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Mike H

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> was thinking of the
> heavyweight aluminum cake pans when I made my original post. You can
> take two identical cake batters and pour one into a dark colored pan
> and the other one into a shiny reflective pan and assuming the pans are
> made of the same material and are of the same mass the one in the
> reflective pan will come out with a light crust and the one in the dark
> colored pan will come out with a dark crust.

That has more to do with reflecting the radient energy than the heat it
self. Same reason a dark car will heat up faster than a light colored one,
it's not that the heat is reflected, but rather the raident energy, the
light.