If the hostess was able to find a successful baking dish, then an excellent dish is guaranteed just as great mood and pleasure from the culinary process. After all, it often turns out that the successful recipe is spoiled, because the poor-quality form burned all the time or did not allow the dough to be baked. Can you find baking utensils that won't let you down? Sure you may! The main thing is to have patience and some knowledge, as well as to determine for yourself the clear goals of using the form, frequency of application and expectations.
How to choose a suitable form?
When choosing a form, two main points should be taken into account: how often one has to bake and which products are simpler or those that can be attributed to culinary masterpieces.
If baking has to be done often, then we recommend purchasing dishes of simple geometric shapes. Ideal - split form with smooth edges. It is easy to handle and easy to clean.
If you are a creative culinary specialist and love various experiments, then you should buy figured products. So you have to spend less time on independent know-how to change the shape of the biscuits.
When using one form or another, important indicators should be taken into account.
- Heat resistance materials. High-quality baking dish must withstand up to 350 degrees.
- Is it permissible use the dishes in the microwave or put in the refrigerator.
- What type of plate is the mold used for? - for electric or gas oven.
- Whether all fastenings and a lock look reliably. None of the parts should not dangle, and the lock should close tightly and open without squeaks. If you really have a quality form, then it will serve you for many years.
Main characteristics
There are forms of different heights and diameters. So, for cakes and bread there is a rather high tableware (from 24 to 26 cm) with a smaller plane, and for cakes there are forms from the lowest along the sides, up to 20 cm.
Most often you can find dishes from 15 to 26 cm in diameter. Buying 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 the detachable base will be aluminum or silicone. Some prefer glass or steel molds, since the walls of the materials help cakes and baking to bake quickly, eliminating burning. Although for the sake of justice it is worth noting that modern forms almost all 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", can be easily removed from baking. On the market most often sold round mold with removable sides. Many housewives, seeing what a soft and flexible material, doubt and draw in the imagination of eerie pictures of how silicone melts over their unhappy cupcakes. However, these are completely unfounded concerns. Silicone can easily heat up to 250 degrees - the limit of many furnaces. 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.
From the bad news - very soft sides of the product. They are short-lived, often darken and melt or deform upon contact with open fire.
- Aluminum container. Attracts, of course, accessibility. Aluminum is a cheap material that heats up easily, which reduces the cooking time by half. Baking does not stick to the edges and perfectly baked. But the disadvantages include the fact that this form is very difficult to wash. Sometimes aluminum dishes are deformed.
- The form with a glass bottom. This is an option when the investment really pays off with interest. The split 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 professionals one hundred percent. Glass is thick and heat resistant. It washes very easily and withstands the highest temperatures. Since the bottom is glassy, the housewives can easily find out if the dish is ready. If you remove the side, then you get a stand for the cake.
By the way, you can cut the cake right on the glass. It is not subject to mechanical deformations.
Kinds of Bakeware
Of course, it is easy to imagine that modern forms take a variety of outlines, but the square and the circle are classics of the genre and favorites of housewives at all times.
For celebrations purchased models in the form of a heart or corrugated. Such assemblies help bake the most spectacular cakes, cakes, puff pies. If you like all sorts of casseroles, the square detachable form will become your favorite. It is great that such shapes round the corners so that it is easier to wash the structure. But the round mold is universal and is simply mandatory for the shopping list. You can cook absolutely everything in it - biscuits, cakes, pies and other snacks.
There are special dishes for baking cupcakes. It resembles a turret, but in reality it is a rounded container with a hole in the middle. This is not a fad of the manufacturer, but a purely practical trick: so the dough can be completely baked inside.
Experienced housewives prefer silicone as a material for muffins, because then they are much easier to remove from the molds, rather than trying to shake out of the metal blanks, tapping briskly along the bottom to drop out faster.
For special occasions or for those who, perhaps, bake very rarely or do not want to mess around 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 such a “frame” you can perfectly bake cupcakes, muffins and cakes. The paper does not dampen and helps the finished product to keep its intended shape.
How to use split designs?
There is nothing tricky to use. You just need to collect all the blocks, brush with oil (in the case of silicone dishes it is not required) and you can pour in the dough. If you are worried about leaks, you can cover the bottom with parchment paper. When your product is ready, just take it out of the molds and put it in the dishwasher or sink.
Baking dish - the right acquisition, which will allow you to give free rein to your culinary imagination and turn ideas into reality.. It is only necessary to pick up your assistant.
How to choose a baking dish, you will learn from the following video.
