Zero waste silicone baking tools & pans
These pretty pink silicone cupcake cases and baking mats are sold together as a bundle, for all your baking needs. Made from platinum silicone, they are reusable alternatives to single-use parchment and foil.
Heat-resistant up to 240 degrees C, they require no oil or butter, your cookies or cakes will just slide off!Easy to clean by hand or on in the dishwasher, you can also use the mat as a chopping board. different spoons).
If you bake your own plant-based cakes and cookies, you’ll likely want to invest in a few baking tools like baking trays and oven gloves. But it’s good to avoid ones with Teflon or cheap aluminium coatings.
Spend a little money on a few well-chosen eco alternatives, for years of happy baking! Use with vegan butters with no palm oil (Flora and Lurpak in the UK, or Miyoko’s in the US). Doves Farm has simple homemade vegan pastry recipes (keep fresh dough away from childre and pets).
Even when you find good quality items, you don’t have to buy everything but the kitchen sink! Carefully choose the items you need, and leave the rest on the shelf.
Once bought, wash items by hand, and cool before rinsing (to avoid thermal cracks). Use with non-scratch utensils and remove stains by soaking items in a mix of 2 tablespoons of bicarbonate of soda and 1 cup white cleaning vinegar for 30 minutes.
Read up on food safety for people and pets. For tinned ingredients, rinse/remove lids (or pop ring-pulls over holes) then step on upper cans to pinch rims together, to stop wildlife getting trapped.
Unless you have food waste bins, just bin pepper and allium scraps (onion, leeks, garlic, shallot, chives), citrus/tomato/rhubarb scraps. To avoid acids harming compost creatures.
Silicone Bread Loaf Tins
You can also buy these alongside the matching silicone bread and loaf tins, in space-saving designs that collapse down after use. They’re also good for making layered tortes and homemade pizza.
WAFE Reusable silicone baking tools are good to replace disposable parchment paper, and you can them for ovens to catch oil drips, then wipe clean and toss in the dishwasher, to use again.
