Article: Baking Pan Substitutions

In a perfect world, we would all have the particular size pan or pie plate or baking dish that all recipes require.

It's not a perfect world. The following advice for pan swapping is from "In the Sweet Kitchen," by Regan Daley (Artisan, 2001): An acceptable alternative to any pan has an identical volume and falls within half an inch of the original depth. The baking time may have to be decreased for shallower pans or extended for deeper ones. To find the volume of a given pan, fill it with water, then pour the water into a measuring cup.

Pan dimensions are in inches.

8 x 11/2 pie plate 4 cups

8 x 11/2 round cake pan 4 cups

8 x 4 x 21/2 loaf pan 4 cups

9 x 11/4 pie plate 4 cups

91/2 x ...

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