Friday, November 16, 2007

Just a thought...

Whoever came up with "Cover edges of pie with aluminum foil to keep from browning?"

Do they actually think this task is achievable by mortal humans with burnable flesh? I mean, how exactly DO you go about getting strips of aluminum foil to wrap tightly enough to stay around the edges of a pie that's been in the oven for 45 minutes?

Any thoughts here, those of you who are actually competent in the kitchen...?

And: do they make a Kitchen Gadget for this? If not, they should.

Neb

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

put the foil on the pie before baking. take it off when there is appx 15min left of baking. thats what i do.

judy said...

well anonymous is ahead of yoiu and I. I too burned my hands trying to wrap foil around a hot pie plate. Tonight I did the wrap before baking but I'll tell ya, even cold those little suckers didn't want to stay on. Were you in my kitchen this week???

Judy

Anonymous said...

they DO have a gadget! but i never even cover it with Aluminum foil anyway or use the gadget and they turn out just fine... so you can leave that step off :)

bethany :)

Anonymous said...

I finally remembered what I used to do, for pumpkin pie anyway. Other pies never needed it, but the edges of my pumpkin pies would burn into carbon dust if I didn't cover them at the end. I used to put a piece of aluminum foil under the whole pie pan, and then wrap up the edges to cover the edge of the pie.

That was before I became a liberal hippie and decided natural resources, no matter how plentiful, should not be wasted. So, nobody do what I did. Do as I say, and do as I do*, but do not as I did, ever!

[*I now eat mommy's because they taste better anyway.]