The Perfect Pan for Your Kitchen
Every couple of years, I go through my kitchen cabinets and do a massive purge of my cookie pans. Between getting beat up, bent, dinged, darkened or even rusted, I like to replace them and start anew. All the better for a perfectly baked cookie, in my opinion.
If you’re on the prowl for a new cookie pan yourself, you might be interested in this list from the folks at Better Homes & Gardens. Baking up thousands of cookies every year in their Test Kitchen, they know what they like … and more importantly, what we need. Here’s their short list of the best cookie pans to buy and why:
1. Analon Commercial Bakeware Cookie Pan, 14×16, aluminized steel, $15, macys.com. For the traditional baker, a slightly raised rim keeps cookies from sliding off.
2. Farberware Cookie Pan, 10 x 15, nonstick, $9.99 for two. With 3/4-inch tall sides, this nonstick pan has multiple uses - baking bars and sheet cakes, or toasting nuts.
3. Pyrex Professional Large Flat Cookie Sheet, 16-1/2 x 13-1/2, nonstick, $12.99. Embossed circles guide placement of dough for perfect cookies.
4. Baker’s Secret Large Cookie Pan, 17-1/2 x 11-3/8, nonstick, $13.99. Great baking results at a terrific price.
Photo from Amazon.
I have one of those baking pans with air in the middle, which I think is great for baking cookies–the bottoms don’t brown out before the rest of the cookie is done, given them a more homogeneous texture.
However, I still covet a real baking sheet, sturdy, with raised sides. Like the ones they use in restaurants. And the first choice on this list. Too bad I just don’t have the storage space–I almost bought one a few weeks ago, but for that.