Ceramic Pie Weights Smell

They had been washed dried and put in a freezer bag.

Ceramic pie weights smell.

For iron weights factories usually put a layer of oil on plates bars and dumbbells to protect against rust during storage and transport. My pie weights smell bad now. They are a good natural conductor of heat so they actually help with the baking part and not just the weighting down. Plantional pie weights for baking.

They usually come in one or two pound packages which means you can. Once you ve got them you don t need that nasty oil on it anymore. Ordinarily i use my pie weights on homemade pie dough and commercially bought pie shells and puff pastry. 10mm baking ceramic beans pie crust weights with wheat straw container for blind baking pastry 1 32 lb 600g 4 7 out of 5 stars 20 10 99.

The stinky weights problem. Then once you remove the weights to blind bake the crust. You can use soap detergent but the ceramic may pickup the scent and this will also cause an odor. The smell is hard to describe but is most likely rancid fat from previous usage.

When you first start using them not only place foil or parchment paper between the pie crust and weights but also on top of the weights to limit any odor. The more you bake with the stones and clean with only water the less odor will occur. Without the presence of filling the crust can slump down into the plate as it bakes necessitating pie weights to help keep its shape. I hadn t used mine in a few months.

These pale beads of clay are meant to be placed on top of a piece of parchment inserted into your pie.