Baking Pies In Ceramic Dishes

If we call for a baking dish it s either glass or ceramic.

Baking pies in ceramic dishes.

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. 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. Aluminum pie plates heat and cool very quickly making them an optimal choice for pies that require blind baking or par baking. 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.

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. 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. Glass is nonreactive which means food won t pick up any lingering flavors from a glass baking dish. 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.

Ceramic stoneware metallic glass and time after time the glass one has turned out perfect results. 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. Choose from a large selection of molds pans dishes plates that provide the perfect tool for any edible creation. 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. Some of the newer pie dishes range from 9 1 2 10 and i find these produce deep sloppy pies. This helps set the shape of the crust in recipes with a lot of fat. I much prefer baking with an 8 9 pan and won t use anything larger.

I ve tried baking pies both savory and sweet in just about every type of pie plate imaginable. To find the best i gathered eight 9 inch pie dishes. If a recipe calls for a baking pan we mean for the pan to be metal.