Rant: switched from a glass pie dish to a cheap $8 aluminum pan and my crust finally stopped sagging

Claire Fisher · 2026-10-09T12:10:03.09659+00:00

For 6 years I fought with my grandma's old Pyrex pie dish, soggy bottoms on every apple pie, and I blamed my oven in our old place in Dayton. My buddy Dave, who runs a little bakery counter up in Findlay, watched me pull one out and just handed me a flimsy aluminum pan he got for 8 bucks at a restaurant supply store. Turns out the glass was never getting hot fast enough on the bottom, and the thin metal fixed it on the very first try. Anybody else switch to cheap metal and feel kind of dumb about all the wasted pies?

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