Can a Silicon Mat Help Save the World?
Can a Baking Mat Help Save the Earth?
Here in our research kitchens we have decided to do our part to save the Earth. This may sound corny or even dumb, but it is not. We are dedicated to making the globe a better place. For us, this starts in the kitchen.
Cooking does not have to a wasteful endeavor. It can be thrifty and €green' without making your meals bland, dull, or expensive to create. Actually, the OPPOSITE is true. By using the proper tools in your cooking, you can cut your costs while reducing the amount of trash and waste you create by your everyday baking.
We have already discovered many, so many ways to save money and reduce trash already by using a silicone cooking mat, but now another added savings we get from baking with a reusable mat compared to parchment or foil is the saving to the environment and Earth.
The expense of foil or parchment paper that is used one time and then thrown away is 9 times the cost on one silicone mat you can use over 2000 times. Let me restate that in hard number. A baking mat can be bought and delivered to your house for less than twenty dollars. The amount of foil you would have to buy to duplicate that one mat's usefulness is 180 to 400 dollars. The total cost will depend on which grade or thickness of foil or parchment paper you use. But, even the cheapest roll of foil you can buy is still NINE times as expensive to buy compared to one mat; 9 times.
The extra benefit to our world is that you use less materials that will wind up in landfills or that needs to be recycled to be sold again. So, using a mat is simply €greener' than using one time products. That feature alone makes using a mat a no brainer as one mat can take the place of forty eight rolls of stuff that you would just be throwing away. Crumpled up, that is several trash bags full of refuse.
The energy saving from having to NOT carry that stuff to a landfill or to me it down and reforge it saves a lot of natural resources also. Aluminum is not an easy thing to reprocess anyway. Also, before foil can be recycled it has to be cleaned. Soaking a silicone cooking mat in hot water and dish soap is the better alternative compared to the industrial process used to clean materials.
So, get a re-usable mat and go green. Do all you can to save the planet one meal at a time!
Here in our research kitchens we have decided to do our part to save the Earth. This may sound corny or even dumb, but it is not. We are dedicated to making the globe a better place. For us, this starts in the kitchen.
Cooking does not have to a wasteful endeavor. It can be thrifty and €green' without making your meals bland, dull, or expensive to create. Actually, the OPPOSITE is true. By using the proper tools in your cooking, you can cut your costs while reducing the amount of trash and waste you create by your everyday baking.
We have already discovered many, so many ways to save money and reduce trash already by using a silicone cooking mat, but now another added savings we get from baking with a reusable mat compared to parchment or foil is the saving to the environment and Earth.
The expense of foil or parchment paper that is used one time and then thrown away is 9 times the cost on one silicone mat you can use over 2000 times. Let me restate that in hard number. A baking mat can be bought and delivered to your house for less than twenty dollars. The amount of foil you would have to buy to duplicate that one mat's usefulness is 180 to 400 dollars. The total cost will depend on which grade or thickness of foil or parchment paper you use. But, even the cheapest roll of foil you can buy is still NINE times as expensive to buy compared to one mat; 9 times.
The extra benefit to our world is that you use less materials that will wind up in landfills or that needs to be recycled to be sold again. So, using a mat is simply €greener' than using one time products. That feature alone makes using a mat a no brainer as one mat can take the place of forty eight rolls of stuff that you would just be throwing away. Crumpled up, that is several trash bags full of refuse.
The energy saving from having to NOT carry that stuff to a landfill or to me it down and reforge it saves a lot of natural resources also. Aluminum is not an easy thing to reprocess anyway. Also, before foil can be recycled it has to be cleaned. Soaking a silicone cooking mat in hot water and dish soap is the better alternative compared to the industrial process used to clean materials.
So, get a re-usable mat and go green. Do all you can to save the planet one meal at a time!
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