Stainless pans?

don h said:

Help! We are trying to find stainless baking pans - square or rectangular.
Does anybody make them? Thanks.

I can't name a manufacturer, but I've baked plenty of times in the
stainless trays marketed for steam tables or bain maries. The exact
name escapes me, but they come in a standard size and shape to fit
restaurant equipment. They're stainless steel, square or rectangular
like you say, and can be found in any restaurant supply store.

--Lia

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don h said:

Help! We are trying to find stainless baking pans - square or
rectangular.
Does anybody make them? Thanks.

I can't name a manufacturer, but I've baked plenty of times in the
stainless trays marketed for steam tables or bain maries. The exact name
escapes me, but they come in a standard size and shape to fit restaurant
equipment. They're stainless steel, square or rectangular like you say,
and can be found in any restaurant supply store.

They are called "hotel pans"... full, half, third, sixth, etc., and
preceeded by depth.. as in "3-inch half-pan"
Perhaps looking for a 2 inch hotel pan (full)? Stainless-steel is more or
less assumed.

zuuum said:

They are called "hotel pans"... full, half, third, sixth, etc., and
preceeded by depth.. as in "3-inch half-pan"
Perhaps looking for a 2 inch hotel pan (full)? Stainless-steel is more or
less assumed.

Thank-you. I'd been trying to conjure up the right word and couldn't
land on it. I believe the original poster is looking for a 2-inch half
hotel pan. I baked in full size too but got better results in half in
my home oven.

--Lia

I've purchased some aluminum baking pans from this site. I've been
quite happy with the pans and my experience with them. Not sure if
it's exactly what you are after, but here is the link:
https://www.acemart.com/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=AM&Category_Code=G10-1-1

Good luck!

Julia Altshuler said:

zuuum said:

They are called "hotel pans"... full, half, third, sixth, etc., and

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preceeded by depth.. as in "3-inch half-pan"
Perhaps looking for a 2 inch hotel pan (full)? Stainless-steel is

more or

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less assumed.

Thank-you. I'd been trying to conjure up the right word and couldn't

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land on it. I believe the original poster is looking for a 2-inch

half

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hotel pan. I baked in full size too but got better results in half

in

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my home oven.

--Lia

Those are steam table pans, available at most any restaurant supply
emporium. But they are the wrong configuration for use as bakeware
(standard recipe quantities won't work), and stainless steel is
unsuitable as bakeware, far worse than even glass. The best bakeware
is blackened *carbon steel*, never scrubbed clean... the darker it
becomes (inside and out) the better it bakes... even aluminum sucks for
bakeware, mostly because it's too shiney. Anytime someone has shiny
squeaky clean bakeware you know with absolute certainty that they can't
bake.