Baking tin greasing/ paper

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Just wondering if it's best to bake brown bread in a greased tin or lining the tin with grease-proof paper? I've used both methods and found that grease-proof paper was best because it saves on needing to clean out the tin. Does anyone know where I can buy individual inserts for baking tins. Also thinking that maybe flexible silicon baking moulds don't need greasing?

Also, I've been trying out some brown bread recipes thanks to this site, but is it best to use whole seeds or to blitz them in a blender before adding to the mix?
Thanks in advance.

Cakerbaker

I find Dealz or euro 2 shops are the cheapest for individual tin inserts. It's €1.50 for 10 in Dealz.

Shenshen

I usually cut some baking paper to size and line the tin with that. Can bi a little awkward maybe, but I don't bake bread all that often anyway.

Also, I'd leave the seeds whole. Much better texture that way.

phormium

I don't line the tins in general, just grease them but I like to sprinkle seeds around the greased tin, they bake into the outside of the bread then and don't fall off when you cut it like ones sprinkled on top but of course you do have to clean the tin afterwards. Regards adding them you can leave them whole or blitz whichever you prefer.

I have found the silicone tins still need greasing for bread as there is no fat in bread so it was inclined to stick anyway.

Be careful with some of the cheaper paper tin liners as they are not non stick, no problem for a cake as the fat in the cake means it will not stick but can be an issue with brown bread as again no fat in it, I used a pack of them once and not a hope would it come off the bread cleanly, could get strips off but not it all.

Dizzyblonde

I find the liners too fussy for brown bread. I grease the tin well then throw in a spoonful of flour, tapping and moving the tin until it coats the inside. The bread never sticks when you use this method.

dudara

A light grease and a strip of greaseproof is my favourite technique. You don't need to fully line the tin, just have enough lining to help pop the cake out. My mother uses butter wrappers to line the tin.

chuckles30

don't make bread myself, but my mother just uses a good shake of flour in the tin - yes the tin has to be washed - but it gives the proper homemade bread look with the flour on the bottom. Scrape off the excess flour once it cools down