How we tested the sheet pans.
Oven glass pan vs baking sheet.
When you are choosing a pan to bake or roast your food the pan you reach for shouldn t just be the first one you can grab regardless of the material because some materials great for certain situations and terrible for others.
Most of us gravitate towards metal baking sheets when we are baking a batch of cookies but glass dishes for lasagnas and casseroles.
There are some care tips you need to consider with glass bakeware.
Within the catch all sheet pan category we only tested rimmed half sheet trays whereas rimless.
If you have a recipe that calls for a metal baking pan and you have to substitute glass you usually need to decrease the oven temperature by 25 degrees.
You need a baking sheet that can do it all and the good ones can.
Glass pans also score points for being easy to clean and for not staining easily a common complaint about metal pans.
Food also tends to bake more evenly in glass pans browning rather than burning.
Glass pans tend to absorb heat quickly.
Never heat glass on the stovetop or under the broiler or it can shatter.
Also be mindful not to move ice cold glass into a.
Glass pans are extremely common and they have advantages of their own but be aware that they are insulators.
Quarter sheet pans are typically 9 by 13 inches a standard size for sheet cakes half sheet pans are 18 by 13 inches this is the size of most pans described simply as baking sheets and full.
Read more about pan colors and their effect on baking aluminum is the material that most professionals reach for.