Non Stick BakewareNon-stick bakeware can be made of both aluminium and steel, but characteristically has a non-stick coating applied to allow food to be easily removed from corrugated steel sheetit. Such a bakeware is suitable for baking items like layered cakes, cupcakes or muffins where the food has to be served after removing it from the baking dish.
This bakeware can provide excellent results, but the non-stick coating will wear with use and hence lose its performance over time and they can be susceptible to hot spots. Anolon and Bakers Pride series of bakeware include loaf pans, cake tins, pizza pans, roasting pans, muffin cups and springform pans of the non-stick variety. If you are someone who does not do too much baking and do not want the expense of the hard anodised and silver anodised bakeware, this may well be the solution for you.
Types of BakewareThere are several types of bakeware available. The most basic is the baking dish, available both in square and rectangular varieties. It is a versatile bakeware in which you can cook a range of dishes like lasagne, roasts, poultry, fish, etc. Another simple bakeware is the cake pan that comes in rectangular, square and round shapes, meant for cakes and savoury dishes. Baking sheets or cookie sheets are flat metal sheets with one or two turned ends and are used to bake cookies, biscuits, meringues etc.
Bread pans or loaf pans, as the name suggests, are meant to bake breads or meat loaves. Bundt pans are heavy-walled with decorative indented curvature and a hollow tube in the centre for uniform rising and baking of cakes. Generally used to make coffee cakes or sweet cakes, the bakeware is turned upside down for the cake to fall out into a decorative shape with a golden crust. Doughnut pans are shaped to bake doughnuts, and muffin tins, cups and pans for baking muffins.