Ceramic Pie Weights Smell

There s a couple reasons for this.

Ceramic pie weights smell.

For iron weights factories usually put a layer of oil on plates bars and dumbbells to protect against rust during storage and transport. These pale beads of clay are meant to be placed on top of a piece of parchment inserted into your pie. They are a good natural conductor of heat so they actually help with the baking part and not just the weighting down. Plantional pie weights for baking.

Then once you remove the weights to blind bake the crust. The stinky weights problem. My pie weights smell bad now. They usually come in one or two pound packages which means you can.

The smell is hard to describe but is most likely rancid fat from previous usage. Ordinarily i use my pie weights on homemade pie dough and commercially bought pie shells and puff pastry. They had been washed dried and put in a freezer bag. Without the presence of filling the crust can slump down into the plate as it bakes necessitating pie weights to help keep its shape.

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. I hadn t used mine in a few months. 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. You can use soap detergent but the ceramic may pickup the scent and this will also cause an odor.

Once you ve got them you don t need that nasty oil on it anymore.