Why Use Baking Sheets or Tray Liners?

Baking sheets and baking tray liners are regularly used in both commercial operations and home kitchens. Choosing the right baking trays and tray liner material can greatly impact your baking experience. PTFE-coated fiberglass fabric baking trays and tray liners are a safe way to improve your baking efficiency.

 

Why use baking sheets or tray liners?

PTFE-coated fibreglass fabric baking sheets and tray liners are food safe.

 

Improve kitchen efficiency: use liners to reduce clean-up time. You spend less time scrubbing and more time cooking.

 

PTFE Coated Fiberglass BBQ Grill Mat

 

Improves food quality: Lining materials such as PTFE-coated fibreglass fabric meet FDA standards and it eliminates direct contact between food and hot metal. This prevents moisture in the food from "scalding off" and makes it tastier.

 

Less waste: The clean release of dough-based products reduces the amount of residue that would otherwise accumulate on a baking sheet or tray.

 

Makes food safer: Because cooked food never comes into contact with the pan, the chance of surface contamination is eliminated.

 

While there are several ways to line your baking trays and sheets, PTFE coating is often used for baking purposes because it can withstand the high temperatures associated with baking ovens - up to 500°F / 260°C.

 

Silicone Baking Liner

 

The advantages of using PTFE-coated fibreglass fabric as a baking sheet or baking tray liner are reduced downtime and cost savings compared to PTFE-coated metal baking trays.

 

When the PTFE coating on metal baking sheets wears off, the sheets must be taken off line and recoated by the coating supplier. If they cannot be recoated, they need to be completely replaced. Re-coating usually takes about seven to ten days.

 

This means seven to ten days of downtime for your business. To limit the loss of revenue due to extended downtime, bakeries and other food processing facilities tend to buy and maintain more trays than necessary.

 

PTFE Coated Fiberglass BBQ Grill Mat

 

On the other hand, lining baking sheets is a more economically viable option, as all you have to do is cut the sheets to size and place them into the trays, which takes barely a minute.

 

To ensure an easy baking experience with PTFE-coated fibreglass fabric liners, consider the following factors.

 

Baking temperature - The oven temperature should not exceed 500°F / 260°C, which is the maximum working temperature for PTFE coated fiberglass fabrics.

 

Sheet thickness - A 3 mil.(.003") thick PTFE coated fiberglass sheet is flexible and the least expensive, but has a shorter service life. A 5 mil. (.005") to 10 mil. (.010") PTFE-coated fiberglass sheet is less flexible and more expensive. However, it has a much longer service life. Choose the thickness of the sheet depending on how long you intend to use it.

BBQ Grill Mat

 

Cleaning Methods - It is generally recommended that the surface of PTFE coated fiberglass sheet be cleaned with soap and water. Avoid using abrasives as they can reduce the effectiveness of the sheet and negatively affect its service life.

 

Based on many years of experience and sampling of many products, we can offer marketing advice on the right product for your application needs. Our fabrics are made of woven glass fibre fabric with a transparent PTFE coating. These plastic-coated fabrics are non-toxic, odourless, tasteless and FDA compliant (21 CFR 177.1550). They are dimensionally stable over a temperature range of -100°F to +500°F (-73°C to 288°C) and offer excellent durability and very low elongation (<1%).

 

Contact us today for samples for your evaluation!