Silpat Silicone Baking Mat Review from Kitchen Contraptions.com

I was spellbound the first time I read about one of these cooking Silpat Baking Mats. Would it really work? Would it clean up? Would I be able to cook oven bacon, cookies, and asparagus and not taste each one after cooking the other? What about broiling some salmon? Well, you're in luck. For about 12.99 I picked up a Silpat Baking Mat that fits a standard cookie sheet sized pan. We put it through a grueling 4 hour cookathon of Biscuits, Salmon, and Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Specifically, Silpat Baking Matt has the following immediate benefits when you buy it.

Silicone products clean up with some water or you put them in the dish washer (like the Orka oven mitt).
They replace costly tin foil that you use every time you cook
They cann replace sprays that you would put on your baking sheets to keep things from sticking Best of all - you buy them once and use them for much longer than traditional items
They also dissipate heat rapidly.
They can be molded have many cool shapes and uses that you can't do with the old kitchen standbys

The Biscuits Go to the Silpat Baking Mat

We wanted to start out the Silpat Baking Matt with something with little flavor and then move onto the Salmon to get the feel of what the mat would offer. After procuring some ready bake biscuits from our local Trader Joes, we put the biscuit on the cooking surface of silicone with no grease at all. We then fired up our convection oven, and amazing things happened

Biscuit Nirvana

The biscuits cooked like no other biscuits I've cooked before. The bottoms of the biscuits were as golden brown and perfect just like the top and NO STICKING! We then lifted up the Silpat Baking Mat as it had cooled rapidly, and hand washed it with dish soap. Our first test a success - we moved on to a deadlier food in the oven.

Salmon Loves the Silpat Baking Mat

I was sure broiling was going to be a disaster with the cooking Silpat Baking Mat. I was still somehow not a believer even though I had just witnessed biscuit magic. Another thing holding me from belief - the Silpat Baking Mat didn't really fit the broiler pan. I put the mat into the bottom of the pan the broiler grill on top - much like you would to line tin foil on the bottom. I guessed the cooking salmon would produce too much oil and burn in the bottom. How wrong was I!!!

Perfect Crisp Salmo

The salmon came out crisp and just about as perfect as you could expect. You can see in the first picture the silicone Silpat Baking Mat peaking out from underneath the broiler pan. It didn't phase the mat t at all - no tears, no wrinkles, and after we were done - it cleaned up with no grease at all.

Wrapping Up with Cookies and the Silpat Baking Mat

To finish our dinner (okay no vegatables - geez), we got a bucket of Chocolate chip cookies from Trader Joes. Now I wasn't thinking burnt cookies - I was thinking - HOW AMAZING ARE THESE COOKIES GOING TO BE?

The cookies tasted great. No fish taste and the mat cleaned up perfectly.

The Silpat Baking Mat is a total Winner

The Silpat Baking Mat is a thing of magic. We have gone through every recipe we would normally use foil with and replaced it with the Silpat Baking Mat. I can't recommend this item enough. For $12.99 it will radically change your kitchen.

May 5, 2005

Silpat Silicone Baking Mat Review from Kitchen Contraptions.com