To use the pie weights lay your uncooked pie crustâ in your pie plate.
Can i use marbles as pie weights.
Now you won t want to eat the beans after baking them.
There are ceramic balls and also metal chains which coil around the inside of the pie crust and are easier to lift out since they re connected.
You can use glass marbles as pie weights just let them cool before removing from the pan to avoid temperature shock which could cause them to break.
Set parchment paper or foil on top of the dough then fill er up with dried beans.
Place a sheet of aluminum foil on top of the crust and gently press it down until it covers the bottom and sides of the crust.
But you can also use dried beans.
Commercial pie weights can be quite heavy so adjust the quantity of weights you use accordingly.
Some recipes call for a crisp golden crust.
Although if the sides are collapsing it sounds like the dough is too warm when it goes in the oven or the oven isn t hot enough to set the crust.
You may need two layers of dried beans but only one of steel balls.
Fill foil with pie weights and bake as your recipe directs.
So line your pastry with some butter paper tie the marbles river rocks in a muslin cloth and use them as pie weights.
My kitchen and budget are too tight to accommodate a bag of ceramic pie weights or marbles and i d rather save rice and beans for dinner.
Forget weights use sugar.
These will ensure that the pie gets heated evenly.
Make sure that you wash the marbles and river rocks before using them.
Pie weights are used to keep a pie crust from bubbling and shrinking away from the edge of the pie plate or tart pan when you re blind baking a fancy term for prebaking a crust.
Uncooked rice or popcorn kernels will also work the same way.
Remove your weights and foil or paper half way through blind baking to allow the crust to bake fully and develop some color.
Again make sure to spread the beans around.
The good news is you can use them over and over as pie weights.
Then once you remove the weights to blind bake the crust.
As far as what kinds of pie weights to use you have options.
Without the presence of filling the crust can slump down into the plate as it bakes necessitating pie weights to help keep its shape.
Although we have suggested that you use aluminum foil along with one of the substitutes it is best if you could use parchment paper or butter paper instead as foil may cause the crust to be soggy.
It s not that weights aren t essential only that my go to choice is far less traditional.
If you don t own pie weights there are plenty of things in your pantry that you can use instead.
If you re blind baking and don t have pie weights try using.