Ceramic Pie Weights Smell

I hadn t used mine in a few months.

Ceramic pie weights smell. The smell is hard to describe but is most likely rancid fat from previous usage. My pie weights smell bad now. These pale beads of clay are meant to be placed on top of a piece of parchment inserted into your pie. The stinky weights problem.

When you first start using them not only place foil or parchment paper between the pie crust and weights but also on top of the weights to limit any odor. They are a good natural conductor of heat so they actually help with the baking part and not just the weighting down. Any brand new dumbbells or plates might stink when you first get them. Once you ve got them you don t need that nasty oil on it anymore.

For iron weights factories usually put a layer of oil on plates bars and dumbbells to protect against rust during storage and transport. Ordinarily i use my pie weights on homemade pie dough and commercially bought pie shells and puff pastry. Without the presence of filling the crust can slump down into the plate as it bakes necessitating pie weights to help keep its shape. Then once you remove the weights to blind bake the crust.

You can use soap detergent but the ceramic may pickup the scent and this will also cause an odor. There s a couple reasons for this. The more you bake with the stones and clean with only water the less odor will occur. 10mm baking ceramic beans pie crust weights with wheat straw container for blind baking pastry 1 32 lb 600g 4 7 out of 5 stars 20 10 99.

Plantional pie weights for baking.