Sheet pan

Baking tray or cake plate is a rectangular metal plate with raised rim, used in ovens. There Kannes be inserted on seemed like bulges along the side walls at different heights. It is used to bake flat cake ( sheet cake ) etc.

Originally made ​​of sheet iron, exist today baking sheets either aluminum or steel sheet which has been enamelled or coated with polytetrafluoroethylene.

The size of trays is not standardized, and therefore do not fit into any oven. Why are commercially available in the width adjustable baking sheets available in which in a double-walled half a simple can be telescoped. By design, they are not liquid tight.

Very similar to the baking sheet is the drip pan. She has a higher margin on all sides and is - used below a grate - for collecting fat and liquid for frying meat, if it is not cooked in a roasting pan. The thus collected liquid is normally used to produce a dark sauce. With this deeper baking tray, also called Pure, are caught leaving the juices and the fat when roasting a goose, turkey or duck. By means of a Pure water can also be introduced into the furnace, which ensures a more uniform evaporating baking and roasting temperature and higher humidity in the oven; so the fried food will not dry as quickly.