do you use Glass baking pans?

[cleveramerican]

I favor glass pans for brownies,coffee cake etc.
I always have, I think because when I got my first apartment my sister-in-law gave me a set.

my wife cannot stand the glass pans,although she will eat and enjoy the baked goods
she will not use them, says she would burn everything.
she has to have metal pans for baking

am I a nut?

[Denninmi]

1. I think your wife has it backwards.

Metal pans burn things faster than glass pans. At least that as been my experience with my Corelle baking pans. Perhaps transparent glass pans would burn more than my white, opaque ones, but I've always found them slower to brown, and therefore slower to burn than metal pans at the same temperature.

[hippywife]

2. I use mostly

clear glass for baking, sometimes metal. No problems here, either way. It really could be just what someone is used to.

:hi:

[trotsky]

3. It drives me crazy to scrape metal against metal.

So if I use a metal pan to bake something, I gotta search for a plastic knife to cut it. I prefer glass pans for that reason. Plus I find them easier to clean.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. I've always used and loved my glass pans. When using glass pans,

you should set your oven temperature 25 degrees lower than the recipe calls for to prevent burning on the bottom before the top gets brown..

[ginnyinWI]

5. I use glass all the time.

I don't set the oven any differently either. I have a large one for lasagna and a square one for coffecake or brownies, and at least three glass pie pans. What's not to like? Once in a great while one will get broken, but they are cheap to replace.

[Warpy]

6. I like a glass loaf pan for veggie loaves

that I occasionally make as entrees. They don't seem to weld to the glass like they do to all metal pans I have.

Other than that, nope. I prefer the cheapo Baker's Secret pans for everything, they're easier on my wrists.

[EFerrari]

7. My whole kitchen is packed up while I'm here helping Mom

and she has is glass pans. Never have liked them but am using them every day. The cooking time seems a wee bit shorter.

[TreasonousBastard]

8. You're only a nut if you take it all too seriously...

and add silicon pans to the argument.

I have both glass and metal, usually bought because they were on sale or a particular shape I wanted, and aside from the weight I don't see much difference between them.

Shiny metal, non-stick metal, dark metal, clear glass, blue glass, brown glass, white glass, ceramics of all colors...

Yeah, maybe baking time and temperature should have to be adjusted slightly, but with oven temperatures all over the place, convection ovens doing their strange thing, and all the other variables it just doesn't seem to make any real difference.


As usual, it's not what's best, it's what you're used to-- that's what's best for you.

[udbcrzy2]

9. Glass lets you see what's going on

I love my glass baking dishes. I do set the temp a little lower. It seems like the brownies and gooey butter cake
comes out much better using glass. Better because I tend to burn them when I use metal pans. But what I like the
best is the clean up. They clean up so much easier than metal:)