Why is silicone kitchenware a new choice for kitchen and home environmental protection?

Why is silicone kitchenware a new choice for kitchen and home environmental protection?

In China, people may not have much contact and deep understanding of the silica gel industry and its products, but in fact, the development of the global silica gel industry has a long history. Since the invention of silicone hose in the 18th century marked the beginning of the development of silicone industry, the silicone industry has been booming.

Compared with foreign countries, China's silica gel industry started relatively late, but based on China's huge consumption time and raw material supply market, China has become the main production market of silica gel in the world. According to the market tracking data released by global market insights, the global organic silica gel market scale was US $15.3 billion in 2016. In 2019, the global organic silica gel market scale has increased to US $18.5 billion, with an average annual compound growth rate of 6.5%.

In this context, in fact, silica gel products have quietly entered our daily family life. I believe many people can find when watching short videos of food baking that the baking scrapers and brushes used by many food creation bloggers are no longer traditional, plastic, wood or metal products, but silica gel kitchenware. For those in need, there are naturally businesses and brands that focus on the R & D and production of silica gel products, such as Partita variation home, focusing on the design and R & D of silica gel products. Its products include many kitchen utensils such as silica gel spatula and silica gel cake mold, and even mother and baby products such as silica gel milk bottles and silica gel bibs.

Why do food bloggers and brands choose silica gel kitchenware instead of traditional materials in the selection of kitchenware materials? There are roughly the following three points.

1. From nature, the material is environmentally friendly

In order to be light and cheap, many kitchen appliances will have plastic more or less. However, the white pollution caused by plastics has caused serious harm to water quality, soil, resources and environment. With the continuous innovation of ecological civilization system, green development has become a social consensus. Silica gel is a green environmental protection material. Its main component is silica, which is common in nature. It will not cause harm and burden to the environment and human body.

2. Material properties, health escort

Consumers who have used plastic kitchenware should know that most plastic products may be able to hold boiling water, but they can never rest assured that they can be used for frying. Even for plastics with good quality, the highest temperature resistance is mostly about 120 ℃, while the frying temperature can generally reach about 200 ℃.

Silicone colloid is flexible and has strong advantages in thermal stability (temperature resistance range - 40 ℃ ~ 230 ℃). Even after baking and burning with high-temperature open fire, the decomposed substances are non-toxic and tasteless white smoke and white dust. This characteristic makes the safety and stability of silica gel much higher than even food grade plastic materials, which is more reassuring in the application of kitchenware.

3. Antibacterial and mildew inhibition, convenient cleaning

In addition to plastic, metal is also a common material of traditional kitchenware. However, due to the high thermal conductivity of metal, it is easy to cause scald, so wood products also have an extremely important place in traditional materials. However, wood products also have a fatal pain point, that is, after a long time of immersion or in a humid environment or season, it is easy to grow mold, burying a great potential safety hazard to the body.

Silica gel benefits from the macromolecular microporous structure and is insoluble in water or any solvent. It is a highly active adsorption material. Silica gel is often used as adsorbent or desiccant in practical application. Therefore, after the use of silica gel kitchenware, the liquid cannot be dissolved, but can be dried immediately, which is not easy to breed mold. In the cooking environment with high oil, salt and vinegar, it is not easy to be corroded by oil, salt and vinegar.

To sum up, compared with traditional kitchenware, silica gel kitchenware has the characteristics of long service life, good stability, not easy to corrosion, temperature resistance and non-toxic. More importantly, it will not cause harm and burden to the environment and human body. It is a new choice for kitchen and home for people who pay attention to health and environmental protection.