Pie Weights

Pie Weights. Pie weights are small ceramic or metal balls that you use when blind baking a pie crust. Pie weights are designed to solve for common baking problems.

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Being so versatile, they can help to bake left over goods. Pie weights are used to prevent the pie crust from bubbling or shrinking. As a pie weight, sugar completely eliminates the risk of slumping, shrinking, or puffing, and obviates the need for docking.

Enter the land of the pie weight.

Here's nice video that shows the effects of using pie weights (dried beans in this case) when blind baking.

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As a pie weight, sugar completely eliminates the risk of slumping, shrinking, or puffing, and obviates the need for docking. Any of a variety of cooking weights that can be used to keep a pie, tart, or pastry crust from bubbling up, curling and shrinking when blind baking the crust. Pie weights are sets of small weights that are designed to be placed into a pie crust for blind baking.

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