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Many home chefs have not embraced this newest line of bakeware products, some of us have been slightly cautious to let go of our traditional metal and glass baking pans that have stood the test of time, long enough to even test out a silicone pan.

The bright colors attract our attention, their general construction that raises a few skeptic bakers’ eyebrows. However, manufacturers have been vary quick to open our eyes of folding pans and overflowing batter, by designing optional or campanion racks or ‘sleds’ that provide the much-needed stability especially for the larger pans.

If you haven’t yet tried one of these, you may be pleasantly surprised, I was. I started out slowly at first with a muffin pan shich were very economical no big risk, and these quickly captured this baker’s heart.

Goodby medal bakeware -hello silicone bakeware. They can take the heat and they can take the fridged cold in a freezer. After a year and considerable mileage they still look like new.

Since my silicone muffin pan passed the test, it was on to bigger silicone bakware, a general purpose loaf pan. To grease or not to grease the bakeware was the question, and I opted for “not” trusting the silicone would work its releasing magic.

Result were terrific-quick even baking and cooling. What was most impressive was the easy loaf removal. A slight twist or should I say movement of the pan, and sides just pulling away, showing an evenly baked delicious banana bread loaf that gently rolled out onto the cutting board.

The pan is slightly smaller than a regular bread pan, which trquired transferring a small amount of batter to a single-serving pan. No problem, neighbors were happy to share in the baking.

Silicone bakeware is made of FDA-approved food grade silicone and should denote this on the packaging label. Each piece of silicone has its own limitation as to manufacturer recommended maximum oven temperature, and this is uaualy stamped on the product.

Cleaning the bathroom is one of the most hated household chores. But it need not be so bad if you follow these 10 tips.

1. Clear Out the Junk

If every surface is covered in bottles and accessories of all descriptions then keeping your bathroom clean will take a lot more work than if your surfaces are relatively clear. Get rid of anything you haven’t used in the last two months.

2. Reduce the Cleaning Products

You need very few cleaning products to keep a bathroom clean – usually just a toilet cleaner, an antiseptic cleaner in a spray bottle and a general purpose bathroom cleaner that can be used on sinks and showers and tiling. Why then have you got 14 cleaning items taking up space under your bathroom sink? I don’t know either. Throw out all the extra cleaning products cluttering up the room.

3. Put it Away

Store the beauty and bathroom cleaning products that remain out of sight in an enclosed storage area so that they don’t attract dust or make the bathroom untidy. You should be left with just a few items on the counter tops. It’s nice though not essential if these are part of a coordinated bathroom set. If you don’t have enough storage in your bathroom store those products you don’t use often elsewhere in your home rather than cluttering up your bathroom.

4. One Off Big Clean Up

If you bathroom is looking particularly dirty, make a big effort to give it a thorough clean. Use whatever bathroom products you need and lots of elbow grease to get your bathroom sparkling clean. You should only ever have to put in this much effort once.

5. Daily Swish and Swipe

Once you have got your bathroom looking good, it’s time to keep it that way with a daily quick clean. Squirt a bit of toilet cleaner into the toilet and swish around with a toilet brush. Wipe down the top, handle and seat with antiseptic wipes or solution. Wipe around the bathroom sink with a bit of bathroom cleaner and a paper towel. And for the shower…

6. Clean While You’re in it

While you take your daily shower use a cloth or non-scratch cleaning sponge and cheap bubble bath or shampoo and wipe quickly around the shower walls and floor so that no soap scum ever gets a chance to build up. (Great for getting rid of the shampoo or shower gel you just didn’t like).

7. Wastebasket Magic

It’s much easier to put something in the trash and not leave it hanging around if there’s a wastebasket in the room. No idea why it should be so much trouble for family members to put stuff from the bathroom in the trash in other rooms but they just don’t. A wastebasket in the room works magic by helping you keep your decluttered bathroom clutter free (or in this case trash-free)!

8. Add Air!

Mildew quickly builds up from the hot steamy atmosphere in the bathroom if you don’t air it. Make sure that you also use an extractor fan while you are in the shower and open the windows if you can after use.

9. Launder It

Regularly clean shower curtains, bath mats and towels so that everything stays looking like new. Buy machine washable items to make life easier.

10. Have a Bathroom You are Proud of

If you love your bathroom it will feel far easier to keep it clean than if you hate the d

So you don’t have enough places to put towels in the bathroom. Well, you can cram them all under the sink, but you’d like to make some little more visible so everyone knows where they are. It may be time to bring in some bathroom towel racks and put them to work in your home.

Before you run to the store and just grab the first towel racks you see, take some measurements. Towel racks come in a number of different sizes. In this particular article were going to take a look at some of the various lengths the towel racks can come in and how these may suit your bathroom.

For the most part, you can find bathroom towel racks off the shelf in sizes from 7-12 inches and 18-24 inches. These are your general-purpose towel racks to serve a couple of different jobs. Those 7-12 inch racks are meant for by the sink. They’re perfect for 1-2 hand towels that people will need to use after they wash their hands. Those 18-24 inch towel racks are more suited in the area of the tub or shower. They can hold one or two large towels that people are going to need when it’s time to dry off.

Deciding which rack size you need is going to depend a little bit on what you want and what space you have to work with. For example, if you’re working with a small bathroom and are very cramped for space you may have to stick to the smaller end of things, a 7 inch rack by the sink and an 18 inch one by the tub each only hold one towel. But, if you have a little more space to work with, and choose the larger options you can double up on your towels.

If you’re in that category of people with the smaller bathroom, and less width for putting up bathroom towel racks, there’s something else you can think of as well, don’t forget that you have height to work with. What this means is that you could get multilevel racks that can still hold multiple towels but in the space of a rack that can only hold one. This allows you just one more option of being able to get everything you want even though you’re working with a very confined space.

Finally, if you’re not worried about a budget but know exactly what you want in your bathroom, there is always the option of customizing the towel racks that you’ll have. Plenty of companies will make racks to your specifications, meaning you get just what you want but you will have to pay a little more for it.

When decorating your bathroom, there are a number of little details that you don’t want to forget. Making sure you have enough racks to hold towels is one of them. Luckily, as soon as you take a few measurements you will not have a problem putting these racks in place in your home and put them to work for you and your guests.