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Posts tagged “silicone”

Hot or Not? Fingertongs

Wow - look at these! Silicone tongs that you wear. What do you think?...

Look! Flex-It Measuring Cups

We're rather taken with these new flexible measuring cups. Even though we're mostly turned off by silicone in the kitchen these days, we wonder if these are the exception. Why do we like these so much...

Good Grill Product: Silicone Grill Mitt with Fingers

We watched LA Times food writer Russ Parsons' video on grilling that Faith wrote about last week and watched him slip on a simple mitt to lift the hot top of his kettle grill. It's easy to assign an...

Good Question: Help! Why Do Cupcakes Always Get Stuck In These Silicone Muffin Cups?

I received some silicone muffin cups last year as a gift (the fluted stand-alone kind that look like a muffin tin liner). I've tried to make several batches of cupcakes in them and every time, not one...

Microwave Silicone Steamer from Orka
International Home and Housewares Show 2008

Microwaves and silicone - these two things and certainly the combination of both were hardly likely to win our attention at the Housewares show. We've predicted that home cooks are past the honeymoon ...

Good Product: Silicone Rolling Pin

When this heavy silicone rolling pin was given to us as a gift, we were skeptical. We already had two - a traditional wooden one, and a tapered dowel - what could we possibly want with a third? We i...

Survey: Silicone vs. Nonstick

There are many tools and special materials designed for baking these days, and most address the question of how to get perfectly formed cupcakes and muffins that don't break in the pan. Silicone and...

Top Home Cooking Trends for 2008

We're ready to throw down our top four predictions for what will be happening in our home kitchens in 2008. We've come up with this list based on conversations and product requests from you our reader...

PoachPod: Silicone Egg Poachers

There's more than one way to poach an egg, that's for sure. I'm still practicing the whirlpool method, but I took a crack at these silicone PoachPods ($9.95, Amazon.com) from Lamson & Goodnow. ...