They had been washed dried and put in a freezer bag.
Ceramic pie weights smell.
These pale beads of clay are meant to be placed on top of a piece of parchment inserted into your pie.
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Once you ve got them you don t need that nasty oil on it anymore.
There s a couple reasons for this.
Plantional pie weights for baking.
Any brand new dumbbells or plates might stink when you first get them.
They are a good natural conductor of heat so they actually help with the baking part and not just the weighting down.
For iron weights factories usually put a layer of oil on plates bars and dumbbells to protect against rust during storage and transport.
The stinky weights problem.
I hadn t used mine in a few months.
Without the presence of filling the crust can slump down into the plate as it bakes necessitating pie weights to help keep its shape.
They usually come in one or two pound packages which means you can.
Ordinarily i use my pie weights on homemade pie dough and commercially bought pie shells and puff pastry.
The most common one you see are ceramic pie weights.
My pie weights smell bad now.
You can use soap detergent but the ceramic may pickup the scent and this will also cause an odor.
The smell is hard to describe but is most likely rancid fat from previous usage.