Reddit reviews Commercial Grade Aluminum Half Sheet Pan

I use a half sheet pan and a half sheet pan cooling rack. There are some others on Amazon, but those are the two I use. You can probably get away with any stainless steel or aluminum rack and sheet pan.

I buy most of my stuff from restaurant supply stores. I got 3 Half Sheet pans for about $8 each. You can get them from Amazon for about $20 : https://www.amazon.com/Focus-Foodservice-Commercial-Bakeware-Aluminum/dp/B00188AJN6

But I highly recommend checking out your local restaurant supply store. Everything is commercial grade and about 1/3 the price of what you will find in a kitchen store or a slim fraction of the cost of Williams Sonoma.

Go to a kitchen supply store. Best investment you can make for baking. Get some thick as hell ones. Something like https://www.amazon.com/Focus-Foodservice-Commercial-Bakeware-Aluminum/dp/B00188AJN6

The beauty of these is they don't warp and go BOING in the oven or out. Cheap/think stuff can explosively warp with heat/cool cycling. This means your perfectly spaced 12 cookie balls can net you 8 cookies and a big blondie when the warping shifts everything.

these are what you want....every professional kitchen uses them, and i can't imagine using anything else

http://www.amazon.com/Focus-Foodservice-Commercial-Bakeware-Aluminum/dp/B00188AJN6/ref=sr_1_2?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1348445361&sr=1-2&keywords=sheet+tray

https://www.amazon.com/Focus-Foodservice-Commercial-Bakeware-Aluminum/dp/B00188AJN6

Commercial half sheet pans are great for this. Most cooling racks you find are sized to fit perfectly in these for drip trays, too.

This is a basic list with mid-grade item recommendations as links. You can definitely shop around and find better deals, but this will give you a place to start your shopping excursion from. Considering hitting up a local restaurant supply store for really good deals.

• Basic Tools:
  
• Cutting board (get at least 2, more are better, get the larger sized ones if you have the counter space)
  
• Chef's Knife
  
• Paring Knife
  
• Mixing Bowls (alternatively)
  
• Wooden Spoon
  
• Silicone Spatula
  
• Whisk
  
• Hand Towels (can be used as pot holders if you're careful and layer them up thickly. Watch out for the gas flame if you have a gas cook top.)
  
• Pepper Grinder
  
• Ramekins (for mise en place -- aka stuff you're working with as you cook like salt, spices, other small ingredients)
  
• Pots & Pans:
  
• Stock Pot
  
• Sauce Pan
  
• Skillet
  
• Cast Iron Skillet (optional ; make sure you learn how to care for cast iron - no soap ever, etc.)
  
• Non Stick Skillet (optional)
  
• Bakeware:
  
• Half sheet pans / Cookie Sheets (get 2 or more)
  
• Cooling Racks (these should fit in the cookie sheets)
  
• Cake Pans
  
• Loaf Pan
  
• Small Pyrex casserole
  
• Large Pyrex casserole
  

Doh I replied above before I saw these replies D:

Amazon's food service section suffers from the same problem I had with their industrial/lab/... equipment pages, which is that it's really hard to separate out the "commercial" items from the rest of the items for sale. It's also not always that great of a price unless you need stuff with prime shipping.

Like http://www.amazon.com/Focus-Foodservice-Commercial-Bakeware-Aluminum/dp/B00188AJN6 is atrocious. That's (I'm pretty sure, down to the reviews complaining about the stickers) what I'm using at home and they were more like $1-2 each on sale. Might be $4-5 regular price or if you buy it from like webstaurantstore or somewhere else online just to deal with shipping and handling.

But there's been a couple times where I needed some obscure piece of equipment and Amazon had it for free 2 day shipping, so :)

Absolutely hit me up with a PM, I love talking baked goods!

That second image is exactly what I mean by a scraper, you've even got a fancy one!

This is what I mean by a sturdy baking sheet. They're not too pricey or anything, just people tend to cheap out on the sheets, but have you ever had one that would make a "pop" noise after being in the oven a few minutes, and when you pull it out it's all warped until it cools back down? Yeah, that can really ruin a lot of hard work, and it's totally preventable.

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2. This works too