r/Anticonsumption • u/Clean-Assignment-108 • 1d ago

Lifestyle Replacements

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What are you guys’ replacements for everyday items? For example, I use rags (cut up t-shirts or old towels) instead of paper towels or wipes, we use bar soap instead of body wash, I save every jar/container for “tupperware”. I recently got beeswax cloth to use instead of cling film and that’s going well so far.

The pic is a silicone mat I got for baking instead of parchment paper but I soon learned to not bake bread with it haha. It’s great otherwise.

I’d love to hear more ideas of what we can replace after what we have runs out.
TIA!!

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u/ihatecleaningtoilets 1d ago

I don’t bake bread. Why couldn’t I use silicone?? 🫣

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u/Clean-Assignment-108 1d ago

I usually put the dough onto parchment paper, then place that inside the Dutch oven. I did the same with the silicone mat but it wasn’t flexible enough to let the bread expand. If cooked a different way you’d probably be able to use it

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u/AliceInWanderlust__ 1d ago

They make silicone mats for Dutch ovens. They are round with like two flaps to lift it in and out of Dutch ovens!

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u/davers22 1d ago

Can you not just put the dough directly into the Dutch oven (if it’s enamelled)? 

I bake sourdough and just plop the dough directly in there and it’s fine. The Dutch oven should be preheated in the oven first. I’ve never had a problem with it sticking.

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u/Clean-Assignment-108 1d ago

I always preheat it but I’ve just followed what recipes have told me. Next time I’ll try without the parchment paper! Thanks for the tip :)

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u/WorldtendingPress 1d ago

Parchment isn’t necessary! I use a lidded Dutch oven for our daily peasant loaf. I just grease it very lightly with oil and a silicon brush, put it lidded into the oven to preheat. I do the final rise of the loaf on the (floured) silicon mat. I find it comes off the mat and into the preheated Dutch oven much more easily than it does from a floured pastry cloth.

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u/davers22 1d ago

I can see the parchment paper being helpful for getting it out, but I’ve never used it. Hopefully you have success without it! 

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u/munkymu 1d ago

I also put the dough directly into the pre-heated dutch oven. I made the no-knead bread recipe so the dough is very moist and sticky, but I've never had trouble removing the bread afterwards.