Sunday, May 20, 2012

Big Pan, Little Pan

Baking pans.  I love baking pans.
Muffin pans.  I love muffin pans.
Pie plates.  I love pie plates.
Cookie sheets.  I love cookie sheets.
Jelly roll pans.  I love jelly roll pans.
Loaf pans.  I love loaf pans.
Bread pans.  Yes, I love bread pans.

It's simple, really.
I love baking.  I love muffins.  I love pies. 
I love cookies.  I love jelly rolls.  I love loaves.  
And yes, I love bread, too, especially freshly baked ones.

Woks and cookware?  
Nah, I don't love wo(r)king and I don't really love cooking.
Sadly, I have to wo(r)k and someone has to cook.

So let's go back to baking instead.

Whenever I go to the mall, I gravitate towards the stores that sell bakeware, cookware and other kitchen gadgets.  There is always something of interest there.

Victoria's Basement to me is like National Bookstore to Z or Dick Smith, MSY and Ace Hardward to MacGyver.

I do have a decent selection of pans.  What can I say?  Baking pans inspire me.  

One can make cookies, muffins, rolls, pies, cakes, lamingtons, bread and a whole variety of other baked goodies if one has a wide range of pans available.

However, since grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, I still like to check out what interesting pans might be out there.

My pan collection grows over time.  Slowly but surely.   The most precious pans of my collection are the ones I (asked to be) inherited from my maternal grandmother.  Those are irreplaceable.  MacGyver's sister got me a bread pan from one of her trips.  Over several trips to Manila, sisters from abroad brought me home springform pans, a beautiful bundt pan and special cookie sheets.  When Z came over to visit, I asked her to bring me one of the tube pans from Cebu Avenue.   Most of the pans I do pick up myself.
  
The latest addition to my collection is a mini-heart pan. 
In my books, sales are among the top advantages of Mothers' Day.

I have yet to bake anything in this adorable pan.  But not to worry, I am the type of person that listens to Christmas music in April, so I certainly won't be waiting for Valentine's Day to make something in this pan.

My main problem is that I still have to figure out how much batter I'd need to make heart-shaped goodies. 


Let's see ... volume = length x width x height for rectangular pans


     = base x base x height for square pans  
     = πr2 for round pans




CIRCULAR PANS
 1 (8-inch) round cake pan  4 cups 1 (8 x 4)-inch loaf pan
1 (9-inch) round cake pan
1 (9-inch) pie plate
 2 (8-inch) round cake pans  8 cups 2 (8 x 4-inch) loaf pans
1 (9-inch) tube pan
2 (9-inch) round cake pans
1 (10-inch) Bundt pan
1 (11 x 7-inch) baking dish
1 (10-inch) springform pan
 1 (9-inch) round cake pan  6 cups 1 (8-inch) round cake pan
1 (8 x 4-inch) loaf pan
1 (11 x 7-inch) baking dish
 2 (9-inch) round cake pans 12 cups 2 (8 x 4-inch) loaf pans
1 (9-inch) tube pan
2 (8-inch) round cake pans
1 (10-inch) Bundt pan
2 (11 x 7-inch) baking dishes
1 (10-inch) springform pan
 1 (10-inch) round cake pan 11 cups 2 (8-inch) round cake pans
1 (9-inch) tube pan
1 (10-inch) springform pan
 2 (10-inch) round cake pans 22 cups 5 (8-inch) round cake pans
3 or 4 (9-inch) round cake pans
2 (10-inch) springform pans
 9-inch springform pan  10 cups 1 (10-inch) round cake pan
1 (10-inch) springform pan
2 (8-inch) round cake pans
2 (9-inch) round cake pans
MORE CIRCULAR PANS
 10-inch springform pan  12 cups 2 (8 x 4-inch) loaf pans
1 (9-inch) tube pan
2 (9-inch) round cake pans
1 (10-inch) Bundt pan
2 (11 x 7-inch) baking dishes
2 (8-inch) round cake pans
 9-inch tube pan 12 cups 2 (9-inch) round cake pans
2 (8-inch) round cake pans
1 (10-inch) Bundt pan
 10-inch tube pan  16 cups 3 (9-inch) round cake pans
2 (10-inch) pie plates
2 (9-inch) deep dish pie plates
4 (8-inch) pie plates
2 (9x5-inch) loaf pans
2 (8-inch) square baking dishes
2 (9-inch) square baking dishes
 10-inch Bundt pan  12 cups 1 (9x13-inch) baking dish
2 (9-inch) round cake pans
2 (8-inch) round cake pans
1 (9-inch) tube pan
2 (11x7-inch) baking dishes
1 (10-inch) springform pan
SQUARE AND RECTANGULAR PANS
 8 x 4-inch loaf pan  6 cups 1 (8-inch) round cake pan
1 (11 x 7-inch) baking dish
 9 x 5-inch loaf pan   8 cups 1 (9 x 2-inch) deep dish pie plate
1 (10-inch) pie plate
1 (8-inch) square baking dish
1 (9-inch) square baking dish
 8-inch square baking dish  8 cups 1 (9 x 2-inch) deep pie plate
1 (9 x 5-inch) loaf pan
2 (8-inch) pie plates
 9-inch square baking dish  8 cups 1 (11 x 7-inch) baking dish
1 (9 x 2-inch) deep dish pie plate
1 (9 x 5-inch) loaf pan
2 (8-inch) pie plates
 11 x 7 x 2-inch baking dish  6 cups 1 (8-inch) square baking dish
1 (9-inch) square baking dish
1 (9-inch) round cake pan
 9 x 13 x 2-inch baking dish  15 cups 1 (10-inch) Bundt cake pan
2 (9-inch) round cake pans
3 (8-inch) round cake pans
1 (10 x 15-inch) jellyroll pan
 10 x 15 x 1-inch jellyroll pan  15 cups 1 (10-inch) Bundt pan
2 (9-inch) round cake pans
2 (8-inch) round cake pans
1 (9 x 13-inch) baking dish







After all these, I still don't know how much batter for my mini-hearts pan (not to mention how to get a proper table into this blogpost).

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Overthinking it much? It looks like 6 of your cupcake things, more or less. I vote use that as a base estimate and just (a) subtract a little bit, or (b) make it the same, and pour the left over into a little muffin thing.

-- Z