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The humble crater where butter, fruit, and ambition go to caramelize into legend.
means A round, shallow baking dish, usually with sloping sides, made to hold a pie while it bakes.
from A plain compound of "pie" and "dish." "Pie" is medieval English and surprisingly mysterious — one popular guess links it to the magpie ("pie"), a bird famous for collecting a miscellany of bits, just as early pies crammed together a hodgepodge of fillings, though this remains unproven. "Dish" runs back through Old English "disc" to Latin "discus," a flat disc or platter — the same word that gives us "disc" and, by a roundabout route, "desk." So the name simply means "the flat thing the pie sits in."
- Material wars
- Glass browns crust evenly; metal browns it faster.
- Standard size
- Nine inches rules the American baking world.
- Blind baking
- Dried beans double as pie weights cheaply.
- Fluted edge
- Crimped rims aren't decoration, they seal in filling.
- Ancient roots
- Romans baked pies in clay vessels first.
le creuset stoneware — french cookware brand since 1925, their pie dishes are iconic in home baking
emile henry bakeware — french ceramic pie dishes, temperature-resistant up to 500°f, used professionally
pyrex glass pie plate — classic american glass bakeware, produced since 1915 and still standard in us kitchens