Silicone Prep Bowls: Tips, Complaints, Praise & Reviews

[Admin Greg]

Please discuss the Silicone Prep Bowls. Tips, complaints, praise, reviews, ideas, thoughts...

 

[DebPC]

These I find very interesting. The idea of melting something in the microwave- like chocolate and then decorating cakes, baked goods easily. What does everybody think?

 

[kam]

I am looking forward to these! Happy they are open stock.

When the new products come out - I want them ALL. Then I start to think about it and decide what I really want and need and my list gets a lot shorter. These stayed on my list!

 

[DebPC]

I agree- this year I'm getting tons for free, but when I have to buy them- I often wait for reviews from others and carefully pick and choose. To our customers, except extreme PC addicts- most of our line is unknown anyways.

 

[raebates]

I think they're interesting. I'm looking forward to playing with them.

 

[pcwithamanda]

I just got them this past week and had a vendor event this weekend. I looked at them right off the top thought melting Chocolate when someone asked what I would do with them, they seemed very pleased with my 2 second thought... so then after I got home I had to try out the largest with some softened cream cheese and cool whip for a filling... thinking demo purposes and they are VERY hard to hold when trying to fold in the "whip" to it. So currently I am on the fence with this product.

 

[BethCooks4U]

I love these. I use them at shows to mix together a dip and to combine ingredients for whatever at home. I find them easy to handle and hold while mixing things. They will be great for melting chocolate and I think they'll be easier to manage than prep bowls for that as those glass bowls get hot.

 

[mspibb]

I have been looking at candy making stuff at the major hobby stores for the last few days (want a panoramic egg mold, I've not made them in years and can't find my molds) and I noticed that they had silicone bowls for melting chocolate. I didn't try them to make my eggs since I needed to keep the chocolate hot for a while, I used the double boiler.

 

[DebPC]

I always used the microwave for melting chocolate. Just have to make sure to melt at 50% power. But I definitely see your point for using the double boiler if you need it to say hot for awhile.

 

[DebPC]

Just curious- how are these selling? Anyone selling a lot of these?

 

[mmilus]

I used one of these last week to melt some chocolate and was surprised at how hot it gets. I thought silicone wasn't supposed to conduct heat as well as glass but it was hard to hold on to while drizzling the chocolate.

 

[byrd1956]

can anyone really read the measurements on the side?? My guests are not interested because they are hard to read.