now you can forget about burnt baked goods forever! To replace the parchment, which had to be laid on a baking sheet, came a silicone rug for baking. Many people tend to think that this innovation is not capable of replacing the "grandmother's method", but they are mistaken! In fact, a culinary silicone rug is able to turn every your attempt to bake something in a culinary masterpiece, and also make your family's menu healthier. Want to know more? Then you should read this material.
Properties of heat-resistant food grade silicone
Quality heat-resistant silicone mats allow you to bake your favorite pastry with no fat at all. Due to the special structure, this material does not allow sticking even burnt food. Due to uniform heating of the mat surface, the products will burn less, and the baking process will become much more even. Due to the high resistance to thermal exposure, the silicone confectionery mat is able to withstand heating to 260 degrees. The dense structure of the surface of quality mats is designed for more than 2000 cycles of baking. Now let's see in practice how you can use a non-stick silicone baking mat.
Practical application and care
We will not start with the baking itself, but with the process of preparing the dough. You probably know the picture, when the dough, despite constantly being poured on the surface, where it is kneaded, flour, still sticks? With the purchase of a silicone rug, you will forget about it forever, now the flour will be needed only so that the dough does not stick to your hands, and it does not stick to the surface of the rug. Some of them even have a special marking for rolling the dough, which helps to make cakes for a cake of the same size. A very interesting pattern on the bottom of the baking is creating textured silicone rugs for ovens. They are embossed in the form of various pictures that are imprinted on your baking. How to use a silicone rug when cooking your favorite pastries? It's very simple, we put it on a clean, dry pallet, and we are already laying out what we are going to bake on top. Some still rub it with a napkin, lightly moistened with vegetable oil, but it's not necessary to do it. As practice shows, to this coating does not stick even very heavily burned sugar.
Tips for caring and choosing a rug
After we found out why a silicone rug is needed at all, you can proceed to the procedure of caring for it. If the oven with its help is simple, then it is even easier to take care of it! Since nothing sticks to the silicone baking mat, care of it generally reduces to a minimum. It is enough to wash it with warm water (if baked without fat), using as necessary detergent for its degreasing. This ends all the nursing procedures, now let's move on to the most interesting and necessary, namely, what to look for when buying it.
- The most important thing is the manufacturer's choice! Do not buy cheap rugs, because in addition to buying a product of questionable quality,
you can still harm your health! - To ensure that the products are well baked, do not choose a mat with a thickness of more than 0.4-0.5 cm.
- Before the first use with products it is recommended to "bake" the rug in the oven for at least two hours at a temperature of 240 degrees.
As you can see, rugs for baking are the necessary, convenient and practical purchase for every lover of homemade cakes. Using it to make culinary masterpieces from the dough will be much easier!
In addition to rugs in stores a large assortment of silicone molds for baking is presented .