"Kalmia" > wrote in message
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> On Thursday, December 18, 2014 6:21:41 AM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > On 12/17/2014 9:00 PM, Mark Thorson wrote:
>> >> Julie Bove wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>> >>>> You can pick up some pretty cheap tube pans at any big box store
>> >>>> that
>> >>>> sells cookware.
>> >>>
>> >>> I don't know about that. I bought a Bundt pan once and it wasn't
>> >>> cheap!
>> >>
>> > We can't help it if you pay too much money for things. Please feel
>> > free
>> > to lash back saying you can spend your money any way you wish. Just
>> > don't
>> > bitch about the price simply because you don't know how to find an
>> > inexpensive piece of cookware.
>>
>> Oh? So where can you get a cheap Bundt pan? I got mine at the military
>> commissary. That's the only place I could find one.
>> >
>> >> A bundt pan is not a tube pan. A tube pan
>> >> is made out of sheet metal, usually uncoated.
>> >> A bundt pan is a heavy cast pan, usually
>> >> with a non-stick coating (and the cake
>> >> usually sticks anyway).
>> >>
>> > I have a "non-stick" bundt pan like that, Mark. I really should add
>> > it
>> > to the stack of items I'm donating. It's only been used a couple of
>> > times
>> > and likely never again.
>>
>> I don't think I have mine any more. I used it once.
>
> How can you not know if you still have it? Is your kitchen is that much
> disarray? Figures...........

If I do have it, it is in the cupboard of rarely used things. My large
roasting pan is in there as well as my juicer and assorted cake pans. It is
not a standard cupboard and has pullouts which I do not like to pull out
because each time I do, things bail off the back and I have to resort to
sitting on the floor with a flashlight and reaching tool to get them out. I
know that I got rid of my popsicle molds and my pancake and tortilla warmers
as well as a ton of assorted plastic things. I don't go into that cupboard
unless I need something specific and I haven't needed that pan since we
moved here. I think I got rid of it but am not certain on that. I am also
not going to go digging in there to look for it just to satisfy you.

I did keep most of my cake pans because they are good ones and would be
expensive to replace. I do bake things once in a great while. The Bundt
pan was purchased to make a Bohemian Popcorn cake for a Coast Guard potluck.
After that, they asked that no sweets be sent in and only healthy foods sent
to potlucks. It is unlikely that my cake was the deciding factor there
though. They also asked people not to bring in leftover holiday sweets.

I also now know that to make that silly cake, the pan was likely
unnecessary. It is merely like a mixture of popcorn and melted marshmallow
stuff like you would cook up to make that kind of popcorn balls. You then
add whatever kind of candy you want as well as nuts if you desire. I'm sure
that I could have made a similar shape freeform even.

The person who gave me the recipe does not cook. She's blind. The recipe
came from her mom who is a caterer so knowing this, when I made it, I
followed the instructions. But the end result is very pretty and easily
portable.