Silicone for bread pans?

I"m trying to get away from the need to either grease bread pans or line them with parchment. (Although we reuse the parchment til it's downright crispy.)

Have you used silicon mats instead?

Would you recommend this? Not?

Why?

Thanks!

I use silicon sheets to line my sheet pans for things like bagels and pretzels. I like them. Typically I get them at Costco during Christmas season. They come in a multiple pack so are more reasonably priced.

baking sheets: yes (+1 with Stacy).
sourdough or boules in dutch oven: yes.

Bread in breadpan: no. If i could fit it in there i would, but i've never seen a silicone sleeve that fits in a breadpan. I'm not thrilled with the actual silicone bread and cake pans, so I stick with other options-- I bake all our bread, and for loaf bread I grease and sprinkle something- oats, flaxseed, cornmeal, whatever, most of the time that stops sticking.

I use silicon cake pans and muffin cups, but for bread, I still lightly grease the metal loaf pans. The silicon pans are incredibly useful for cakes and muffins. Oh -- I make rolls out of bread dough sometimes, and those can go straight into the silicon muffin cups without greasing, and they come right out. Or I grease the metal muffin tins without silicon, and the rolls have a nice crunchy crust.

I think when the dough is very wet, and I bake the bread long enough to dry a bit and shrink, it pulls away from the pan and would come loose from metal pans. But I don't want to risk it so I still grease them, though lightly. If I had iron pans I would try not greasing.