You can get nice heavy-duty half-sheet pans from a restaurant supply store for under $5 each. They don’t have a non-stick coating, but I don’t want that, anyway. For biscuits I want them right on the shiny surface, and for cookies (yes, I do bake cookies on a half-sheet pan) I used a piece of parchment paper. That allows me to just slide them right off onto a cooling rack.
For cake pans I flour them manually, although I’ve been tempted by that cooking spray that comes with flour in it.
I bake 220 dozen cookies every holiday season and I use 5 half sheet pans with lip for this purpose, rotating them through. I use silpat liners and pull them off to cooling racks and quick cool the sheet pans in the sink with water. The rolled edge pans do not buckle when you rinse them or when you bake on them, and make great cookie sheets. The are also good for cake mix for large (1/2 sheet) layers.
I also use 1/2 sheet pans for vegetables, roasts, breads, focaccia, pane and rolls and jelly rolls. They are great.
The rest of this is kind of standard but $39.99 for the lot is not unreasonable.
Does anyone know what temperature the cookie/half sheet pans are oven safe to? I have Williams Sonoma ones that said they should only be used to 400 degrees, maybe 450, I think, but they buckle (then unbuckle) after use at the hotter temps.
This is a very good price and I am thinking about it (still reeling from over-spending on woot-offs, and I have promised I WON’T BUY ANYTHING UNLESS I DESPERATELY NEED IT). As if. All that being said, I recommend that you get heavy aluminum or stainless steel sheet pans (jelly-roll pans are also on sale for only 10 bucks in one of the Woot-Plus sections!) and non-stick baking mats. These are well worth the investment, and I have now replaced everything else with these relatively inexpensive sheets with the mats. The mats are washable, and NOTHING STICKS! I use them to make sweet potato and taro ‘fries’ which I sprinkle with olive oil and a garlic concoction I make and which is delicious and much healthier than regular fries, and to bake most everything.
Maybe I’m thinking cupcake recipes. My concern isn’t so much that of making one batch at a time but having the batter stand too long and end up with “rubbery” pastries (like when you forget to preheat the oven and end up waiting for it).
…also, you ideally want to pour your batter into a cool pan, so making one batch after the other just isn’t the most feasible.
Unless you’ve got a super huge fancy oven, a full sheet pan isn’t going to fit. Half sheet is the standard size for home ovens.
It’s like standard beer kegs, which are half barrels. They aren’t half kegs; “barrel” is a unit of measure, equivalent to 31 gallons, so a half barrel keg, a full, standard keg, is 15.5 gallons.
So a half sheet pan is a full-sized standard home pan. Full sheet pans are HUGE!!