"Janet Bostwick" wrote in message
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"Vox Humana" wrote in message
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If you have access to a food service supplier or a GFS Marketplace, you
can
get inexpensive parchment, otherwise, the stuff they sell at the
supermarket
is too expensive. GFS sells a pack of 50 sheets of full sheet pan size
parchment for $2.95. When you cut it in half to fit half sheet pans, it
comes out to 3 cents a sheet. That works out to about the same as
Silpat
if
you consider it will last 1000 uses and you have to wash it between
uses.
Parchment can be cut to fit any shape pan while you are stuck with the
shape
of the Silpat as you shouldn't cut them. I think each has its place,
but
I
generally reach for the parchment instead of the Silpat for most jobs.


I know that you bake bread. Is Silpat something that you would consider
using under free form loaves on a baking stone?
Janet

You could use it that way but I think it negates the benefits of the baking
stone. I use parchment under free form and braided loaves and slide them
onto the baking stone with the parchment still under them.