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Warning about silicone and using the broiler

The heat resistant nature of silicone kitchen and bakeware is usually much-touted to home cooks by the manufacturers. This property is very useful for kitchen tools and, for example, pot holders, but the manufacturers often fail to mention the fact that silicone is so good at keeping the heat down that it can prevent your baked foods from browning in the same way that they ordinarily would if baked in or on a regular metal pan or some kind.

There is not much that can be done about an under-browned cookie without baking up a new batch, but with some foods (roasted vegetables or oven-fried chicken, for example), the reaction of many cooks is to slide the under-browned food under the broiler to finish it off. Do not do this if you are using any kind of silicone cook/bakeware, including a nonstick silpat. As some have found out, the heat from the broiler is so great that a kitchen fire can result very, very quickly. Stick to a tried-and-true metal baking sheet.

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Tags: baking, broiler, browning, fire, Gadgets, heat, oven, silicone, warning

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MJ

1-20-2007 @2:02PM MJ said... Well duh.............for some reason I dont trust these silcone things. I was promised some for xmas. So glad i didnt get it!! Anyone would know not to put it under the broiler...hotter than hades
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Sara

1-20-2007 @2:10PM Sara said... Yeah - they aren't kidding about the upper temperature limit for those things. I had an old, unreliable oven that must not have had good temperature control, because I was baking some corn bread in one of these pans, which you do at just under the warning temperature - and set my oven on fire.

I live in an apartment, so I got a new oven! I should break more stuff around here.
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