Choose from a large selection of molds pans dishes plates that provide the perfect tool for any edible creation.
Baking pies in ceramic dishes.
Ceramic stoneware metallic glass and time after time the glass one has turned out perfect results.
Ceramic bakeware cooks more evenly than most metal pans and retains heat after baking making it ideal for casseroles cobblers and other dishes that are best enjoyed warm.
While i don t love working solely with aluminum pans they are a great heat conductor and also cool off quickly making them a good candidate if you re pre baking or.
To find the best i gathered eight 9 inch pie dishes.
Aluminum plates especially coated ones are typically not knife friendly meaning if you use a knife to cut the finished pie you will likely cut through or scratch the coating.
Care and use of ceramic bakeware is not complicated but due to its fragile nature and the way it conducts heat you must take certain precautions.
This helps set the shape of the crust in recipes with a lot of fat.
Like glass dishes ceramic pie dishes conduct heat slowly and evenly which helps yield uniformly golden crusts and thoroughly cooked fillings even when making fruit pies like apple that.
In most cases the difference was only a few minutes.
If a recipe calls for a baking pan we mean for the pan to be metal.
Two metal three glass and three ceramic and put them through their paces by baking a blueberry pie and a key lime pie rest assured there.
It can keep your crust from slouching.
Aluminum pie plates heat and cool very quickly making them an optimal choice for pies that require blind baking or par baking.
If we call for a baking dish it s either glass or ceramic.
Most fruit pies bake at a temperature between 350 degrees f 175 degrees c and 450 degrees f 230 degrees c.
But ceramic plates vary more in thickness and density than glass plates and in our tests some ceramic dishes took longer to fully bake a pie.
I ve tried baking pies both savory and sweet in just about every type of pie plate imaginable.
Glass is nonreactive which means food won t pick up any lingering flavors from a glass baking dish.
I much prefer baking with an 8 9 pan and won t use anything larger.