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Category Bakeware
The flagship product of Asa Selection, the 250 ° C Plus line, designed by Studio Original Designers 6R5 Network in Milan with Art Director Yvonne Schubkegel of Asa, is a collection of multi-function porcelain oven dishes with which you can cook, serve and eat. An all-in one solution, it does not cease to amaze the world of catering. The series consists of 36 pieces - each with a lid - which become a real “service system” for the table. All the elements, made of porcelain, are multi-functional and oven resistant. With each you can braise, roast, au gratin, set the table and serve. ASA Selection is the definition of a pure and modern style with ceramic and porcelain products. The collection’s concept design is based on an essential line, without handles, to enhance the pure shape of the porcelain. 250 ° C Plus was designed for the oven, and arrived on the table, becoming a symbolic element both in the universe of restaurants and homes.
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Baking has seen a huge resurgence throughout the pandemic with almost everyone attempting banana bread or something similar. And with baking comes the need for the right products for the job, because nobody wants a soggy pastry bottom. We look at some of the great bakeware items set to help any cook in the kitchen as they bake up a storm.
Viewpoints Jürgen Stein, Housewares Sales Manager, EMEA, PPG Has the trend in bakeware sales continued into 2021?
This year seems to have picked up right where the second half of 2020 ended with a continuous demand for bakeware. Lockdown restrictions all over the world brought consumers back to the kitchen and, even as countries do gradually open back up, we’re still seeing a strong demand for cooking at home, specifically with regards to bakeware.
Is there any new innovation in the category?
We’re always looking for new ways to innovate, which led us to the creation of our Skandia® Xtreme HR coating. This new, patented coating offers great nonstick release properties for both sweet and savory foods. Even more impressive, it doesn’t require greasing after its first use. The coating is an advancement of our Skandia® line for consumer bakeware.
What are your bestsellers?
Our range of Skandia® coatings remain very popular in the EMEA market. This includes our entry-level, 1-coat system, as well as our 2-coat Skandia® Xtreme coatings. Both are coil coatings that offer a highly efficient application process that eliminates overspray and wasted materials, and features a lower film thickness of 6-9 µm. These efficiencies are important benefits to our customers who are looking for more sustainable benefits, something we’re continuing to pursue in the development of new coil coatings.
Will you be launching new product this year?
At PPG, we have a strong focus on research and development and are constantly innovating for our customers. Our team continues to work on products for the future and, while we don’t have a timeline set just yet, we look forward to bringing a new innovation to customers within the coming year.
Designed for perfection
The Mason Cash Innovative Kitchen Lasagne Dish has unique design features that bakes perfect lasagne every time. Made from grey and cream glazed stoneware, the dish heats up gradually to give an even distribution when baking. The base features raised areas that act as air vents to allow for better heat circulation when placed on a baking tray in the oven. At 31cm long x 23cm wide x 7.5cm high, the lasagne dish has been precision made to fit lasagne sheets perfectly. Featuring right-angled corners so that lasagne sheets don’t have to be broken to fit them in snugly, the Lasagne Dish has steep high walls for higher layering and improved heat distribution.
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Precise pies
The Mason Cash Innovative Kitchen pie dish has unique design features that bakes perfect pies and quiches. Like other items in the Innovative Kitchen range, the dish is made from grey and cream glazed stoneware, and features raised areas on the base that act as air vents to allow for better heat circulation. The pie dish heats up gradually and along with the steep sides, these provide a more even heat distribution. The raised rippled interior pattern allows for a better pastry release from the dish, and the 2cm rim has a raised pattern on it that acts as an anchor to prevent the pastry from slumping back into the dish. This Pie Dish is oven, microwave, freezer and dishwasher safe.
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Better than ever
Mermaid is a renowned name in bakeware because it produces great bakes every time. Samuel Groves have launched their best Mermaid range yet, improving on earlier models by increasing the thickness and weight of the collection by 30 percent – making it more robust and even stronger.
The baking surface will not buckle, flake or rust and it has a lifetime guarantee. This hard-wearing, long-lasting range, isn’t just for use in the oven, it can be used on hobs (with the exception of induction) and under the grill, and you can even use metal utensils.
Mermaid Hard Anodised offers even and rapid heat distribution, an easy-to-clean smooth surface, products that are free from PTFE and PFOA and that are made in Great Britain.
The range includes kitchen favourites such as baking & roasting trays, baking sheet, Yorkshire pudding tin and more.
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Viewpoints
Jo Connolly, Mason Cash What’s big in bakeware for 2021?
All types of baking and bakeware have benefited from the pandemic, so we’ve concentrated on developing products that allow people to achieve baking perfection, as well as more traditional types of bakeware, such as our bread forms.
Is there any new innovation in the category?
Our new Innovative Kitchen range is packed with innovation. The range covers pie, quiche and lasagne dishes that are perfectly sized and shaped to get perfect heat distribution and bakes. Each dish features vented bases and small quirks like pastry anchors to prevent pastry from slumping, to right-angled corners so that lasagne sheets fit neatly into the appropriate dish. We’ve also gone back to our baking heritage and developed terracotta bread forms and baking stones, which give crispier, tastier crusts. It’s what good home bakers have been asking us for.
What are your bestsellers?
Our Pie and Lasagne dishes do very well.
Will you be launching new product this year?
We always launch new items, pandemic or otherwise. Our customers expect it, we love doing it, so we’ll continue to inspire and innovate.
Happy holidays
Holiday is Lenox’s most popular pattern with its iconic holly and berry motif and joining it is the new Holiday Handpaint Stripe collection. Fresh like a peppermint, the new range features candy cane stripes in festive reds and whites to create a signature holiday accent for almost everything in your kitchen. With bakeware, mixing bowls, accessories and more you really could ‘deck the halls’ with these festive collections and create all sorts of holiday sweets and treats.
