Where to Buy Zero Waste Baking Tools
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! Also read our posts on vegan butters (with no palm oil) and homemade pastry recipes (again, to avoid palm oil).
Safe Baking For Everyone
Keep ingredients like nuts away from young children, and keep all sweet treats away from furry friends, due to unsafe ingredients like fresh dough, nuts, chocolate, nutmeg, citrus fruits. Read more on food safety for people and pets (heating any cookware is unsafe near birds).
If using these baking pans for roast potatoes, don’t give leftovers to pets, garden birds or wildfowl due to salt (toxic) – fat can also smear on feathers, affecting waterproofing and insulation.
Due to acids, it’s best to avoid composting citrus fruits, tomatoes, rhubarb and alliums (onion, garlic, leeks, shallots and chives), as they could harm garden creatures (just bin to break down naturally).
If using tinned ingredients, fully remove lids before recycling (or pop ring-pulls back over holes, to prevent curious wildlife getting trapped inside).
You Only Need a Few Baking Tools
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. Quality items cost more to last years, so buying the whole nine yards would cost a fortune.
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.
Sasstainable Silicone Baking Tools
Sasstainable Silicone Baking Mat is made from platinum silicone, a reusable alternative to baking paper, parchment and foil. Heat-resistant up to 240 degrees C, it requires no oil or butter, your cookies just slide off.
Easy to clean by hand or on in the dishwasher, you can also use this as a chopping board. Buy alongside the silicone cupcake cases as a baking bundle.
Joseph Joseph Baking Tools
Joseph Joseph offers a wide range of quality baking tools, just choose the few that suits your kitchen needs. Designed to save space with clever nesting designs, choose from baking trays, cake and loaf tins or muffin trays, made with heavy gauge carbon steel, with easy-pull handles for better grip.
Free from the usual toxic coatings, these carry 10-year guarantees, and can be bought as sets, to save money.
The measuring cups/spoons are ideal for American recipes (which most vegan baking books use). The innovative range includes an adjustable measuring spoon (just slide the handle to measure wet or dry ingredients, to save different spoons).
You can also find and measuring cups (plus mixing bowls and juicers/reamers) in nesting designs, for small spaces.
The oven gloves are easy-grip with heat-resistant silicone tips to handle hot pots and pans. They include separate compartments for your index finger, to enhance dexterity and control.
Do not use when damp or wet and avoid contact with naked flame or heating element. If laundered, use a microfiber filter.
