A lot of this stuff is made by lueke (i think that's the spelling) - the guy's from luzern originally, but i think the company is in barcelona
I have an angelfood cake, tube cake pan that's silicone. It's ok...sort of like peeling the cake pan off the finished product. You can't use any fat with that. Also the muffin pans are ok. Don't like to loaf pan, too sloppy. I do like my silicone steamer insert. I also have an envelope of sorts that one can use to cook fish in the oven.
I have silicone cupcake molds and they still have to be buttered or the contents stick. They are however, easier to clean than the metal pans.
Looked in Hyper-U Pontarlier Smackerjack - they sell the Tefal sillicone cake moulds, with the stablelising (sp?) metal rim for E14.50.
Silicone cases are the best and so long as you use oil spray first, you'll never look back!
Buttered it - or tried to. That floppy thing again. I didn't have any cooking spray on hand (I rarely use it), so all in all it seemed more work than worthwhile.
I really do love my metal spring form pans for cakes and quick breads, and use metal tart tins and madeline pans. I think my only non-metal baking pans are ancient glass pie dishes and a ceramic short bread mold.
Given my limited storage space I have to limit my 'experimental' cookware.
I realise this thread is already a week old but I remembered reading it and thought I'd add that Lidl have some reasonably priced silicone cake molds at the moment which might be good for those who are wanting to try out the silicone stuff.
I bought some today and (of course) had to test them out!
The mini 'sun' cakes came out beautifully.
Well I have purchased a couple of silicone pieces and also some conventional baking ones as well.
It is interesting that some love them and some don't!
I will be using them in the next few weeks so will post on how I get on!!!
There is a wide range of silcone moulds on the market for a wide range of prices. I think the problem of them being too floppy to take in and out of the oven is often counteracted by the (in my opinion) classier ones which include a removeable (I think metal) reinforcener around the rim.
It's not so much that I love them I just liked the interesting shapes really. My Auntie bought me my first lot which are just standard round ones and a loaf 'tin'. The main problem I've found is that I forget they are hot because they are not tin and try and pick them up without oven gloves!