How To Store Cake Pans For Maximum Life
Many people make the mistake of improperly storing their cake pans. Most will just toss them in a box or drawer along with all of the others to be called upon at a later date. This might seem like it would work just fine, and it might for the short term, but in order to get the most life out of your shaped cake pans, you must store them properly.
When a cake pan gets a scratch, or even worse a dent, in it the baking and appearance of the cake is affected. Not to mention that scratches in metal are very sharp and collectors of germs and bacteria. This problem gets compounded when you’re dealing with non stick cake pans. When non stick gets scratched it is no longer non stick! Also, the shavings of teflon that come off the scratched material are toxic, and have been linked to causing cancer. Who would have thought that a simple cake pan could cause so many problems?!
In order to store these pans properly dedicate a home just for them. I sort my character cake pans separate from my round and square cake pans. I don’t do that for OCD reasons, but they stack together much better that way! It is best to grab a sheet of newspaper or parchment paper to put between each pan so that they do not scratch each other. It isn’t the other things in your cabinet that are scratching your pans, it’s the other pans that are floating around on top of them. If you have to pack them away in a box use the same paper lining technique, but find a box that is as snug of a fit as you can to keep them from rattling around. Many people will just toss their Christmas cake pans into a box with the rest of the Christmas decorations and can never figure out why everything breaks!
It might seem like a pain in the butt to go through all of this work to store a simple thing like a cake pan, but they are built to last a lifetime as long as they’re treated properly. Baking never goes out of style, so these pans could see their way to your grandkids, or even great grandkids!