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chutzpah
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Sat May 03, 2008 12:59 am |
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My baking strips are a wreck and I need new ones. I just purchased a sewing machine and thought that at some point I had read that folks had made their own from terry toweling.
My question is.... how many layers of toweling?
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minkiemoo
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Sat May 03, 2008 1:20 am |
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I use homemade bake even strips and mine are two layers of towel. |
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chutzpah
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Sat May 03, 2008 1:52 am |
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Thank you. I was thinking either two or three layers. |
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cupcakeshoppe
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Sat May 03, 2008 4:26 am |
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do you use old towels or new ones will work as well? |
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chutzpah
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Sat May 03, 2008 6:09 am |
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I'm sure new ones would work, but I am going to use old ones. |
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kansaslaura
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Sat May 03, 2008 6:29 am |
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I recently made some baking strips from some terry cloth scraps I have. They were new. I doubled them and they're too thick. I am going to make some new ones with only one thickness. I did not like the way the outside edge of the cake came out and the cake was hard to remove from the pan. I never had that problem until these new thick strips.
How are you planning to fasten them? I'm using a large saftey pin right now but am toying with the idea of velcro--wonder if it can take the heat. |
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foots2
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Sat May 03, 2008 6:33 am |
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I took old bath towels and cut strips about 4inches wide the length of the towel. I didnt sew anything, I just fold them in half when I need to use then. I wrap them around the pans and tuck the ends into its self and go. Ive been using them for a year or 2 now. I tried the bake strips from the store and I think the towels soaked and wrung out work better for me. And they virtually cost nothing. |
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chutzpah
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Sat May 03, 2008 6:46 am |
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I'm going to use the long pins that came with my old ones. I guess it depends on how thick the orginal toweling is whether one folds or not, and how many times. |
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doitallmom
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Sat May 03, 2008 6:57 am |
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Please let us know what works best. I need some but they are always one of those things that I just do without. |
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daranaco
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Sat May 03, 2008 7:21 am |
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I use small binder clips to secure my baking strips. They're easy to attach and detach. |
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dinas27
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Sat May 03, 2008 7:25 am |
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How are you planning to fasten them? I'm using a large saftey pin right now but am toying with the idea of velcro--wonder if it can take the heat. |
oh no velcro! might melt and heated plastic gives off toxic fumes! |
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cupcakeshoppe
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Sat May 03, 2008 8:07 am |
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| foots2 wrote: | | I took old bath towels and cut strips about 4inches wide the length of the towel. I didnt sew anything, I just fold them in half when I need to use then. I wrap them around the pans and tuck the ends into its self and go. Ive been using them for a year or 2 now. I tried the bake strips from the store and I think the towels soaked and wrung out work better for me. And they virtually cost nothing. |
do you wring them out pretty well or just so it's not dripping? |
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kansaslaura
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Sat May 03, 2008 8:11 am |
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They need to be just damp; wring them out well.
I LOVE the idea of binder clips!
..and I cross the velcro off the list! |
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cupcakeshoppe
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Sat May 03, 2008 8:23 am |
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thanks! off to try them out =D |
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bakerliz
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Sat May 03, 2008 2:06 pm |
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Thanks forthe idea. I tried it today and it worked great!!  |
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