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Glass vs. metal baking pans
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Size isn’t the only thing that counts when choosing a pan from the many in your
cupboard. The material it’s made of will affect both the baking time and the color of
your breads, pies, cakes, and brownies.
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Glass pans give food a darker, browner crust, so they’re generally best for breads
and pies, which benefit from a deeply baked exterior. Because of the way glass transfers
heat in the oven, it will bake both faster and darker than most metal pans (the exceptions
are very dark, heavy-gauge metal pans, like the black<a
href="http://www.okbakelife.com/bakeware/cake-pan/" target="_self"> cake pans</a> used in
professional kitchens. These intense heat conductors cook quickly and will also turn out
appealing, dark crusts.)
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Lighter-colored pans give you a paler crust, which is what you want with delicate
cakes and brownies. Light-colored aluminum and shiny stainless-steel pans reflect more
heat than glass and dark metal pans. This may mean your baked goods will need a bit more
time to finish cooking, but it also means the sugar and chocolate in these pastries won’t
be as likely to burn. Avoid flimsy <a href="http://www.okbakelife.com/bakeware/muffin-pan"
target="_self">muffin pan</a>, which often bake unevenly and tend to warp at high
temperatures. If you don’t have a high-quality pan, it’s worth investing in one (see
“Pros Pick the Best Baking Sheets,”).
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Martha Stewart was placing two apple crisps on a sheet pan to catch the juices that
bubble out during baking when she said, “If you saw how many sheet pans I owned, you
would be quite horrified. I have a lot of sheet pans.”
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And she’s accumulated them over a long time: Ms. Stewart was first introduced to
commercial <a href="http://www.okbakelife.com/bakeware/loaf-pan/" target="_self">loaf
pan</a> — the thick, uncoated aluminum baking sheets with 1-inch-high rims and rolled
edges — by Fred Bridge in the 1970s. She had a catering business in Connecticut, and he
owned Bridge Co., a professional kitchenware store on 52nd Street in Manhattan.
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“That’s where I really started learning about high-quality, restaurant-quality,
long-lived equipment,” Ms. Stewart said. “I bought my best things from Mr. Bridge.”
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On her first TV show, two decades later, she used <a
href="http://www.okbakelife.com/bakeware/cake-pan/9-inch-round-nonstick-cake-pan.html"
target="_self">9 inch round nonstick cake pan</a> on set, showing them to home viewers
repeatedly — though not intentionally. Like most professional chefs in America, and
bakers in particular, Ms. Stewart relied on those pans even if she didn’t showcase them.
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And yet this utilitarian piece of equipment has become a star. That can be attributed
in part to a surge of sheet-pan recipes from food publications, cookbooks and bloggers, a
new genre of weeknight cooking that provides an entire meal on the pan. Cousins of one-pot
meals, sheet-pan suppers combine vegetables, protein and starch in a single piece of
cookware, but offer a larger canvas to compose a range of shapes and colors. The actual
cooking requires nothing more than passive waiting.
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If you've ever debated on baking a cake in a glass pan versus a metal pan, or had
cookies burn on the bottom at 350 ºF within a "reasonable" amount of baking
time, this post is for you! Find out everything you need to know about baking pans and
bakeware, from how the material and the colour of the pan have an impact on baking to why
<a href="http://www.okbakelife.com/bakeware/cake-pan/7-inch-in-cm-cake-pan.html"
target="_self">7 inch in cm cake pan </a>may warp, bend, or rust.
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The point of this post isn't to have you throw out all your bakeware and buy new.
On the contrary, what I am hoping is that this post will help you better understand how
your baking pans affect your baking and how to make adjustments so that you know how to
make adjustments and adapt, regardless of what bakeware you're using! If you want to
easily convert recipes from one pan size to another, I recommend investing in the complete
baking conversion charts bundle to get conversion charts for ingredients, pans,
temperatures, volumes, weights, and more.
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