For the record, I just made pancakes this morning with my (I'm astonished to realize and ashamed to admit) cast-aluminum, non-stick coated griddle and my Kitchenaid Silicone Turner. It worked very, very well. I'll note that the silicone is, in addition to being heat-resistant, slippery; it has that same oily feel that teflon has. None of the pancakes I made had any inclination to tear at all, and, while it is thicker than the nylon ones, as I said before, the edge comes to a pretty sharp point. All in all, it did an excellent job.