Baking Pies In Ceramic 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.

Baking pies in ceramic dishes.

In most cases the difference was only a few minutes. 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. 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. 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.

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. To find the best i gathered eight 9 inch pie dishes. This helps set the shape of the crust in recipes with a lot of fat.

Most fruit pies bake at a temperature between 350 degrees f 175 degrees c and 450 degrees f 230 degrees c. Some of the newer pie dishes range from 9 1 2 10 and i find these produce deep sloppy pies. 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. If a recipe calls for a baking pan we mean for the pan to be metal.

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. 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. I much prefer baking with an 8 9 pan and won t use anything larger.

Glass is nonreactive which means food won t pick up any lingering flavors from a glass baking dish. 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. Ceramic stoneware metallic glass and time after time the glass one has turned out perfect results.