"<RJ>" > wrote in message
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> I keep pausing at the silicone baking pans display in WalMart.
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> Muffin pans, bundt pans, etc....red and blue.
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> Flash in the pan ? or serious cookware ?
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> It looks like the only prob would be its flexibility.
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I have a mini-muffin pan. It's red, and I got it at Bed, Bath and
Beyond. My old mini-muffin pans (non-stick) are starting to lose their
non-stick properties, so I wanted to experiment with one silicone pan
before replacing.

I spray with Pam, and they come out easiliy most of the time. Sometimes
I have to poke them from the opposite side a bit, but that's not a big
deal to me. Cleanup in the dishwasher works well. I hate cleaning out
the no-longer-non-stick metal pans, so this was a big plus.

The flexibility (wiggliness) is a bit of a pain. I put the pan on a
cookie sheet to bake, which I'm not crazy about. The main problem,
though, is that the mini-muffin cups are smaller than my existing pan.
They are mini-mini-muffins. So I can get 2 dozen regular mini-muffins
out of most of my muffin recipes (maybe a bit more) with my metal pans,
but with the silicone pans, I'd need three pans, maybe 4, to use up most
of the batter. I'm not happy about that.

So I will stick w/ my metal pans until I can find the right size in
silicone somewhere.

Chris