How can I reuse or recycle crême brulée/dessert ramekins?
We’ve had an email from Jeroen:
We designed a lid for the Bonne Maman crême brulée cup that we usually through away.
Here you can see a short movie about it:
While I’ll admit the lid is very cute and well made, it didn’t occur to me that it needed one before reusing — my boyfriend John’s mum used to buy us frozen crême brulées from a door-to-door dessert salesman (…really) and the ceramic dishes have been part of our kitchenware ever since – one is currently employed as tea-bag dish and the others are in regular circulation as dipping sauce or olive stone bowls. We’ve also had similar glass ramekins from Gu desserts in the past: they’re my go-to bowl for making small amounts of marinade or spice mixes, or cornflour paste. And from a REDUCE point of view, which is the most important of the 3Rs, they’re great for refilling with homemade mousse or what-have-you.
Do you reuse glass or ceramic shop-bought dessert cups for anything special?
Did you ever think about making candles and putting them inside the dish? They would make great gifts.
Patti
as candle holders or to collect change in.
I love it… I wish I was as created and gifted as you! What a fantastic idea!
my mum sometimes makes marmalade/jam for charity sales & fetes – nowadays she often presents it in glass gu dishes, with cellophane covers. this makes more dishes (more money); obviously it needs to be used straight away but buyers don’t always want a large jar and they appreciate that the dish is attractive enough to be put straight onto the table.