Kitchenware fail

[nineveh_uk]

I want: a mince pie tin

I do not want: a Yorkshire pudding fin, a fluted cupcake tin, a muffin tin, a mini-muffin tin, a madeleine tin, an éclair tin, a whoopee pie tin, or a shallow bun tin.

The high street has one last chance when I pass John Lewis tonight. Otherwise, I am turning to the internet.

I also need to decide what on earth I am buying my family for Christmas, several more days in the week, and the elves to come and tidy up my house in exchange for a bowl of milk.

Comments

[tree_and_leaf]

How would you define a mince pie tin? We always used a bun tin.

(Also, someone else who says 'bun'! I keep getting into arguments with people who think this is weird).

[nineveh_uk]

I think a mince pie tin is basically a bun tin, but with buns, because you use paper cases the exact shape isn’t so important. I think of a mince pie tin as a little shallower than a standard bun tin and ideally with a curved angle where the side meets the base to aid in getting them out. I might have bought a standard bun tin had there been one (that’s what John Lewis has got on the website that looks hopeful), but the shallow bun tin was far too shallow for a pie with a lid.

I am happy to stand in solidarity with you as a person who says 'bun'. I didn't know that there were people who thought this weird, but I may have led a sheltered life.

[tree_and_leaf]

Actually I think what you've described is the sort of tin my mother uses for buns (as well as mince pies). But it's about forty years old, so that's not much help.

[nineveh_uk]

My mother has a couple of trays, both for buns/mince pies, but one one which is definitely preferable.

[jest]

What is a whoopie pie tin?

[nineveh_uk]

A tin for making something called a whoopie pie. They are a recent import from the US, involving flattish sponge cake/biscuit thing sandwiched with a sort of filling. I admit that I don't really see the point of them, not least because I don't fancy a cake that makes me think of bodily functions.

[antisoppist]

It could be worse, you could have a husband who sees no difference between roasting tins and rectangular swiss roll tins, even if you attempt to keep them in entirely different cupboards, which results in chocolate log with an added hint of beef dripping and garlic.

Whoopee pie has not yet reached Somerset. I am relieved to say.

[nineveh_uk]

It is possible that I don't have a husband like that because I would be the wife like that...* Also because I have never made chocolate log, though this might change that.

*I do just about manage to segregate wooden utensils.

[antisoppist]

I actually made that once for the people who don't like Christmas pudding. I should do it again.

I make muffins, fairy cakes, Yorkshire puddings and mince pies in the same non-fluted, fairly deep, 12-hole tin that was my grandmother's, as did she. I think it's all an excuse to make you buy more stuff. And what use is a 4-hole Yorkshire pudding tin? We eat 24 between the five of us.

[nineveh_uk]

It's definitely a ruse to sell more stuff - who needs an eclair tin, eclairs are piped and keep their shape!

I am of course being picky because my platonic ideal of tin is the same one as my mother's, but she is still using hers. I have never made Yorkshire puddings, though. Come to that, now has she.

[antisoppist]

Eclair tins are for wimps. Not that I know. I am not the Choux Pastry Sister.

My mother has her own cake tins and her mother-in-law's. I nabbed Grandma's.