Silicone Yorkshire pudding tray

[Purplewithred]

Our trusty Yorkshire pudding tray was finally put to rest last night (finally moved from non-stick to active-stick, despite plenty of cooking fat). I'm looking for a 12-hole shallow bun tray in silicone suitable for individual Yorkshires. Anyone got any genius finds or will I just have to get a standard bun tray?

I don't really rate silicone for any food use, I had a cake tray and found it tainted the food.

For baking trays I now have glass, it's really good for non stick, but never seen any type of cake or muffin tray in glass unfortunately. Hopefully with the eco movement, someone will!

I got mine from Amazon. They do need to go on a solid baking tray as they can be a bit bendy.
I've got several silicon items, never had a problem with tainting, but they must be washed before using, & can go in the DW.

The whole secret with Yorkshire’s is getting the fat hot enough. I just can’t see how you could do that with silicon.

Silicone is a revelation for Yorkshire pudding.
I use barely any fat just wipe them with a bit of oil or lard and make sure the oven is really hot and they work perfectly

@twobrews do you just use a bun tray?

Mum used to bang on about getting the oven roasting hot but I find 210 more than hot enough. I think Mum's old Rayburn used to take a weeks worth of coal to get to 200, whereas mine goes to 250 in 5 mins if I ask it to.

@AtleastitsnotMonday

The whole secret with Yorkshire’s is getting the fat hot enough. I just can’t see how you could do that with silicon.

Someone posted an article on here last week suggesting that hot oil wasn't necessary as long as you use a thin metal tin (and the oven needs to be hot obvs), I tested it at the weekend and it bloody works.

So, OP, my recommendation is just a cheap bun/muffin tray, most are steel under the coating so can be recycled once past their best.

(And do try out not heating the oil/fat first, it's a revelation for a clumsy twat like me).

I've moved back to metal for yorkshires. I find it better than silicone.

@Purplewithred
I use two silicone six hole bun tins.
Agree totally with 200 being hot enough, I find any hotter and they burn on the tops before they're fully risen.

I thought the problem with silicon for yorkshires is that the silicon itself doesn't actually get that hot and you need the heat to surround the yorkies? I have a lovely silicon muffin tray from Lakeland that I use for cupcakes and muffins but have always avoided it for yorkshire puddings. May rethink that after this thread....