silicon mould

[chade]

Is there a way to stick two silicon food moulds together that is washable, waterproof, resistant to fruit juice but still food safe? I need a mould to make fruit leather but all the ring moulds I can find have a round profile in cross-section not square. If I could stick two together I could stick t wo simple round moulds of different sizes together having cut a hole in the base of each. The hole(s) would accommodate the central duct of the dehydr ater and the square profile would allow even drying.

[meow2222]

, waterproof, resistant to fruit juice but still food safe? I need a mould to make fruit leather but all the ring moulds I can find have a round profi le in cross-section not square. If I could stick two together I could stick two simple round moulds of different sizes together having cut a hole in t he base of each. The hole(s) would accommodate the central duct of the dehy drater and the square profile would allow even drying.

No.

NT

[Nightjar]

I suspect it might be simpler to make your own mould from scratch:

[meow2222]

le, waterproof, resistant to fruit juice but still food safe? I need a moul d to make fruit leather but all the ring moulds I can find have a round pro file in cross-section not square. If I could stick two together I could sti ck two simple round moulds of different sizes together having cut a hole in the base of each. The hole(s) would accommodate the central duct of the de hydrater and the square profile would allow even drying.

I'm not sure why one would need a mould to make fruit leather

NT

[JimK]

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- show quoted text - I'm not sure why one would need a mould to make fruit leather

NT /q

Yet despite your latter curiosity you answered 'no' earlier.......

Don't tell him OP Pike, f*ck him:-)

Jim K

[Malcolm Race]

At the risk of being flamed as a pedant, ca we please in this group dostinguish between silicon and silicone?

Silicon is an element which is hard an brittle. It is used in the manufacture of transistors and ICs

Silicone is a catch all for compounds containing mostly silicon and oxygen. Various silicone compounds are used as sealants and as moulds in cooking with high temperatute resistance.

I am a cently retired Science teacher (chemistry trained) and find that pupils tend to repeat what they hear in the media and are then difficult to convince that they may be wrong. (the other common confusion is between melt and dissolve - when sugar is heated with water it dissolves, it does not melt. (cookery programs))

Rant over

Malcolm

[The Natural Philosopher]

And some river cottage prat assures us that a 'rolling boil' cooks food faster than simmering...

[harryagain]

It actually does. But it's more about cooking all the food rather than some of it. Due to mechanical action and the convection currents.

Temperature in a cooking pan is not uniform. But it's more uniform in a "rolling boil".

As with nuclear power, you are too thick to deduce things from a couple of things you read somewhere. Chefs know about rolling boils from experience. So the prat is actually you. No surprises there then.

[stuart noble]

Stick around, we need all the pedants we can get

[fred]

In article , Malcolm Race writes

If you wanted to be helpful and had a background in chemistry, the usenet friendly way to make the point would be to:

1. Answer the o/p's question as fully and helpfully as possible, giving insights that you have learned from your related experience.
2. Mention at the end, "btw, I think you really mean silicone, silicon having very different properties".

Posting just 2 and in fact making it sound like the most boring lecture/school lesson ever delivered, to make a point, just makes you look a tit.

So please, keep netiquette and save corrections as subtle addenda to the main meat of a full and helpful answer.

Was that helpful?

[dennis]

No. it makes you sound like a tit.

[newshound]

[newshound]

I agree with Fred. I think *your* response makes you sound like the tit.

[chade]

Thanks for your suggestions. I will try to remember the correct spelling.

[Martin Bonner]

?? You make being described as a pedant sound like an insult. It's a compliment - isn't it?

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True - ish. When sugar is heated *without* water it melts, not dissolves. If you heat with a small amount of water, some sugar would dissolve (until the solution is saturated), and I think the rest would melt.

[michael adams]

Well yes and no. When you dissolve sugar in water you end up with warm sweet water and a sucepan that's easy to clean. When you melt sugar, for spun sugar* etc you end up with thick sticky stuff and a saucepan that's more difficult to clean.

• Mary Berry shows you how. Please note: no water needed

michael adams

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[Tim Lamb]

In message , michael adams writes

Point of order.... sugar crystals contain water already. (water of crystallisation)

[stuart noble]

:-)

[sm_jamieson]

I too have noticed that pasta cooks more quickly at a "rolling boil" than i f it is just simmered. And if you try to cook it with the lid on which mean s it is at something less than a rolling boil it takes ages too, despite po ssibly slightly increased pressure due to the lid. There must have been a study done in it ... Simon.