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Air Baking Pans - luvnit - 03-07-2009
I have a few of these Air Bake baking sheets and one cake pan. I really dislike the cake pan. The baking sheets seem to work for cookies, but aren't much good for anything else. Does anyone else use these and like them?
Re: Air Baking Pans - sharonjo - 03-07-2009
Just the opposite for me--I have an air-bake cake pan (9x13 with a plastic-y cover) that I use once in a while with pretty good results. The cookie sheets, I don't like at all for cookies. The bottoms don't brown properly and they seem to spread too much. I've found that the cookie sheet makes a pretty decent pizza peel though!
Sharon
Re: Air Baking Pans - labradors - 03-07-2009
I only use them when baking air. Otherwise, I used standard cake pans, and baking sheets with parchment.
Re: Air Baking Pans - ozarklm - 03-07-2009
I used to have a cake pan, but I guess I didn't wash it correctly and water got in it....so now I just use normal cake pans. The only thing I really liked about the Airbake cake pan was that it had a hard plastic cover, which made it easy to store cakes, etc. I also had the cookie sheets, and I liked how they worked for cookies, but the size was odd. I have a Thermador oven and like to bake lots of sheets of cookies at one time, and I couldn't do that with the airbake cookie sheets. So now I have regular cookie sheets.
Re: Air Baking Pans - luvnit - 03-07-2009
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I've found that the cookie sheet makes a pretty decent pizza peel though!
Sharon
LOL! That's funny because that's what I was using them for tonight! It just got me thinking that I seldom use them. You are right, they make a pretty good pizza peel.
Re: Air Baking Pans - DFen911 - 03-08-2009
I had a set of cookie sheets and gave them away. They just don't cook the same or brown the same. I find by using my good heavy set pans with parchment paper my cooking times are spot on and the cookies get the perfect color on the bottom. These same pans are used for a variety of pastries, and meats.
Re: Air Baking Pans - chef_Tab - 03-08-2009
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I only use them when baking air.
Or wind cookies, Rob? haha.
I have only the cookie sheet, do not like it for cookies, but oddly enough, it is our pizza peel as well!
Re: Air Baking Pans - Lorraine - 03-08-2009
What are air baking pans? I've never heard of them.
Re: Air Baking Pans - cjs - 03-08-2009
Have heard of them, but have never had one. Lorraine, they are double thickness with air between them, aren't they?
Re: Air Baking Pans - luvnit - 03-08-2009
Yes Jean, they are baking sheets made of two layers that allow an airspace between. This insulates what you are cooking and helps keep things from overbrowning or burning.
The baking sheets are okay for some things, but I find the insulated 9x11 cake pan to be useless.