The primary application of all 'kitchen' tools is to assist those of us who need heat (ovens), drip trays (pans and trays), work surfaces when it's cold outside, dish-washers for cleaning castings, etc.
The secondary benefit of such household extravagance may prove to be that there is food on the table and clean plates, although that depends on the skills of the alleged 'owner' of these gadgets. Happiness or the lack of it on the part of the party of the second part should never deflect from the mission!
I can only write that while the Management is out, and of course I'll recant the instant I'm caught. Not sure if Herself has any applications for silicon, although I suppose in one or other of its forms it could be transformational, physiologically speaking . . . .