Baking Tests: What is the best pan to bake focus?

Focaccia, the classic Flatbread of Italy, can be thick or thin, crustal or soft, chewed or soft. Can be simply on top with oil and salt or studied with olives and scattered with herbs. But the only thing all the focus recipes share is this: they are baked in a pan. Facaccia needs an anointed pan to reach its lower signature crust – but not all pans yield the same results. So what is the best pan to bake focus?

our Great and bubble focus It relies on a dark anodized aluminum pan for its golden, fresh crust.

Best Pan of Focus: It comes down to conductivity

The material that is made of a pan is critical. You want to choose a pan whose color and composition – glass or glazed, glossy or dark metal – gives the crust you want.

The more conductive is the panAs soon as your focus is thoroughly, you will blush on the outside and bake from the inside. Aluminum or a combination of aluminum steel are very conductors; Steellic stainless stem is not. Cast iron is also beautiful conductor, but it requires much more than aluminum to warm up. Glass, stone and ceramics are less conductive and thus slower to heat (and also less capable of keeping it heat).

Another factor in conductivity is the actual color of the pan. A pan with a dark interior will become hotter faster than a shiny or lighter colors. Thus, a dark aluminum frying pan You will bake your focus faster than a pan with light colored ceramics or light colors.

Four different 9" Square pans: black aluminum, dark gray-aluminum steel, available tapo and clear glass. — Four pan, four materials, four colors: which will mature the best focus?

And an aluminum frying pan that is not only dark but almost black gives really great results – that is why we especially call to that The fabulous pan of the family to make our recipe of the year, Great and bubble focus. With its anodic ultra -soft completion and sensational depth 2 “, this pan makes the perfect focus.

Why is conductivity so important? Can't you just mature your focus on your favorite glass pan?

Yes, you can, but here is the friction: the longer the oven focus, the more its interior dries. At a time when the baked focus in a glass or ceramic pan is beautiful brown, its interior will have lost a lot of moisture. A pan whose conductivity is ineffective will give either a beautifully damp focus with a pale crust, or a beautiful brown crust and dry Sahara crumbs. And the lower crust of your focus will never reach the fragility in the glass or ceramics that can be metal.

Two focus, one in a black pan, one in a clear glass pan, turned upside down to show their lower crust. — Change affairs make the color and composition of the pan! We have flipped the focus upside down in their respective pan, revealing the harsh difference between baking in dark metal, against clear glass.

Testing of the best pan to mature focacin

Due to their excellent conductivity, we have proven that dark metal pans are best for focus. But how much change makes your pan actually Do it in your last focus? We decided to put four pan on the test, baking our tons Great and bubble focus Recipe on each of the 9 square pans below and comparing the results:

The focaches were baked side by side in the same oven for the same amount of time. They were then taken from their pan, were examined for color and returned to the oven shelf for a few more minutes, for the recipe.

Four sealing squares, baked in four different pans, turned upside down on a cooling rack to indicate the difference in the color of their lower crusts. — In the direction of the clock from the left: the lower seal crust roasted in a black aluminum, a gray steel aluminum, available tinfail and clear glass pan.

And the PAN focus winner is…

First place: Black Aluminum Pan. The focus was beautifully fried with a wonderful fresh crust. Its interior was wet and chewed, neither too wet nor dry. Really makes a difference!

Second place: pan/pan with aluminum. With its moderate crust and interior structure equal to that of the black aluminum pan, this is a good choice for those who can live without extra-fresh finish.

Third place: pure glass panel. The baked focus in a clean soft glass pan had a light gold crust, with none of the desired Christianity of Facaccia at the end. It was more than roasted crusts in metal pan, though not unpleasant. If you prefer a soft focus, almost like cake, glass would be a good choice for you.

Last place: glossy aluminum pan available. Despite the detail of this pan, which can talk about good conductivity, its glossy surface seemed to divert heat than it absorbed it. The result: a very underestimated focus, a barely fried at the bottom with an “inner”, almost inner rubber.

The best frying pan to mature focus

If you love focacin with a golden, fresh, crust whose crumb is neither too wet nor too dry, shelter your glass, Ceramic tinfoil, or shiny in favor of a black or dark aluminum frying pan.

Recipe pizza baked cheese on a 9" x 9" PAN focus, cut into squares. — Don't have a cast iron pan? our Fresh cheese pizza It is a perfect fit for our favorite focus pan.

What else can you bake in a black aluminum pan 9 ”? Our popular recipe of 2020 of the year, Fresh cheese pizzaCalls for a round cast iron pan; But it is also a perfect fit for The fabulous pan of the family.

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