Baking strips
I recently threw my hands up in the air and chucked all the foil and wet paper towels into the bin and bought some ready made baking strips. Brilliant, I thought, now I can get on with it. Then came the point where I was pricking my fingers trying to push the pin through to attach the strip around the pan. Arrrggh! A paper clip I thought would be great, but I only had plastic coated ones. Blast!
So I scouted around my house for a solution, and being an ex registered nurse I had a light bulb moment. I scrabbled through my medicine cabinet and found a bandage.
On the bandage to hold it in place whilst in use, was an aluminium 'clip' with teeth at either end. It worked a treat! I'm no longer trying to hold the strip and push pins in, and it will be fine to hold it together in the oven with out melting. So next time you have to use a bandage, keep the little aluminium clips to use on your baking strips.
I felt so smart and had to do a little dance.....so sad really. I keep vowing to get out more and get a life but I already feel like I'm trying to live 3 lives as it is! ; )
So I scouted around my house for a solution, and being an ex registered nurse I had a light bulb moment. I scrabbled through my medicine cabinet and found a bandage.
On the bandage to hold it in place whilst in use, was an aluminium 'clip' with teeth at either end. It worked a treat! I'm no longer trying to hold the strip and push pins in, and it will be fine to hold it together in the oven with out melting. So next time you have to use a bandage, keep the little aluminium clips to use on your baking strips.
I felt so smart and had to do a little dance.....so sad really. I keep vowing to get out more and get a life but I already feel like I'm trying to live 3 lives as it is! ; )
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Permalink Reply by Bunny Flowers on
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I don't have any baking strips yet but would like to buy some when I have more money. But I thought I'd share another thing I thought of that might work. Binder clips, the kind that are used in offices to hold papers together. They seem pretty strong. The kind that you fold back and squeeze to open, not ordinary paper clips, which might be too flat, although I don't know, they might work if they are big enough. Sometimes I have seen oversized ones.
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Permalink Reply by Bettina Dwyer on
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They would work too no doubt about it. The baking strips I have usually overlap a little so there's no fear of them separating you just want to keep them together. I didn't have any of those things when I decided that I was going to use them right NOW! you'd think that as a cake decorator I would have learned some patience by now. LOL
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Permalink Reply by Sharon on
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Those clips are what I use, they work just fine.
Bunny Flowers said:I don't have any baking strips yet but would like to buy some when I have more money. But I thought I'd share another thing I thought of that might work. Binder clips, the kind that are used in offices to hold papers together. They seem pretty strong. The kind that you fold back and squeeze to open, not ordinary paper clips, which might be too flat, although I don't know, they might work if they are big enough. Sometimes I have seen oversized ones.
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Permalink Reply by Gretchen Belsome on
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I have to find some of those. I don't have a pin on my baking strips, just these werid looking sort of clips, and they are a pain to get on. Those are better because you don't have to put one side underneath.... Thanks so much for sharing!!!!
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