Excellent EASY TO CLEAN Silicone Placemats that Grip to Prevent Sliding Dishes & Great for Baking
These are excellent silicone placemats: reasonably thick, and nice and sturdy, and they look good. We use them at home every day on these 14"x18" plastic cafeteria trays that we bought from Amazon, which they are a perfect fit for: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06Y226G55/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1&fpw=almThe "gripping" quality of the silicone prevents plates, bowls, drinking glasses, etc. that are placed on the placemats from sliding around on the plastic trays that we use them on. This is a very important feature for people like us who often eat in front of the TV instead of at a table (often eating in bed or on a sofa or chair), and for people who have to carry food trays across a distance in their home to serve meals to others. I believe that they would also be great to use with children, preventing lots of drops and spills by the kids.Sometimes, we also use these placemats as large trivets to place hot baking pans and baking sheets on that have just been removed from the oven. The heat-resistant silicone that these placemats are made of does an excellent job of protecting the kitchen countertop beneath them from heat damage. According to Wikipedia, silicone has low thermal conductivity, and it also has thermal stability (meaning that it doesn't freeze or melt easily), and is able to withstand a wide temperature range of -148°F to 482°F (−100°C to 250°C.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiliconeAlso, these placemats are very easy to clean (Don't listen to the other reviewers who have said that they are difficult to clean, because they simply haven't figured out the right way to clean them yet!) I have a cleaning brush with a row of bristles that spans about 8" that I bought at a dollar store, and a couple of quick passes over these placemats with this brush easily removes all of the crumbs and other sticky food bits that have fallen on the placemats (I leave the placemats on the plastic cafeteria trays while I quickly brush them off after each of our meals.) If you accidentally drop any wet food on the placemats while eating, you can easily clean off that area of the placemat using a sponge or a paper towel. In the event of a big, wet spill, such as accidentally knocking over a drinking glass on the placemat, you can easily wash off the placemat using water from the kitchen sink (and soap or detergent, if necessary.)We love these silicone placements so much that we also bought some smaller-sized ones to use on the smaller-sized plastic cafeteria trays that we sometimes use instead of our bigger ones. I highly recommend them.