How to Choose Bakeware
Start with your available space, intended use, cleaning requirements and the manufacturer's specifications. These products are examples to compare, not a claim that we tested or ranked them by sales.
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Products and practical buying considerations
Standard 9x13 pans can bubble over when a holiday casserole or lasagna is filled to the top. This Pyrex glass dish is 2.75 inches deep, up to 50% deeper than Pyrex basics dishes, and comes with a BPA-free lid for storing leftovers.
Who it may suit: For holiday hosts, casserole and lasagna makers, and anyone who bakes and stores in the same dish.
What to check: Measure your fridge shelf height for the lidded dish, and note the plastic lid is for storage and the microwave, not the oven.
Cookie season goes faster when one tray can cool while the next one bakes. This set gives you small, medium and large carbon steel cookie sheets with a nonstick coating and silicone handles, and they stack to save cabinet space.
Who it may suit: For holiday cookie bakers and anyone who wants a few sheet sizes for roasting and baking.
What to check: Measure your oven before buying, and use soft utensils so the nonstick coating lasts.
Handled rolling pins can leave pie dough thick in the middle and thin at the edges. This tapered French pin is a solid maple dowel that pivots easily for turning dough into even circles, and the wood holds a light dusting of flour.
Who it may suit: For pie, pastry and sugar cookie bakers who want one simple rolling pin that also stores flat in a drawer.
What to check: At 20.5 inches long, measure your drawer. Hand wash only and rub it with food-safe mineral oil now and then so the wood doesn't dry out.
Carrying a pie to a holiday dinner usually means balancing foil over a hot dish. This 9-inch borosilicate glass plate comes with a leakproof lid for storing and transporting, and its wide rim gives you something to hold with oven mitts.
Who it may suit: For Thanksgiving and holiday bakers who bake pies, quiches or crumbles at home and bring them somewhere else.
What to check: It is a standard 9-inch plate about 2.1 inches deep, so deep-dish recipes may overflow. The lid is for storage, not the oven.
Thin, flimsy cutters bend out of shape and leave ragged edges in sugar cookie dough. This set of seven Christmas shapes is made in the USA from food-safe steel with a rolled top edge to press on, in sizes from 3.5 to 4 inches.
Who it may suit: For families who bake and decorate Christmas cookies together and want the classic shapes: snowflake, star, tree, gingerbread man, angel, candy cane and reindeer.
What to check: They are hand wash only; dry them right away so the steel doesn't rust.
Cheesecakes and tortes stick to a regular cake pan, and turning them out cracks the top. This 9-inch springform pan has a nonstick coating, a removable bottom and a stainless buckle that opens the side ring so the cake lifts straight off.
Who it may suit: For holiday bakers making cheesecake, deep-dish quiche or layered desserts that can't be flipped out of a pan.
What to check: It is a 9-inch pan, so check that your recipe calls for a 9-inch springform before you buy.
Before you buy
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