If the hostess was able to find a good baking dish, then an excellent dish is guaranteed in the same way as a great mood and pleasure from the culinary process. After all, it often turns out that a successful recipe is spoiled, because the poor-quality form always burned or did not allow the test to bake. Can I find baking dishes that won't let you down? Sure you may! The main thing is to have patience and some knowledge, as well as to define for yourself clear goals for using the form, frequency of use and expectations.
How to choose a suitable form?
When choosing a form, two main points must be taken into account: how often do you have to bake and which products are simpler or those that can be attributed to culinary masterpieces.
If you often have to bake, then we recommend purchasing dishes of simple geometric shapes. The ideal option is a detachable shape with smooth edges. It is easy to handle and easy to clean.
If you are a creative culinary specialist and like various experiments, then you should buy curly products. So you will have to spend less time on independent know-how to change the shape of biscuits.
When using one form or another, important indicators must be taken into account.
- Heat resistance of materials. A quality baking dish should withstand up to 350 degrees.
- Is it permissible use dishes in the microwave or refrigerate.
- What type of plate is the mold intended for - for electric or gas oven.
- Are all fastenings and locks reliable? None of the parts should hang out, and the lock should close tightly and open without creaks.If you have a really well-made form in front of you, then it will serve you for many years.
Main characteristics
There are shapes of different heights and diameters. So, for Easter cakes and bread there is a rather tall dish (from 24 to 26 cm) with a smaller plane, and for cakes there are shapes from the lowest on the sides, up to 20 cm.
Most often you can find dishes from 15 to 26 cm in diameter. The purchase will depend only on your culinary plans.
Materials depend on whether it is detachable or monolithic. Monoliths are aluminum, cast iron, ceramic or metal. And detachable base will be aluminum or silicone. Some prefer glass or steel molds, as the walls of the materials help cakes and pastries bake quickly, eliminating burning. Although for the sake of fairness it is worth noting that almost all forms have a non-stick coating.
There are several varieties of especially popular forms that are most often used by housewives.
- Sliding round silicone mold. Such dishes have a number of advantages. It is soft, adjustable, bends “under the dough”, it can be easily removed from baking. In the market, a round mold with removable sides is most often sold. Many housewives, seeing what soft and flexible material are, doubt and paint terrible pictures in their imagination, how silicone is melted over their miserable cupcakes. Nevertheless, these are completely groundless fears. Silicone can easily heat up to 250 degrees - the limit of many ovens. Another good news is that such dishes are easy to clean and do not require lubrication during baking. The edges of the detachable part can be connected with special hooks.
Of the bad news - it’s very soft sides of the product. They are short-lived, often darken and when in contact with an open fire melt or deform.
- Capacity made of aluminum. Attracted, of course, by accessibility. Aluminum is a cheap material that easily heats up, which reduces the cooking time by half. Baking does not stick to the edges and is perfectly baked. But the disadvantages include the fact that such a form is very difficult to wash. Sometimes aluminum cookware is deformed.
- Glass bottom shape. This is an option when the investment really pays off. The detachable part is made of steel, and the bottom is made of glass. It looks not just stylish, but also copes with the tasks of culinary specialists one hundred percent. The glass is thick and heat resistant. It is washed very easily and withstands the highest temperatures. Since the bottom is glass, the housewives can easily find out if the dish is ready. If you remove the sides, then you get a stand for the cake.
By the way, you can cut the cake directly on the glass. It is not subject to mechanical deformation.
Types of Bakeware
Of course, it is easy to imagine that modern forms take a variety of shapes, but the square and the circle are the classics of the genre and the favorites of the hostesses at all times.
For celebrations, models in the form of a heart or corrugated are purchased. Such assemblies help to bake the most spectacular cakes, cakes, puff pastries. If you like all kinds of casseroles, then the square split shape will become your favorite. It’s great that such shapes are rounded off to make it easier to wash the structure. But the round mold is universal and is simply a must for a shopping list. In it you can cook absolutely everything - biscuits, cakes, pies and other sweets.
There is a special dish for baking muffins. It resembles a turret, but in reality it is a rounded container with a hole in the middle. This is not a quirk of the manufacturer, but a purely practical trick: this way the dough can be completely baked inside.
Experienced housewives give preference to silicone as a material for muffins, because then it is much easier to remove them from the molds than to try to shake them out of metal billets, gently tapping the bottom so that they fall out faster.
For special occasions or for those who maybe bake very rarely or don’t want to mess with dirty structures at all, there is an unusual way out - paper forms! You can use them only once, because they are disposable, but in this “frame” you can perfectly bake cupcakes, muffins and cakes. The paper does not dampen and helps the finished product maintain its intended shape.
How to use detachable designs?
There is nothing tricky to operate. You just need to collect all the blocks, grease with oil (in the case of silicone utensils this is not required) and you can pour the dough. If you are worried about "leaks", then the bottom can be covered with parchment paper. When your product is ready, simply remove it from the pan and send it to the dishwasher or sink.
A baking dish is the right acquisition that will allow you to unleash your culinary imagination and turn ideas into reality. You just need to pick up your assistant.
You will learn how to choose a baking dish from the next video.
