What are our thoughts on silicone pans?

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Freaking hate them. So floppy, and if I have to put it on a baking tray what’s the point? But silicone cupcake pans are really really good for freezing portions of stuff like stock or grated ginger or whatever, because the frozen thing pops right out. So there’s that. Answer from Annabel398 on reddit.com

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r/Baking on Reddit: What are our thoughts on silicone pans?

September 19, 2024 -

I'm thinking about switching to silicone cupcake pans and cookie sheets, but I want to hear some other opinions first. Do they heat as evenly as metal ones do? Are they easy to clean? Any anecdotal experiences or recommendations?

Freaking hate them. So floppy, and if I have to put it on a baking tray what’s the point? But silicone cupcake pans are really really good for freezing portions of stuff like stock or grated ginger or whatever, because the frozen thing pops right out. So there’s that.

I'm skeptical of anything petroleum based for cooking and silicone is partially petroleum based from my understanding.

reddit.com › r/cookingforbeginners › are silicone muffin pans 100% stick-proof? do i still need to grease them if i'm making a batch of egg muffins, for instance?

r/cookingforbeginners on Reddit: Are silicone muffin pans 100% stick-proof? Do I still need to grease them if I'm making a batch of egg muffins, for instance?

July 19, 2025 -

Planning on prepping egg muffins for the week (not the kind with bread - just egg, veggies + cheese), and am curious if I can trust that a silicone muffin pan will result in easy removal of such a recipe that is particularly notorious for sticking.

Example: https://www.wellplated.com/healthy-breakfast-egg-muffins/

Should be. Nothing wrong with spraying them with a bit of oil if you’re worried though, it won’t impact egg muffins.

unless you're using fat free cheese, there's usually a enough fat from these kinds of recipes. if you find them sticking a smidge, you can always drop a few drops of oil into each cup and wipe out lightly with a paper towel. i would avoid using cooking sprays. the anti clumping agents in them build up over time on cookware including silicone and siliconecoated (like one from usa pan) and actually makes them release poorly. also tip on recipes like your example that have high water content veggies, it helps to parcook the veg to get them to release some water before you put them in your egg mix. the extra moisture kinda screws up the finished texture

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r/Cooking on Reddit: silicon muffin pans?

December 10, 2023 -

Anyone ever use one of the silicon muffin pans? When i cook cornbread muffins in the silicon ones they always seem to fall apart & down brown nearly as nicely. Anyone has the same experience. & i do spray them liberally with PAM :). I just wanted to use silicon ones & the metal ones seem to rust so easily (i do like to throw everything in the dishwasher.

the muffins probably will not brown as much, because the silicon pans don't heat up as much as the metal ones. Not sure why they fall apart though.

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r/Baking on Reddit: Silicone bakeware vs everything else

October 19, 2022 -

Hi, I wanna bake jumbo muffins. I had a muffin tin before and it got scratched up a lot from trying to get muffins out, so I went to silicone. Something’s different that I don’t like as much. Maybe less crispness on exterior of muffin. Are there muffin tins that will give good browning but that dont require magic to get them out? I’m not using liners btw, hate em. Thanks for any help

Silicone doesn't conduct heat very well, hence the less-crispness. They're mostly used for their non-stick quality and their stability in high heat. Metal muffin tins are the way to go if you want crispness on your muffins. If you don't want to line the muffin tin with muffin liners then you'll have to apply non-sticking agents on. Non-stick vegetable spray is good, or do what I do and use pan-grease (aka cake goop amongst most bakers) which is a equal parts mix of shortening, vegetable oil, and flour by weight.

Are you spraying your muffin pan with an oil like Pam so they don't stick?

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r/AskCulinary on Reddit: Question about silicone bakeware

September 24, 2012 -

Hi ask culinary :) Hopefully this question hasn't been posted, I did search but nothing close came up.

I know plenty of people use silicone bakeware, but I notice you never see it used on TV cooking shows. Is this because professional chefs don't like them? And if so why?

I'm not a pro, just a passionate hobbyist. My experience with silicone bakeware (muffin pans, sandwich loaves, + cake pans) has been unpleasant. The silicon is even floppier at high heat than it is cold, which means you can't easily grab it with one hand when moving in / out of an oven. It doesn't scrub up as nicely and easy as metal pans, and broiled-on oil will really stick on permanently. We eventually ditched our silicon stuff for good ole fashioned, inexpensive, non-brand-name goods from our local restaurant supply company. So much faster / easier!

Silicon muffin pans are AMAZING, but only for freezing individual portions of sauce or stock. I never use them to bake muffins. It allows you to have 1/2 cup portions of pulled pork, or chicken stock, or whatever you want. After they freeze solid, I put them in a ziplock bag, and it's convenient for adding a bit of depth to a sauce or to make a small set of tacos. This is more of a home trick, and isn't appropriate for a restaurant because of the low volume and rather high amount of labor.

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r/cookingforbeginners on Reddit: best nonstick muffin "tin" for egg bites? (silicone?)

June 16, 2025 -

For those who make a lot of egg bites (to make a bunch and then freeze), what kind of muffin tin is the best nonstick option? I'd like silicone especially if they can go in the dishwasher but am not sure if they are nonstick or if butter/oil need to still be added. Thank you!

Silicone 100% and no, you don't have to add any oil or liners. The egg bites should pop out after a few minutes of cooling. HIGHLY recommend the kind that has a metal reinforcement built in to make the edges firm. Idk what recipe you are using, but I had the best success baking at a low temp (325°) with a pan of boiling water directly under the muffin pan. I went through a whole thing where I was making like 4 dozen egg bites a week.

i tried silicon but i guess the ones i got weren't any good. i'm back to using paper cupcake liners.

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r/Baking on Reddit: Silicone vs. Aluminum

July 20, 2014 - I thought the silicone would be the greates thing, but I like how muffins and cupcakes bake up with the firmer exterior in the metal pan. Maybe I am just a creature of habit. In the silicone they always seemed underbaked in taste and texture even if they were done (or overdone when I was still experimenting with it). I feel like I am probably in the minority on that though... ... No, you're not the minority. Then again, I didn't really know silicone pans existed so maybe I'm not an authority on who's in the minority (or what the minority even is).

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thoughts on silicone trays/ baking tins? : r/Baking

January 26, 2023 - Silicone is nonstick and flexible, which means cupcakes, muffins, and other sticky and delicate items can be popped out easily, but it also means the pans are really easy to squish accidentally. Plus, silicone doesn’t conduct heat the same way metal does, and everything we baked in the silicone muffin pans we tested came out pale and underdone.

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r/Cooking on Reddit: silicone baking cups/muffin liners… are they safe? if yes, are there any reliable brands to purchase from?

March 25, 2025 -

i’ve done A LOT of looking on amazon - even the products with thousands of immaculate reviews have atleast 50-100 reviews talking about chemical fumes, melting, and smoking. i’m tired of buying paper cups every time i bake and i’m ALSO tired of wrestling my muffins and omelette bites out of my nonstick pans, despite oiling them well. please give your two cents 😊

Smoking or releasing chemicals is probably due to having an oven that is too hot. 425 might be the top of the range that is safe for a silicone pan, and even that might get too hot depending on how your oven cycles and how accurate the dial is. And you absolutely CANNOT use the broiler element! I bake banana nut muffins in a pan that makes 24 mini-muffins, I have two of these pans from Amazon (Walfos is the brand, I think.) These are baked at 350. Every type of pan they make has people who will say using it will leach chemicals into your bread or the air in your house. I've heard that about cast iron, stainless steel, aluminum, anything non-stick coated and silicone.

I personally HATE the silicone muffin cups. Everything sticks, when nothing is supposed to stick to silicone.

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r/AskCulinary on Reddit: Silicone baking

May 15, 2023 -

SILICONE BAKING EXPERT ADVICE NEEDED, SILICONE OR NOTHING IN MY HOUSEHOULD FROM NOW ON. (Fed up with the cleanup from metal baking pans, I WILL NEVER BUY THEM AGAIN!) What is the temperature that you need to bake your muffins at in silicone molds???? I have been baking my muffins for a solid 40 minutes at 350 Fahrenheit or more just to have a gooey inside while the outside is either cooked enough. I’ve used box recipes and old time and trues scratch recipes that bake in 19.5 minutes same temperature in metal pans with no problem, so what am I missing? I know it can go up to 428 degrees or even 450 for what it can take without becoming a science experiment, but what is the secret temperature it’s supposed to be at so I can stop getting runny but crusty muffins? ETA to add anyone who has gotten it to work because I do not have time at all for cleaning the metal ones, the only dishwasher I have is my two hands and between school, work, clean, kids and trying to meal prepping I already need 30hours in my day.

Silicone bakeware just doesn't work. I tried, and I wanted it to be good, but it just isn't.

I don't bake with silicone. Even if the stuff gets done, the texture is gross.

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r/Baking on Reddit: I was just gifted these silicone baking pans. Any tips on using them, what recipes work well.

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r/cookingforbeginners on Reddit: Silicone Bakeware

January 24, 2021 -

I was thinking of getting some silicone bakeware. Is it worth it? Does it make the items easier to remove from the pan? Is it easier/harder to clean up? Which types would you recommend? (Cake pans, specialty cake pans, loafs, etc)

I'm actually revisiting the idea. A few years ago, I had some silicone cupcake pans, but I found that they didn't want to keep their shape when filled. They were flipfloppy and it felt to me like I needed to put the silicone cupcake pan into a metal cupcake pan for baking to help that which was pointless to have it then so I returned it. Maybe what I had was cheap garbage though.....

I've got some silicone cupcake liners that you use instead of paper liners, and I just hate them. They don't absorb any excess liquid like the paper ones, so things get/stay soggy, and they're a pita to clean. The full-on silicone cupcake pans like you describe have always seemed floppy to me, regardless of what store they're in. I wish there was a cooking sheet type silpat to roast veg on, but without the edges I'd end up with extra cleaning to do.

In my experience they're not worth it. Expensive ones hold their shape just fine, but it's not significantly easier to remove things from the pan. Metal also conducts heat better, so you will get better browning in a metal pan than in a silicone one.

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r/Cooking on Reddit: Silicone baking pans

October 8, 2018 -

I bought a silicone muffin pan for the first time about a month ago. I’ve been scared to try it, but today I made some cupcakes. I didn’t have any cupcake liners, and I didn’t spray the pan.

Let me tell you...

Those cupcakes came RIGHT out of the pan once they had cooled. I had no issues with anything sticking or breaking apart. Now I want silicone everything!!

I’m not sure if I’m late to the silicone pan game, but if anyone has had any other experiences with them, or know of any negatives that I should be aware of, let me know!!

Not great material for cookies; I would wonder if the nonstick does inhibit browning at all and if that is a useful trade off for nonstick with muffins. https://www.seriouseats.com/2019/10/problems-with-baking-cookies-on-silicone.html

I recently started using silicone bread pans with the same results you got with your muffins. Bread falls out of the pan. I did find that for me, I got better results by dropping the baking temp to 310°F instead of 350, but that may be because my oven is short.

My only complaint is that I can't seem to find actual 9x5" pans. Because my oven is short, I wanted a wider, longer pan to keep the loaf out of my heating element. The last pair I just bought said 9x5. Well, that's the outside measure, which includes about a .6" lip all the way around. Actual inside pan size is about 7.8x3.8".

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r/AskBaking on Reddit: Are there any major drawbacks to using silicon bakeware?

October 23, 2020 -

I love baking and am looking to expand my bakeware collection. However, I’m on autism spectrum and very sensitive to loud noises. The sound of metal pans clanging drives me crazy and sometimes I don’t bake just to avoid the noise. I was thinking a good solution would be to get silicon stuff but I’m curious if that will negatively effect my baking. What’s the difference between metal and silicon bakeware?

Silicone like most polymers isn't just non-conductive, but as far as heat-transfer rate is concerned it's pretty much an insulator, which is why it's coated on top of metals at times to help make them less warm to the touch. This is usually why I'd avoid silicone bakeware, unless I happened to be baking low-temperature dishes where insulation could be a desired quality, which is rarely actually the case. If I were to recommend you something, it would be using a baking stone or baking steel; the heavy amount of mass causes things to make less noise as you drop and slide metals against each other, which you can just keep in the oven all the time, and combine this with a good heavy bottom pan such as cast-iron skillets, and the probability of anything voilently bending or vibrating becomes pretty low, although yes it does still happen. I would also just highly recommend just putting in some ear-plugs, having worked in construction, those really help me with loud noises. Essentially it tries to block out loud noises, while keeping quieter noises within the audible range, so you can still hear people talk for example.

Metal conducts heat better, so if you're using silicon you might have to leave things in the oven a few minutes longer. It's also usually quite floppy so not as easy to carry when filled with a batter or other not set stuff. Iirc it can also reduce browning on the outside and underside of any cakes, again because the silicon doesn't get as hot as metal. How about glass bakeware? Glass makes a very different noise, much lower and less shrill, so that might be more tolerable. Cake tins, the sort of brownie tin sizes baking pans, pie pans, etc are all good to use as glass. Bonus points for using non-metal glassware is not having to be as careful when using in combination with other metal items. For example using a knife to loosen cake from the edge of the tin, you won't be able to chip any non-stick coating like you could for a lot of metal bakewear.

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r/Baking on Reddit: Are silicone cupcake liners actually useful?

September 16, 2021 -

New to baking and want to try my hand at some cupcakes. Wasn’t sure if I should get regular cupcake liners or some of the reusable silicone ones. Can anyone weigh in with their preference?

I really like them myself. They make the cupcakes have a slightly different shape so they look weird in a box (to me) but that could just be the ones I have! The base is slightly narrower than a paper liner, and they don't seem as stable so if they are leaving my house I just use paper, but I make alot of protien muffins and they stick to paper pretty badly but pop right out of the silicone.

We have a set and it makes baking muffins a breeze. Ours are magically non stick or something - you don't need to spray them and everything just slides right out of them. We throw them in the top of the dishwasher rack once we've eaten all the muffins. The pan is then basically clean and needs like a simple rinse.

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r/moderatelygranolamoms on Reddit: If not silicone for baking then what?

November 1, 2024 -

What else works? Not paper or aluminium foil 🫠

ETA we bake muffins a lot. And bars

Stainless steel or glass

Wait, why not silicone? I just switched my baking stuff to silicone last year.

reddit.com › r/askculinary › silicone muffin ‘tins’ instructions say: “butter your pan before using. do not use cooking spray.” —??

r/AskCulinary on Reddit: Silicone muffin ‘tins’ instructions say: “Butter your pan before using. Do not use cooking spray.” —??

January 24, 2021 -

So according to the instructions on the packaging (which I still have), it says to use butter (to grease the pan), but don’t use cooking spray.

Why couldn’t I use cooking spray? It just seems a lot easier and simpler — than having to let just the right amount of hard stick butter get soft enough to grease the pan (but not too much!), and then trying to get it all evenly spread too —??

And besides, isn’t the point of the silicone that it’s super-duper no-stick??

I’m not adverse to having to use cooking spray (a bit, or more even) — but the instructions specifically say no, but do use butter — and I just don’t know why I should believe it.

Thanks!!

Here’s the specific product...

https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/amp/store/product/trudeau-structure-silicone-12-cup-muffin-pan/1062120104

Chemist here. My guess would be that they are worried about a cooking spray additive (probably the propellant) reacting with the silicone surface. This could cause the surface to soften or lose its luster.

Ahem..NON chemist here 😌. Just friendly reminder butter tastes much better than the bug spray 👍

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r/Baking on Reddit: The taste of silicone after baking?

September 24, 2023 -

I recently made pineapple upside down cake and used silicone cake pans.

The first time I made this recipe was for my husband, I used a glass 13x9 baking dish, no frills just wanted to try the recipe (and see if I could do it successfully without it falling apart!) and it was delicious.

The second time I made the recipe was for a family gathering, I used silicone cake pans to make it a 2 layer pineapple upside down cake. The structure came out better than expected. But when we got to the event and tried the cake, to me the taste of silicone on the cake was prevalent, I was so disappointed.

Nobody else noticed, everyone said it was great, I even asked my husband (who would tell me honestly) if he could taste silicone and he said he couldn’t detect it at all.

Has anyone else experienced this? I don’t think I’ll use them again.

I’ve been having a lot of issues with silicone products since moving into a place with a dishwasher. When we were hand washing we never had issues with everything tasting soapy. What I’ve found is that heat opens the silicone pores, so you can put the silicone item in the oven at a low temp (I think 200f) for a few hours and draw the smell/taste out. But the flip side is washing it in really hot water, like a dishwasher on the hottest setting, opens the pores when the soap cycle is running and traps the soap in them. We had so many baked goods and other meals ruined by the damn soap in our spatulas or instapot seal, etc. Now we largely hand wash our silicone items, or wait to run it through the dishwasher on moderate temp with a sanitizing rinse at the end to try and draw out any flavors.

I use silicone molds a LOT for baking but I only notice the silicone taste with the silicone cupcake liners and I don’t know why. I rarely use them now because it’s all I taste in the end product.

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r/cookingforbeginners on Reddit: Safety of Silicone Baking Items

October 8, 2023 -

Dear Redditors,
Donut Mold
I want to buy this silicone donut mold from Target for someone. However, I saw some people saying that silicone isn't safe. Is it safe up to the allowed temperature? Also, if you had any silicone bakeware, were your experiences positive or negative? Thanks for your feedback!
Sincerely,
A concerned gifter/baker

I own that exact set of silicone donut pans and they work great. Pretty much any food-safe silicone will also be oven-safe. I can't speak to plastic or chemical leaching, though.

I have never used a silicone donut mold, but I have silicon bread pans and muffin pans. I’m not aware of any serious safety concerns with them. The only caveats I have are that you shouldn’t use an abrasive scrubby on them, because the scratching can make them less non-stick. The other is that they don’t really fully support their own shape and weight, so you need to put a sheet pan under it to not spill as you’re putting it in the oven.

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