Ceramic Pie Weights Smell

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

Ceramic pie weights smell.

Plantional pie weights for baking. These pale beads of clay are meant to be placed on top of a piece of parchment inserted into your pie. Ordinarily i use my pie weights on homemade pie dough and commercially bought pie shells and puff pastry. Once you ve got them you don t need that nasty oil on it anymore.

The smell is hard to describe but is most likely rancid fat from previous usage. The more you bake with the stones and clean with only water the less odor will occur. 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. I hadn t used mine in a few months.

Then once you remove the weights to blind bake the crust. For iron weights factories usually put a layer of oil on plates bars and dumbbells to protect against rust during storage and transport. They are a good natural conductor of heat so they actually help with the baking part and not just the weighting down. The stinky weights problem.

They usually come in one or two pound packages which means you can. My pie weights smell bad now. There s a couple reasons for this. The most common one you see are ceramic pie weights.

They had been washed dried and put in a freezer bag.