It can be filled with water to give it more weight.
Can marbles be used as pie weights.
You may need two layers of dried beans but only one of steel balls.
Then once you remove the weights to blind bake the crust.
I would like to find food safe glass marbles for sous vide cooking.
Set parchment paper or foil on top of the dough then fill er up with dried beans.
Ceramic pie weights another item that can be used like marbles and placed inside a cloth or even a mesh bag.
A cabbage leaf placing a cabbage leaf on top of your ferment and tucking the sides down works well.
Some recipes call for a crisp golden crust.
These will ensure that the pie gets heated evenly.
Why just use them as home décor when they could work equally well in the kitchen.
How to use pie weights.
Commercial pie weights can be quite heavy so adjust the quantity of weights you use accordingly.
You can find both for around 10 to 15.
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.
As far as what kinds of pie weights to use you have options.
When blind baking the pie crust is usually lined with parchment paper or a substitute and the pie weights go on top of the parchment then the whole thing is baked.
Remove your weights and foil or paper half way through blind baking to allow the crust to bake fully and develop some color.
So line your pastry with some butter paper tie the marbles river rocks in a muslin cloth and use them as pie weights.
Make sure to spread the weights around so they re evenly distributed from the edge to the center and not all just piled in the center.
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.
They can be used for keeping bags from floating to space out ingredients in a bag or even as filler space in a chamber vacuum to get a higher level of vacuum sealing.
Without the presence of filling the crust can slump down into the plate as it bakes necessitating pie weights to help keep its shape.
But you can also use dried beans.
Glass marbles or polished river rocks.
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.
Now you won t want to eat the beans after baking them.
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.
