Pete C. wrote:

> ~patches~ wrote:
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>>Pete C. wrote:
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>>>Sheldon wrote:
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>>>>Jeneen Sommers wrote:
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>>>>>Has anyone used All Clad cookie sheets? I'm thinking of getting some,
>>>>>but would like to see what other people's experiences have been. There
>>>>>are two options: stainless steel or gold plated stainless. They both
>>>>>cost the same. I currently have aluminum cookie sheets, which I'm happy
>>>>>with except it doesn't take too long before they become kind of ratty
>>>>>because they aren't non-reactive. Stainless seems like it might be
>>>>>a reasonable alternative. It's more expensive, but I wouldn't have
>>>>>to keep replacing them as they got yucky.
>>>>
>>>>Stainless steel sucks for bakeware, only thing worse is glass. Why not
>>>>take a hint from what professional bake shops use, plain old carbon
>>>>steel, and never scrub them back to shiny, the blacker they get the
>>>>better.
>>>>
>>>>Sheldon
>>>
>>>
>>>I've been at a few pro bake shops and all I've ever seen is AL, lots and
>>>lots of AL baking sheets stacked in lots of the nice rolling racks.
>>>These were all for cookies BTW, I spent a few evenings backing about
>>>5,000 cookies once. While blackened steel pans may be good for a lot of
>>>things they generally seem to suck for baking, particularly cookies as
>>>they tend to burn the bottom of the cookie before the rest is baked.
>>>
>>>Pete C.
>>
>>I had to buy no sided cookies sheets to use in the convection oven and
>>chose AL air bake cookie sheets. I'm happy with their performance so far.
>
>
> The AL baking sheets I was using had sides, and we lined them with
> parchment paper sheets. They were baked in a big Hobart double stack
> convection oven. We also had a perforated version of the pans for
> cooling once the cookies were cool enough to remove from the parchment.
>
> Pete C.

The instructions for my oven said to use non-sided baking sheets when
using convection. Maybe they are in cohoots with the cookie sheet
manufactures At any rate, I needed new cookie sheets anyway and knew
the new stove would be convection so I waited until the new stove was
installed and bought the recommended bakeware. I don't make a whole lot
of cookies. The cookie sheets get used for a lot of other
baking/roasting though.