But say your skills tend more toward cooking and baking. A number of new silicone products included bakeware, spatulas, trivets, tongs and oven mitts.
Picking up a muffin tray made by his company, Silicone Zone's Michael Karyo bent it in half to show its flexibility. Silicone tools won't scratch, he said, and the bakeware is virtually nonstick.
"Isn't it going to melt?" folks ask him. The answer, of course, is "No."
"Then they say, 'I don't believe you.'"