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?

Thanks.

I use homemade bake even strips and mine are two layers of towel.

Thank you. I was thinking either two or three layers.

do you use old towels or new ones will work as well?

I'm sure new ones would work, but I am going to use old ones.

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.

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.

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.

Please let us know what works best. I need some but they are always one of those things that I just do without.

I use small binder clips to secure my baking strips. They're easy to attach and detach.

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!

thanks! off to try them out =D

Thanks forthe idea. I tried it today and it worked great!!

Thanks for the wonderful idea. I was debating on buying those, but now I will just try your way.

hey gals... thanks for the idea... i'd been thinking about buying the baking strips but was having a hard time justifying the cost... and i just happen to have some dish towels i was about to replace... and I LOVE using the binder clips! can't wait to try this with my next cake

Hi i just made my own bake strips last night after seeing a post just cut strips from my old towl and the ends overlaped all i did to hold in place was use a paper clip worked great. I soaked the strips and just rung them out a tiny bit i wanted them to stay pretty wet.My cakes seem to come out pretty good and i made a 8x3,10x3 and 12x3 cake. Loved the idea when i saw it and best was i already had the towel compared to spending $9 for a bake strip.

*Stupid question time*

In using the homemade baking strips, would it matter if they are used in a gas oven vs an electric oven? I will be making the cake for my daughters baby shower tomorrow. I'm going to use the new commercial gas oven at my church since I can bake everything at once.

I fold up a few sheets of newspaper, soak them in water, wrap aluminum foil around them so the newspaper doesn't dry out, and attached them to the cake pan with binder clips. Always a success.

um.......you can make homemade baking strips??? lol :$

I was just gonna buy the Wilton one?