Ceramic Pie Weights Smell

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.

Ceramic pie weights smell.

The smell is hard to describe but is most likely rancid fat from previous usage. The most common one you see are ceramic pie weights. The stinky weights problem. Plantional pie weights for baking.

Then once you remove the weights to blind bake the crust. They had been washed dried and put in a freezer bag. These pale beads of clay are meant to be placed on top of a piece of parchment inserted into your pie. Ordinarily i use my pie weights on homemade pie dough and commercially bought pie shells and puff pastry.

They usually come in one or two pound packages which means you can. You can use soap detergent but the ceramic may pickup the scent and this will also cause an 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.

My pie weights smell bad now. The more you bake with the stones and clean with only water the less odor will occur. Once you ve got them you don t need that nasty oil on it anymore. I hadn t used mine in a few months.

For iron weights factories usually put a layer of oil on plates bars and dumbbells to protect against rust during storage and transport.