Baking Guides

If your mince pies have ever come out with a pale, soggy base while the filling has welded itself to the tin like cement, the tin is a more likely culprit than the recipe. Mincemeat is sugar and fa …

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A 1lb loaf tin measures about 19cm (7.5 inches) long including the rim, with a top opening of roughly 16 x 10cm and a depth of around 6.5cm. It holds about 0.8 litres, which is a loaf made from rough …

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UK loaf tins come in two standard sizes. A 1lb loaf tin is about 19cm long and holds roughly 0.8 litres (450g of dough); a 2lb loaf tin is about 25cm long and holds roughly 1.5 litres (900g of doug …

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UK muffin tins come in three cup sizes. A mini muffin tin has 4.5cm cups holding about 30ml each, a standard muffin tin has 7.5cm cups holding about 120ml, and a jumbo (sometimes sold as a "deep" o …

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An egg ring and a crumpet ring do the same basic job: they hold something round in shape while it cooks in a frying pan. The difference is the build. A typical egg ring is thin metal or silicone, a …

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There are two ways lining a loaf tin goes wrong. Either the paper wrinkles and bakes pleats into the sides of your loaf, or you discover, at the exact moment you turn the tin over, that the paper itse …

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There's a noise every baker knows and nobody enjoys: the metallic pop from inside the oven, ten minutes into a bake, as a thin tray gives up and buckles. If you've heard it, the tray was almost certai …

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In June, Ella of Ella's Better Bakes got in touch and asked whether we would send her our 12-cup mini cheesecake tin to test. The arrangement was simple: we send the tin, she gives an honest review, g …

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Most non-stick tins start brilliantly. Loaves slide out, washing-up takes ten seconds, and you wonder why anyone bothers with anything else. Then, somewhere around the end of the first year, the coati …

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There's a particular sound a cheap baking tray makes a couple of minutes after it goes into a hot oven: a sharp metallic crack as the base buckles. If you've heard it, you already know what this guide …

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Every piece of bakeware I've looked at recently seems to carry the label "PFOA-free." It's printed on the box, listed in the bullet points, sometimes mentioned twice. And that's fine — but it's al …

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Short answer: it depends entirely on what the tin is made of — and for most tins sold today, the answer is no. If your new tin has a non-stick coating, seasoning it does nothing useful and event …

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