Ceramic Pie Weights Smell

The most common one you see are ceramic pie weights.

Ceramic pie weights smell.

My pie weights smell bad now. For iron weights factories usually put a layer of oil on plates bars and dumbbells to protect against rust during storage and transport. I hadn t used mine in a few months. The smell is hard to describe but is most likely rancid fat from previous usage.

The stinky weights problem. They had been washed dried and put in a freezer bag. When you first start using them not only place foil or parchment paper between the pie crust and weights but also on top of the weights to limit any odor. Ordinarily i use my pie weights on homemade pie dough and commercially bought pie shells and puff pastry.

10mm baking ceramic beans pie crust weights with wheat straw container for blind baking pastry 1 32 lb 600g 4 7 out of 5 stars 20 10 99. You can use soap detergent but the ceramic may pickup the scent and this will also cause an odor. There s a couple reasons for this. Then once you remove the weights to blind bake the crust.

They are a good natural conductor of heat so they actually help with the baking part and not just the weighting down. Without the presence of filling the crust can slump down into the plate as it bakes necessitating pie weights to help keep its shape. They usually come in one or two pound packages which means you can. Once you ve got them you don t need that nasty oil on it anymore.

Any brand new dumbbells or plates might stink when you first get them.