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What are your thoughts on “ food safe” silicone, muffin molds, popsicle molds etc?

Ask Me Anything (Office Half Hour)

Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Half Hour)

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This event was on July 15, 2025

Join Chef Dan Marek in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to course-specific questions, to how to turn your cooking passion into profit or simply hearing the perspective of a professional chef, Chef Dan is ready to answer them all.

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Question

Sue Baker

What are your thoughts on “ food safe” silicone, muffin molds, popsicle molds etc?

Answer

I, you know, for the food safe silicone, um, we do all kinds of things using like agar agar in those to be able to make kind of like gelatin kind of jelly things as well that are plant-based. Um, same with the muffin molds and the Popsicle molds. All those things, uh, we use in our house pretty regularly. Um, uh, you know, as, as long as your food's safe, you're okay and just make sure to wash them while in between uses. Sometimes they'll build up a little bit of a powdery residue on them too, so just make sure to, um, you know, most of 'em are dishwashers safe, so, uh, I usually just throw mine in the dishwasher to be able to keep those clean. But fun things to be able to do with kids, the more I can get my kids into cooking the the happier I am. So those kinds of things are fun things to do with them.

Dan Marek

Director of Plant-Based Culinary & Dev

*Dan Marek* is a chef educator who has been teaching vegan and vegetarian cooking for over 15 years. At Rouxbe, he is our Director of Plant-Based Culinary and Development where he helps develop content, classes and builds courses for many of our partners. Dan is a board member of Slow Food Austin, the Institute of Child Nutrition, and Conscious Capitalism. He has earned his BA in Journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University and holds certificates in Nutrition from Cornell University. Prior to his role with Rouxbe, Dan worked with Whole Kids Foundation training teachers and food service at schools across the country on nutrition and culinary best practices. He also worked as a Healthy Eating Educator at Whole Foods Market’s flagship store in Austin, TX, was a personal chef for some of Austin’s elite business people, taught classes in culinary techniques at Austin Community College, The Natural Epicurean, and Le Cordon Bleu. Dan also regularly volunteers cooking or speaking about nutrition for the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Marathon Kids, Health Alliance for Austin Musicians, and the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Austin and Central Texas.