Baking Pies In Ceramic Dishes

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.

Baking pies in ceramic dishes. I much prefer baking with an 8 9 pan and won t use anything larger. Create a personal pie with an individual mold a delicious tart with a large dish or a number of decadent treats with a multi cavity pan this collection of pie dishes tart pans has everything you need for your baking needs. If we call for a baking dish it s either glass or ceramic. If a recipe calls for a baking pan we mean for the pan to be metal.

This helps set the shape of the crust in recipes with a lot of fat. 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. Choose from a large selection of molds pans dishes plates that provide the perfect tool for any edible creation. 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.

To find the best i gathered eight 9 inch pie dishes. Aluminum pie plates heat and cool very quickly making them an optimal choice for pies that require blind baking or par baking. Some recipes call for baking the pie in a 450 degree f oven to begin with then turning down the oven to about 350 degrees f. I ve tried baking pies both savory and sweet in just about every type of pie plate imaginable.

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. 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. Most fruit pies bake at a temperature between 350 degrees f 175 degrees c and 450 degrees f 230 degrees c. It can keep your crust from slouching.

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. In most cases the difference was only a few minutes. Glass is nonreactive which means food won t pick up any lingering flavors from a glass baking dish.