Demarle Silpat Baking Mat

Pros: Excellent for baking
Cons: None

If you're a fan of FOODTV you familiar with the Silpat idea. It's a wonderful invention to help with baking and cooking. This is a 24" x 16" silicone mat with what looks like metal mesh inside. It is non stick and flexible. Your Silpat should last for ...

Pros: Easy to maintain and clean, no longer do I have burned cookies or tarts.
Cons: Can't be folded, and care must be used to protect the nonstick surface.

There's a touch of coolness to the air, and the smell of ripening apples along the Hudson. When that happens, I know it is time to start my preparations for baking. After wrestling with sheets of parchment paper (which never quite fit), and rolls of alumi ...

Pros: Easy to use and clean, non-stick, saves cookie sheets, cookies etc. slide right off
Cons: Price - but pays itself back

We love kitchen gadgets, and have owned a Silpat for many years. We got it many years ago and use it quite frequently for baking. “ Our most popular item, the SilpatŪ is a must for any patisserie chef or home baker. SilpatŪ can turn any pan ...

Pros: 100% nonstick, safe for use in the freezer too
Cons: storage while drying

Almost a decade ago, a good friend raved to me about her new Demarle Silpat Baking Mat which she bought after reading a glowing review of it by Martha Stewart. Kathy practically strong armed me into buying a Silpat of my own. It's one of the few kitchen ...

Pros: Flexible, easy to use and clean, vital for creativity in the kitchen!
Cons: Kind of expensive at $20, my sister keeps trying to take it home

The miracle Silpat Mat! A great joy in my kitchen - This Silpat Mat is really ingenious! It is so easy to use and the results are consistent every time! I went on a silicone buying craze a few years ago and this was one of ...

Pros: Nothing sticks to this!!!
Cons: It's NOT made to last!

You may have heard about these Silpat products from friends or those having home Demarle parties. In case you haven’t heard about them, Silpat is a product that takes the place of using aluminum foil or parchment paper for baking; that is, ...

Pros: Nothing sticks to it, very easy to use and clean, perfect cookies every time!
Cons: Expensive

I love to bake but for many years I haven't had the time. Now that my daughter is older and has shown interest in helping me in the kitchen, I've started baking again. I really started in earnest last Christmas when my daughter was going through an ...

Pros: Nothing, but nothing sticks to this darn mat! Use in and out of the oven!
Cons: Expensive, storing these mats without folding them is a pain.

Introduction I’m a bit of a kitchen gadget weenie. Whenever I see something new, I want it. ...

Pros: Easy to clean, better than parchment paper, stores conveniently with rubber band.
Cons: Pricey, "sticky", can't throw into the dishwasher.

I LOVE Silpats. I ABHOR the price tag. These rubber mats were starters in my collection (if one could call it that) of silicone bakeware and kitchen tools years ago, all thanks to Martha Stewart and her recommendation. I am a gadget freak (and a ...

Pros: Nothing sticks to this mat, it cools off really quickly, delivers perfect cookies.
Cons: It is semi-expensive, and it increases cooking time.

After owning my Silpat for almost a year all I can say is "Wow!". When I saw it used on a cooking sh ...

Pros: Easy to use, non stick, easy to clean...
Cons: Can be pricey, but well worth it!

This Christmas, I'm giving every young couple I know a Silpat. Despite the silly name, the Silpat ...

Pros: Nothing sticks, cleans really easy.
Cons: Haven't seen any yet.

My wife loves to bake. And we have a rule in our home - whoever does the cooking gets the pleasure of making the ones who eat wash the dishes. Cookies, cakes, and especially brownies were always a mess to wash off whatever they were cooked on. Sugary ...

Pros: Nothing sticks!
Cons: Flat cookies!!! :(

It's true that nothing, I mean nothing sticks to this mat. But all my cookies come out completely flat on this thing. No matter what I do! I've experimented many times! The same batch of cookie dough, cooked on 1. silpat on plain cookie sheet, 2. silpat on insulated cookie sheet, and 3. plain cookie sheet no silpat, will yield different results, with the silpat versions being the flattest of all. The plain cookie sheet comes out PERFECTLY, the insulated sheet slightly less perfect, but the worst is the silpat or silpat on insulated sheet. Yuck! Kids laugh at these flattened cookies.

I'm sure if I was a candy maker, my silpat would be indispensable! It's also useful when working with things you don't want to have stick to any surface.

It seems durable to me, though I wash by hand and keep stored with my cookie sheets, flat. I have had no problems with smoking or falling apart, as I read in other reviews, but I've never cooked above 350 with it. I think the instructions give a maximum temp, but I've lost the original box so I'm not sure. 350 seems to be fine.

Pros: Easy to use, easy to clean, inexpensive.
Cons: Occasionally stays out all night and never calls its mother.

This is a great product. Nothing sticks to this mat. Everything bakes evenly with even crispness. It does present a minor storage problem because it can't be folded or creased, but I just loosely roll it and put it in a drawer. I didn't find it expensive, you can get them at BB&B for about $19.95 and considering how long they last and you don't have to worry about tearing it to the correct size of your pan like parchment paper (which I find very expensive and a hassle), this is a great value.

Pros: It is non-stick.
Cons: Flat, overdone cookies. Storage.

I bought one of these mats after hearing that it promotes even baking, prevents burning,is non-stick, and makes perfect cookies. I used the silpat for a batch of typical home-made chocolate-chip cookies.To my surprise, the cookies were flattened out during cooking, with the chips sticking out. I cooked the next dozen on a regular sheet, and they were normal, about half the diameter of the flattened cookies and 3x thicker. I rotated cooking on silpat and the regular sheet, but results were the same- flat on silpat, normal on cookie sheet.
A cookie scoop was used on all cookies, so the size was very uniform, and the dough was from the same batch.
The cooking time(8 minutes) was exactly the same, as was the oven temperature. I did try to shorten cooking time on the last batch, but as the flattening happened in the first 5 minutes, they were softer, but still too flat.
Not using these on cookies again.