Roasting sleeve: how to choose and use?

For modern housewives, a wide variety of kitchen appliances have been created today, the main task of which is to facilitate and accelerate the cooking process. Among them there are very multifunctional and expensive, but there are also budget options, such as, for example, a special sleeve for baking.

Despite the relatively recent appearance on the market, he quickly gained popularity among housewives. But what is the peculiarity of such a product, what are the subtleties of its use, we will understand in this article.

In fact, baking bags or sleeves are not such an innovative invention. Professional chefs have used them before. But ordinary housewives they became available not so long ago, but immediately fell in love.

This device for baking dishes looks like an ordinary film roll, but with a special texture. If you cut off a part from a single piece, you can get a sleeve of the required length. And for its intended use, it is necessary to tightly tie the ends of the roll. To do this, you can use both special clips included in the kit, and thin sections of the sleeve itself.

Besides, You can prepare meals in a bag without the use of fats - all products are prepared in their own juice. That is why heat-resistant packages are very popular among those who try to lead a healthy lifestyle and appreciate the true taste and benefits of products.

At the same time, packages of some manufacturers are suitable not only for baking, but also for freezing food. And for cooking in a slow cooker, a vacuum bag is best. It is more dense and durable, and products cook in it faster.

But also many experienced housewives say that it is this appliance that is ideal for steaming foods, especially those that can quickly and strongly boil, having lost their shape. For example, fish. The baking sleeve allows you to cook tasty, varied and healthy food in various ways, while the hostess does not have to wash dishes from fat and juices for a long time after cooking.

And further: a baking bag and a sleeve are slightly different things, although often the housewives believe that they are one and the same. A sleeve is a one-piece fabric from which you must cut a piece of the required size yourself. A bag is an individual package of a certain size, which before preparation must be tied only on the other side.

Culinary heat-resistant package, like any other device for cooking, has many advantages. We list the main ones.

• Availability. Such a device is sold everywhere, and is quite inexpensive.
• Rich assortment. On sale there are sleeves of various manufacturers, different lengths and degrees of density. There are sleeves with clip-on clips, and there are also with simple ties.
• Universal or single use. Such a device can be suitable for use exclusively in the oven, and can be used for freezing or steaming.
• Simplicity and safety of use. Today it is already scientifically proven that the sleeve does not cause harm to the human body even with strong heating and will not emit any toxic substances.
• The ability to cook without the use of fat. Here you can cook all-natural food of any kind.
• The roasting sleeve can be used to prepare a wide variety of products - vegetables, mushrooms, fish, meat and poultry.

There are some drawbacks to this device.

• Single use. Each piece of roll can be used only once.
• Unscrupulous manufacturers make it from too thin a film which, when baked, is inflated and under pressure the steam simply breaks. As a result, not only a baking sheet, but also the entire oven can stain.

Many people mistakenly believe that at too high temperatures the sleeve may begin to secrete compounds that are dangerous to the human body, with which products are saturated. In fact, this is not so at all.

At high temperatures, this substance breaks down into ordinary water and carbon dioxide. If the sleeve is too carbonized during operation, it means that it is made of low-quality film. But even from it there will be no harm to health - only charred particles on the baking sheet.

In order to purchase a really high-quality baking sleeve, which can only be used with pleasure, it is necessary to listen to the recommendations of specialists.

• Choosing a sleeve should only be made by a well-known brand. Before this, you should study the reviews of those who buy such a device regularly.
• If possible, you need to smell your potential acquisition. The sleeve must not have too strong toxic plastic aroma. In a good way, in general, there should be no smell.
• You need to touch the edge of the sleeve with your hands - it should not crumble in your hands and be too soft. Otherwise, even at the time of bookmarking products, it will break.

The specific sequence of actions and recommendations depends on where exactly in the future cooking will take place. But there are a few simple rules that are always binding.

• A piece of the sleeve must be cut off with a margin. On average, its size should be one and a half times the amount of food that will be cooked in it.
• It is imperative that you inspect the device before laying products and make sure that there are no punctures or holes in it.
• The ends of the sleeves must be carefully and securely tied. You can fix them either with special clips, or ties that are attached to it.

Many recipes indicate that products must first be placed in the sleeve, and only then pour spices and seasonings. In the future, after tying it, shake it several times to distribute it evenly. But often, especially when the sleeve is of poor quality, at that moment it breaks. therefore better to mix all the ingredients with the necessary additives first, and only then put everything in a bag.

Many are surprised that you can cook in the microwave using a baking sleeve. It’s really a pleasure to cook like this:

• cut off part of the sleeve of the required length;
• prepare all the products for cooking, mix them with spices;
• tie a sleeve on one side, put food in it, tie the ends on the other side;
• place the workpiece in a ceramic bowl or bowl for a microwave;
• make several punctures on top of the sleeve with a needle so that the vapor pressure does not burst it;
• put the sleeve in the oven, choose the cooking time from 15 to 25 minutes, depending on the type of food and the size of the pieces.

In principle, baking food in the oven in the sleeve is necessary in the same way as cooking it in the previous method.

That is, they cut a piece of film of the required length, tie it on one side and lay all the products. Then tie the ends on the other side, place the sleeve on a baking sheet, make a pair of punctures in it on top.

However, you can bake in different ways - with the formation of a crust on products and without it. In the second case, after placing the products in the oven, you only need to wait for the necessary time and remove the sleeve from it. But to get a crust, about 15 minutes before the end of cooking, cut the sleeve from above and slightly push it apart.

It turns out that you can use such a heat-resistant roll in a slow cooker. Proponents of this method say that in this way the products are heated more evenly, and they get a special taste and aroma.

But only the manufacturers of this household appliance themselves do not agree with this. They do not prohibit the use of a sleeve for cooking in this appliance, but consider it simply meaningless. If you still want to experiment, then the sequence of all actions will be the same as when cooking in the oven.

At the very beginning of the article, we already said that housewives often confuse a sleeve and a baking bag. So, if a roll of heat-resistant film was not at hand, then you can use special packages for baking. Unlike the sleeve, they do not need to be cut into pieces, but they are tied only on one side.

In extreme cases, instead of bags and sleeves, it is allowed to use foil for baking. But only it needs to be folded in several layers for reliability and placed in a special baking dish, and not just on a baking sheet.

The modern culinary sleeve for baking is an inexpensive and universal assistant for every housewife. It not only saves time on cooking familiar dishes, but also frees you from washing dishes too much, and also makes it possible to prepare tasty and healthy dishes from familiar products.

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