Baking Guides

Most people don't buy bakeware once. They buy it three or four times. A cheap tin sticks or warps or loses its coating, so it gets replaced with a slightly less cheap one, which fails a little slower …

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The batter goes in and nothing happens. No hiss, no spit, just a quiet slick settling into the tin. You already know how these are coming out: flat, pale, and welded to the bottom by the time you get …

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You follow the recipe to the letter, measure the flour, don't overmix, set the timer. And still they come out flat: pale discs that spread to the edge of the cup instead of rising into the tall, crack …

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Ask five kitchens for the Yorkshire pudding ratio and you'll get five different answers, all delivered with total confidence. Equal parts egg, flour and milk. Weigh the eggs, match the flour, add h …

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If your mince pies have ever come out with a pale, soggy base while the filling has welded itself to the tin like cement, the tin is a more likely culprit than the recipe. Mincemeat is sugar and fa …

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A 1lb loaf tin measures about 19cm (7.5 inches) long including the rim, with a top opening of roughly 16 x 10cm and a depth of around 6.5cm. It holds about 0.8 litres, which is a loaf made from rough …

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