Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to What is this thing?@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-27 months agoSOLVED: This apparently is a baking dish. Thrift store find for my wife. But why is there a hole in the side? What is it?lemmy.dbzer0.comexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkSOLVED: This apparently is a baking dish. Thrift store find for my wife. But why is there a hole in the side? What is it?lemmy.dbzer0.comMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to What is this thing?@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-27 months agomessage-square43fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarenocturne@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoSo you can look in and see how the pie is cooking and if the center is done yet.
minus-squareSonicDeathTaco@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoExcept that the crust where the window is would bake completely differently from the parts of the crust that would be touching the stoneware.
minus-squarewalden@sub.wetshaving.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoThis is the only answer that sort of makes sense so far. For a pie with a crust, it lets you see what the crust looks like below the filling line. I’m not a baker. Just a guesser.
So you can look in and see how the pie is cooking and if the center is done yet.
Except that the crust where the window is would bake completely differently from the parts of the crust that would be touching the stoneware.
This is the only answer that sort of makes sense so far. For a pie with a crust, it lets you see what the crust looks like below the filling line.
I’m not a baker. Just a guesser.