To tell DH the cakes will be fine 🤣

[TheShellBeach]

I've just bought some silicone baking trays for making cakes.

DH is looking at them askance and is convinced that they will melt when put in the oven.

He's wrong, isn't he?

Hmmm. They won’t melt but they might make your cakes a weird shape. I’ve chucked all the silicon stuff I bought so optimistically. Sorry.

Does he really think that it would be possible to buy normal baking implements if they melted like jellies in the oven?

They wouldn’t keep selling them if they melted.

your cakes might budge around the middle though.

I was wondering that.

I never know what goes on in his head. 🤣

I use silicone for muffins, no problem

I binned the few I bought- everything tasted like plastic. I also binned my air fryer liners for the same reason- a horrible plastic/chemical taste.

They definitely won't melt. He's an eejit! Like others here, I got rid of ours because the shape of everything was inconsistent and the smell of the silicone when it heated up wasn't very appetising. I imagined I could taste it. We do use silicone containers to cook things in the air fryer, but only food that is self contained (if that makes sense!), not anything that liquifies and bakes itself onto the sides.

They won't melt but they will smell odd and the cake sized ones often lose shape.

I used silicone muffin tins, loaf tins and madeleine tine for years with no issues (other than the whiff of heating silicone), but when, after an international house move during Covid where they were stored in a stone outhouse, they were eaten by vermin.

same here

I've used them successfully - the good thing is it's easy to get things like muffins out of them - but they are a bastard to clean. Any opinions out there on the best way?

I binned my actual air fryer because it couldn't make chips.

Oh well. I'm donating the cakes to an afternoon tea, so I won't be eating them.

Has he never put a ready meal plastic tray in the oven?!
I hope you didn’t actually just throw away an air fryer though.

Oh and the rubber seal round the oven door - maybe show him that? 🤣

Yes he is very, very wrong!

I have two muffin trays and two cake moulds. No silicone taste though yes there's a slight smell when they cook. The larger ones yes you need to be a bit careful and not use anything to liquid unless on a solid surface but a normal solid ISH cake batter is fine. The muffin trays are used constantly though, better then using disposable paper liners.

I put my silicone cake pans inside my metal ones. It keeps the shape and its so much easier to get the cakes out and clean up

No. I sent it back to Amazon for a refund.

Useless bloody thing.

We don't eat ready meals.

I found they retain smells, and over time it was a horrible greasy stink. Chucked them. Tala bakeware is what I use.

I found silicone baked just doesn't taste right, both texturally and flavour.
Gone back to my Silverwood - they bake the best IMHO.

This is MN - of course you don’t 🤣

Never in his life has your husband put something pre-prepared in a plastic tray in the oven?

Never, I promise you.