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How to Use Silicone Baking Dishes
If you haven't yet tried silicone bake ware, it's time to give this new baking time-saver a try. Silicone baking dishes look very different from the customary glass or metal bake ware but silicone has...
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Silicone bake ware resembles traditional metal or glass bake ware in shape but looks like brightly colored plastic. Unlike plastic, silicone can withstand oven temperatures of up to 500 degrees...
View ArticleHow to Use Corning Microwave Dishes
CorningWare makes several lines of stoneware bakeware for a variety of uses in the kitchen. Often a cook can use these bakeware dishes in the microwave oven or a conventional oven and then go on to...
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List of Baking Tools
There's a vast array of baking tools available for the beginning baker as well as the accomplished. A few essential baking tools are all that's needed to get you started, though, and as you add to your...
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How to Bake a Cake in a 3D Pan
Baking a cake in a 3-D pan gives dimension and character to your dessert. From bunnies to Disney princesses to race cars, 3-D cake pans come in many varieties suitable for almost any special occasion....
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Types of Pizza Pans
A carefully selected pizza pan is a necessity for anyone attempting to master the perfect pizza. There are a few different options available on the market and each has a specific use. Knowing and...
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How to Remove Soap from a Pizza Stone
Never use soap to clean a pizza stone unless you like soap-flavored pizza. A pizza stone, also known as a baking stone, consists of a large, porous slab used to evenly transfer the heat of the oven to...
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How to Make Copper Cookie Cutters
Creating copper cookie cutters can be an exciting and fun opportunity to express your own creativity. Making cookie cutters is also a relatively easy task.
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Information on Use of Smartware Bakeware
Most people lead very busy lives. In two-income households where both adults work, have children involved in school activities and sports, single parents who work full time or even retired folks with...
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Different Kinds of Baking Tools & Equipment
Realtors know that the smell of fresh baked goods can help sell a house, according to an article in the "Los Angeles Times." It is no wonder, because most people respond positively to the smell and...
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When it comes to baking a cheesecake or other dish that requires even, clean edges, nothing beats using a springform baking pan. Springform pans have an adjustable side ring that opens, allowing for...
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How to Bake in Clay Flower Pots
One of the earliest manners of baking foods, such as bread, was done on stone. Clay pots were introduced in the Bronze Age and were placed over the stones to act as small ovens. Although you are more...
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Differences Between Pyrex & Regular Glass
Pyrex is the registered trade name for heat-strengthened, or tempered, glass kitchenware. Pyrex items include cake pans, casseroles, tea pots and measuring cups. First manufactured by Corning, Inc., in...
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How to Bake in a Pyrex Bowl
In baking, often a pan with a certain shape will be called for in order to create a specific recipe. If you find yourself lacking a round baking pan, take a close look in your cupboard and you may find...
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How to Care for Silpat
Silpats are non-stick baking mats that chefs use to insulate and evenly distribute heat. They can be used in ovens or freezers and are commonly used to make desserts and pastries. Silpats are made of a...
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How to Convert the Baking Time From an 8" x 8" Pan Size to Mini Muffins
Whether you adjust recipes out of creative expression or necessity, there are times when you must substitute either ingredients or baking pans. Because baking times vary greatly between different ovens...
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Kinds of Baking Tools & Equipment
Whether you are baking bread, cookies or cakes, there are a few basic necessities to getting the job done. Many have their personal preference, depending on the desired outcome. Regardless of what...
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How to Clean Stone Pizza Pans
Cleaning stone pizza pans often only requires wiping them down with a paper towel, but some scraping and scrubbing might be necessary to eliminate burned-on food. Clean a pizza stone after baking pizza...
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How to Condition a Pizza Stone
Conditioning a pizza stone will help to extend its life, and it involves rubbing it with vegetable oil and baking it in the oven for 20 minutes. Maintain a pizza stone for perfectly baked pizza with...
View ArticleSilpat Safety
A Silpat is a brand of silicone baking mats used for non-stick baking. They are made of weaved silicone fiberglass fibers that are made into a rectangular mat. With proper care and handling, a Silpat...
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How to Use a Clay Cookie Mold
For centuries, bakers have used wooden and clay molds to create intricately detailed picture cookies. As far back as the 14th century, Swiss and German bakers were using cookie molds to bake the...
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Kitchen Baking Tools
Stocking your kitchen with sturdy, versatile baking tools gives you a head start on success. There is no need to spend a fortune on fancy gadgets when there are tried and true kitchen implements that...
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Substitutes for Jelly Roll Pans
A jelly roll pan is a baking sheet with sides that are 1 inch deep. They typically are made of aluminum steel, since this makes them more rust resistant. Aluminum also is ideal for cooking, as it...
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Silicone Pan Liners Information
The newest wave in cookware revolves around silicone. From bakeware to liners, silicone baking products have hit the market. In fact, silicone pan liners can replace disposable parchment paper, as they...
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Silicone bakeware has a rubber-like texture and tolerates a wide range of temperatures. You can use it from below 90 degrees Fahrenheit to 580 degrees Fahrenheit, according to "The Science of Good...
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How Do You Treat a New Wooded Roll Pin?
A heavy wooden rolling pin is an indispensable tool to both the professional pastry chef and amateur baker alike. Most are made of dense hardwoods such as maple, and higher-end models contain steel...
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How to Make a Flexible Mold for Baking
Although many cooking stores carry silicone molds, they don't always have a diverse selection from which to choose. If you have a unique baked treat in mind, you may want to make your own mold. Many...
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Information on Cooking in Clay Pots
Cooking in clay pots is a refreshingly original way to prepare food, and relatively simple. Cooks have used clay pots for centuries in a variety of cuisines, including South American, Asian and...
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How to Cook in a Cast Iron Skillet on an Electric Stove
An iron skillet is one of the most versatile cookware products available for the modern chef. Not only is it capable of cooking on any gas or electric stove top, but it works in ovens and even over...
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How to Clean Nonstick Cookie Sheets
Nonstick cookie sheets are meant to be a breeze to clean, since food should be easier to remove from nonstick cookware than from standard cookware. Handle nonstick cookie sheets with care when...
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Uses for Wilton Pans
Wilton has been making specialty cake pans for the past four decades and their creations are highly valued by collectors. The pans are available in traditional shapes and sizes as well as special...
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What Is a Spring Form Pan?
A springform pan is a unique type of two-piece pan designed for baking special desserts like cheescakes, tortes, flourless cakes and delicate desserts. It consists of a round bottom and a curved top...
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How to Make a Custom Cookie Cutter
You can buy cookie cutters in all sorts of shapes and sizes. But sometimes you want something out of the ordinary. When that time comes, consider making your own. It's easier than you'd think, and they...
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Information on Baking Tools
Baking is a cooking technique that uses dry heat from an oven to cook foods. While any foods can be baked, baking is usually associated with sweets, such as pastries, cakes and cookies. Bakers use...
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Types of Fluted Ceramic Bakeware
Ceramic bakeware is often preferred by professional bakers due to the improved heat radiating and retention qualities ceramics offer. Metal pans lose heat quicker and are more likely to burn a baked...
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How to Make a Garlic Roaster With a Clay Pot
Added to oils, casseroles or sauces or spread on bread, roasted garlic is very sweet and delicious. But roasting heads in aluminum foil can overroast or even burn your garlic. Burned garlic is horribly...
View ArticleHow to Make a Pie Safe
Decades ago, people used pie safes to cool pies while keeping them out of children's and insects' reach. However, as time wore on, the traditional pie safe has evolved to different designs and served...
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What Are Bench Scrapers?
A bench scraper is a tool used by cooks and bakers. Its purpose is primarily to manipulate dough and other foodstuffs, as well as to remove excess flour and dough from work surfaces.
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How to Bake With Hot Stones
Hot stones are a tool used to bake food. It is a preferred method of baking when the goal is to make something crispy, since hot stones absorb more moisture than cookie sheets. Another positive feature...
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How Do I Measure Pie Plates?
Pie recipes call for specific pie plate sizes because the filling might need room to expand while cooking, and it must fill enough of the pie plate to look like a well-made pie. If you have several...
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How do I Stop Cookie Sheets From Rusting?
Cookie sheets that are washed and left to dry have a tendency to rust. While this isn't necessarily dangerous, it is unsightly, and if the rust isn't taken care of, it can affect the baking quality of...
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Cake Modeling Tools
Cake modeling can be as simple or as complicated as a decorator wants to make it. However, decorators must have the right tools for the job, or the results will not come out as planned. It is not...
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How Do I Take Care of a Calphalon Nonstick Frying Pan?
For years, cast iron pans were the No. 1 choice for most cooks, but today there is a new pan. No more coating an iron frying pan with oils and curing it in the oven for hours for a nonstick cooking...
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How to Use a Terra Cotta Garlic Roaster
There's nothing like roasted garlic to make your kitchen smell so good that you'll have your entire family salivating before dinner. Whipping up a batch of roasted garlic is so easy that nearly anyone...
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The Types of Tube Baking Pans
Tube pans are most often associated with bundt and angel food cake pans. These pans create a hole in the middle of the cake which makes a nice presentation, but the tube in the pan is there for a...
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Recommended Bread Machines
Bread machines come in a large selection of styles, prices and design. Only on the market for a dozen years, the bread machine's popularity is based on delivering freshness, the smell of warm,...
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How to Read a Measuring Cup
Measuring cups come in glass (Pyrex), plastic or stainless steel. They can be jug shaped, with the measures stamped on the side, or in small, specific-sized scoops with the measures stamped on the...
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How do I Purchase Cake Decorating Supplies?
Cake decorating supplies may be purchased for various projects. Different grades of these supplies exist for different levels of use. Consider the uses to which you will be subjecting your supplies...
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How to Remove Bread From a Fluted Cylinder Pan
Proper pan preparation and taking action as soon as the bread finishes cooking will keep your loaf intact as you remove it from a fluted pan. Unlike pans with straight sides, fluted cylinder pans have...
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How to Cook With Pyrex Dishes
According to the Pyrex company, 80 percent of American households have Pyrex brand glass bakeware in their kitchens. This popular brand of cookware proves safe and simple to use, offering the cook the...
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