“You rest dough in a basket to get the nice pattern on your bread. Well - I can assure you that it won't happen with these plastic ones. It's a great idea to use plastic in this case because it won't become moldy especially when you live in the tropics. In making these plastic baskets, they could have and should have made the design exactly the same as the cane ones. Unfortunately they did NOT. Should have bought only 1 to try - but no! - I bought 6! :-(”