SlateHillMeadowBandB - Bedding, Bath, Kitchen and Dining

So many uses, not just for cookies!   November 7, 2002

Save your money and avoid those expensive cookie sheets - buy this and a cheapo aluminum sheet from your local discount store. Cookies, biscuits, bars, breads won't burn on the bottom without being fully cooked up top like in most nonstick bakeware. Nor do you need to adjust the oven temperature minus 25 degrees as with nonstick, dark sheets. Trust the experts, if you've watched food network for more than 10 minutes, you probably have spotted these mats on many of their shows. It's almost a necessity in the kitchen!


The perfect marriage of technology and design!   November 4, 2002
  26 out of 26 found this review helpful

This is one of those products that comes along every few years that makes me wonder why I would possibly need it. Until recently, I have been quite happy to line my commerical-quality baking pans with parchment paper. It's a slightly time-consuming process, but I do it without thinking and the results are always good. At least that WAS my habit until I bought a couple of these incredible Matfer Exopat baking sheets. In spite of my skepticism, they are as advertised..a real time saver. They're easy to use and easy to clean. No more parchment for me. Cookies, breads, buns--literally everything I've baked--slides right off these silicone beauties like greased lightning. This is a product that deserves a spot in any serious cook's kitchen. In fact, buy two!


Terrific Nonstick baking Sheet!   October 4, 2002
  11 out of 22 found this review helpful

If you have ahousefull of Labrador Retrievers who seem to hang around the kitchen whenever someone is baking cookies, best to have several of these pans handy so no one grabs anything while you are letting them cool. As a born-again cookie enthusiast, I have found the features of these pans to be absolutelky essentiual for someone neither skilled nor intuitive enough (yet) to really know what i'm doing, and although i have some wonderful expertise wandering around the place, she usually only appears after I've screwed up to give me the usual learning expeerience for "next time" Anyway. these pans prevent cookies from sticking while baking with the specially treated surface coating, and they can also be used in roasters. Indeed, they eliminate the need for either parchment paper or nonstick cooking surfaces because they're made of slippery silicone; which is quite nice as it wipes clean with a sponge. I am told it is heat-safe to 580 degree F, and that it can be used 2,000 times or more before needing replacement. At that rate my friends the Labradors and I are going to have cookies every weekend for years to come! Enjoy!


Best thing since sliced bread   October 3, 2002
  23 out of 29 found this review helpful

I've been baking for about 50 years and find these pads to be the most helpful addition to my kitchen/baking aids.


QUITE AMAZING!!   September 22, 2002
  7 out of 7 found this review helpful

I was a bit skeptical when I ordered this item, but a certain celebrity home-making maven keeps raving about them, and I was tired of going on exhaustive searches for her formerly beloved parchment paper (which was also a bit pricey). Well, it is a baking miracle. NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING, sticks to this sucker. I have tried cookies (no more burnt bottoms), to foccacia bread. And it everything comes off with zero problems, and clean-up is a breeze. I wish they made little circle ones you could put on the bottom of muffin pans.