Customer Reviews

OXO Good Grips Silicone Pastry Brush

5 star:		(59)
4 star:		(14)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This is a great brush! Maybe I have just had bad luck, but it seems like the "regular" bristle brushes I've used would always shed bristles. On or in the food. Not only that, but they were soooo hard to get clean, they always seemed to keep a fine layer of grease.

This cleans like a dream in the dishwasher.

This brush may not work well for some things, like brushing chocolate into molds, but it works especially well for brushing on butter and is also good for wetting the sides of a pan you are making candy or caramel in or for brushing on glazes. I am thinking of ordering a few more just like it.

Leave it to OXO to perfect the pastry brush. Silicone always beats natrual bristles because you don't end up with bristles stuck in your food and you can thoroughly clean the brush. Put it in the dishwasher if you want. Try that with a natural bristle brush and you will have a clumpy mess on your hands.

The downside of silicone brushes is that they don't hold the liquid very well. OXO has solved this by adding a layer of silicone between the bristles that suspends the liquid. The liquid is released by the pressure of brushing the food. Cook's Illustrated likens the technology to the bubble wands we used to play with as kids. Who knew?!!

The brush feels comfortable in my hand. Although it is not as nimble as bristle brushes or my William Bounds Sili Gourment, this brush has replaced the William Bounds Sili Gourmet brushes as my favorite.

I bought this brush almost two weeks ago and I liked it so much that I decided to write my first review ever.

If you've ever used a natural bristle pastry brush, you know this is an item you will have to replace again and again because the bristles will start to clump up over time and retain odors. Not to mention the shedding.

This brush is amazing! For its trial run, I used it to spread olive oil over a chicken I was roasting. This brush picked up all the oil and coated the chicken nicely. Clean-up was also enjoyable as no soaking in soapy water required. This brush cleans up in a jiff.

I'll still keep a regular pastry brush for delicate jobs such as brushing cake molds with chocolate but this new brush will be used for the messier jobs.

I mostly use pastry brushes for just that: brushing melted butter over pastry specifically filo. I was really getting sick of the bristles shedding from my traditional bristle brush and was hoping that this brush would help. Well it does accomplish that: there is no shedding whatsoever. However, it is not as gentle as a bristle brush and pulls and tears the filo. It also doesn't spread the butter on the pastry nicely, more like uneven streaks. It seems to hold a fair amount of butter but the amount that actually gets deposited on the brushing surface is small. It is easy to clean though, so I'll give it a point for that.

So if you're buying this to use for actual baking/pastry applications, I'd say this is not a good brush for you. However if you're using it for brushing melted butter on a pan, waffle iron, etc. then this brush would be fine for the job.

The Product Dimensions: 10 x 4.2 x 1 inches listed for Item model number: 1071062 are wrong. This actually measures 7.5 x 1.5 (brush head width) x 1/2 inches.

Good product although I made the mistake of also using it to baste chicken and it retained the odor. I may have to get another one to use exclusively for pastry.

For buttering pans, it's OK I guess. It cleans SOOO much better than traditional brushes--which is why I got it. Might be better for glazes and thicker liquids.

I guess the same things that make it good for cleaning make it mediocre for brushing. I'm not throwing out my old bristle brushes yet, but I'm not throwing this one out either.

The first time I tried using this brush was to butter my ramekins for Panna Cotta. I usually reach for my bristle pastry brush. I had to go back to it since the silicone bristles of the Oxo was too soft for the butter unless it was melted. It should definitely work better with liquids with the small silicone loops under the silicone bristles. Clean up so far has been easier than with regular bristle brushes (dries faster, no staining, and doesn't remain greasy after cleaning).

PROS: Easier to wash clean and dry. Doesn't stain.

CONS: Wimpy silicone means you have to have a liquid for this brush to work.

I find that I'm giving up the fine control and substance retention of a bristled brush for the ease of clean up and durability of this one, which is okay. The trade off is worth it because I've never used a bristled pastry brush after first use/washing without either dropping bristles or inwardly shuddering at the thought that there's always gonna be gunk left on it that just can't be completely cleaned out/off. Yuck.

This one is sooo easy to swirl around in hot, soapy water and drip dry that I find myself using it almost daily.

Finally a brush that can be used around heat, works and can be cleaned well. It doesn't hold as much liquid (butter, glaze, sauce) as I would like, so I gave it four stars-but it is the best silicone brush I've found so far. I'm fed up with the bristle brushes that always bend out of shape, don't clean well and melt if used on anything hot.

I have been using mine mostly for oils. It picks up a decent amount for oiling a pan, mould or wok. It is non absorbent, inside the bristles are strips with holes which hold liquid for the bristles to distribute. That takes a little getting used to as it is quite different from a bristle brush--it picks up more and distributes faster. Its great for making pastries with oils like almond, sesame, walnut etc. It also does very well with glazes, but I would not try it with any thick material; but that's what a spatula is for any how.

Cleanup is easy and you don't have to use the dish washer but it is fine in the dishwasher; unlike the bristle brushes which degrade.

One feature that no one else has mentioned is that the bristles angle to one side so you can lay the brush down without getting oil or whatever on the counter or plate.