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How can I transfer a whole pie from a glass pie plate to a throw-away aluminum pie plate?

I just cannot bring myself to bake my pie in those cheap aluminum pie plates... But I'm baking pie to sell. Has anyone ever transferred a whole pie out of a pie plate?

Public Comments

1. no way that is way to dangerous!
2. Good luck doing that! You should have just baked it in the disposable tin. Trying to transfer the pie will probably be impossible without it crumbling.
3. I would just go ahead and just make and bake the pie in the aluminum pan, but if you really dont want to, maybe you could use a spring form pan. You could try spraying alot of butter PAM on the glass baking dish and it might slide out onto your aluminum one.
4. Place a plate on top of your pie. Invert the pie and it should now pop out, place the aluminium pie tin on the exposed bottom and flip back right side up. you will need to have a firm filling and a well greased pie plate for this. Good luck!
5. The only way you might be able to do that successfully is to place a large dinner plate upside down on top of the pie and then turn the whole thing over so you now have your pie sitting upside down on the dinner plate. Remove the glass pie plate and replace it with the aluminum one and then turn the whole thing over again. This will only work if you have a sealed pastry crust on top of the pie - otherwise you'll just end up with a big mess. Much easier to just bake it in the aluminum pan from the start.
6. Short of freezing the pie first, I just don't think it can be done without a lot of mess and a broken pie. If you are planning on doing a lot of pie-selling, you might as well get used to those cheap aluminum pie plates.
7. Cut it and move it piece by piece
8. The shape of a glass plate is different from a foil plate, especially in the sharp corners of the foil vs the rounded of the glass, but also in different slopes of the sides and thus different diameters of the top and bottom. So even if you made the pie plate/dinner plate transfer method work, you would have to search high and low to get foil plates that matched. Of course, you could make the crust tough like the baked "pies" in the paper sleeves, but I don't know how many people want to buy those. If you think there is some advantage to glass in baking, you might try putting the foil inside the glass, if you can find one that is a reasonable fit, so you can lift it out. The real problem is that if you want to lift the pie out, you are going to have to bake with absolutely no leaks of filling so the pie does not stick to the pan. Everybody else is happy with foil pans, perhaps you need to bake something else to sell if you can't live with that.