Kitchen Smarts by The Editors at Cook's Illustrated

Author:The Editors at Cook's Illustrated
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: America's Test Kitchen
Published: 2017-10-31T04:00:00+00:00

While they’re not our favorite vessels, you can reuse disposable baking pans a few times, as long as you wash them by hand between uses.

We don’t typically use disposable pans for baking because they don’t hold heat well and aren’t as stable as metal, ceramic, or glass options, so baked goods don’t brown well in them. That said, we’ve found that you can somewhat overcome these issues by placing your filled disposable pan directly on a preheated rimmed baking sheet in the oven.

Using this hack, we tried baking three batches each of brownies, sticky buns, and pie in succession in the same disposable baking pans (hand-washing them after each use). We tested with our winning disposable pan, Glad OvenWare, which is made of sturdy plastic, and with a generic disposable aluminum pan. After three rounds in the oven, both the plastic and aluminum pans showed some wear and tear but didn’t exhibit any significant issues. A Glad company representative confirmed that the OvenWare pans should last for “at least three uses” on average.

Many recipes call for placing the oven rack in “the middle position,” but my oven has six rack positions, so there is no true middle. Should I use the upper-middle or the lower-middle rack?

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