Fats Daddio’s PCC-63SET Anodized Aluminum Spherical Cheesecake Pans, 2 Piece Set, 6 x 3 Inch

Excellent, 5×3 Fits A Quarter of 9″ Recipes
If my title was confusing, I meant to say that you can quarter most recipes for 9″ cheesecakes and fit them nicely into a Fat Daddio 5 by 3 inch pan. 4 blocks of cream cheese required becomes 1!This is a simple, great product. It’s easy to handle. The removable bottom allows you to either press your crust on it directly or cover the circle with foil. The seal holds up both ways; no filling leaks after twelve cakes baked. Use a small glass to remove the cake after it sets. Just make sure you have something with a small rim but tall enough that it will let you remove the side walls comfortably!Washing is easy enough. I do wish they designed the top lip a little differently. It curls around and forms an area you can get water stuck in. It’s minor. I hand dry after washing and rack it standing upright to allow it to drip as needed.The sticky labels do take some elbow grease to remove. I was more annoyed scratching off the side label than the bottom one, but at the end of the day neither of them touch my food and I honestly haven’t thought about it after cooking my first cake.You’ll have to adjust your bake times when using these smaller pans. Unfortunately, due to the small radius, you can’t really use the “center jiggle” rule to help judge when it is ready. Best bet is to use an instant thermometer. If you don’t have a thermometer, you’ll just have to guess. You can use the “toothpick in the middle” to know when it is definitely done, but it may be overcooked a bit at that point.I think the price is reasonable at about $11.50. As long as you make sure not to poke it with metal utensils, they seem like they’ll last a long time. If you buy two, you can work on a second cake while the first is setting in the fridge!These 5×3 sized pans are just the right amount for 4 reasonable sized portions or 2 really big servings. The finished 5″ cheesecake also fits perfectly into a Pyrex 4-cup round container, which works out great for storing them in the fridge or freezer.I’ve personally only used it for cheesecake, but I can see them working for quiche, pies, or even cornbread.

Best Cheesecake pan EVER!
Love these pans that’s why I got rid of all of my springform pans! Easy to use and my cheesecakes turn out perfect every time!

Excellent designed pans but aluminum is not tempered/hardened and bends extremely easily
These are great cheesecake pans that work very well with a very smooth and large rolled edge around the top of the pan which acts as a handle and adds a great amount of strength preventing it from flexing or bending so the outer portion of the pan is very rigid. The finish on 1 of the 2 pans was flawless and pretty smooth. It’s not sanded to a mirror finish but it’s a pretty smooth matte finish about the same feeling as a chalk blackboard. The 2nd pan had very bad striations from poor quality control from the initial metal form/press and I had to spend 20mins re-sanding the entire pan inside and out with 240 grit, 400 grit, 600 grit, and 1000 grit sandpaper to remove the striations/grooves so it was uniformly smooth otherwise the grooves would collect unwanted debris which was very hard to wash and the debris would sometimes chip off in the next cheesecake casuing thin dark discolored lines on the sides of the cheesecake. The removeable bottoms are the same finish as the pans but it’s just a flat disk which is very thin and it actually bends quite easily. The 2nd pan’s removeable base arrived significantly bent in multiple places and I had to re-flatten it using my metalworking tools. The pans would be perfect if they were constructed of something like A6 hardened aluminum which is very resistant to bending and it instead flexes and springs back into shape unless significant force is applied to it. Unfortunately these are made of extremely soft and untempered/unhardened aluminum so the removeable flat bottom disk bends with the slightest pressure and once it’s bent it causes the next cheesecake batter to leak through the gaps and drip onto the bottom of my ovens which causes smoke which causes unwanted bitter taste to be absorbed by the cheesecakes as they are baking. Fortunately I’m the 1 in maybe10,000 people who actually has a metal forming workshop in my garage so I am able to re-flatten the disks within a few thousandths of an inch of being perfectly flat, but I don’t have a furnace or the tools to heat-treat the metal and harden it myself so I have to just keep re-flattening it every time it gets the slightest bend in it. Tomorrow I will be cutting out two 7″ disks from a scrap sheet of 3/32″” thick A6 hardened aluminum I have in my garage to make new removeable bottom plates for these two 7″ pans, and the new aluminum disks will definitely NOT bend anymore like these do! Bottom line: Great pans if the bottm plate wasn’t so soft and bent with the slightest pressure. I’d suggest paying a little more for a different brand that uses heat-treated aluminum or stainless steel because even with a full garage of metal forming tools, it’s still a pain to spend 10mins re-flattening the disk after almost every cheesecake I make lol!

Cuando lo compré pensé que era un molde normal, y Oh sorpresa me encontré que era un molde desmontable. Tenía mis dudas al usarlo pero decidí ponerle papel aluminio al fondo y he logrado hornear varios pastelitos en él sin sufrir en absoluto derrames. He horneado pasteles de chocolate, de vainilla e incluso de tres leches, montando este último y humedeciéndolo en el mismo molde. Súper fácil de desmoldar y lo mejor es que cocina totalmente parejo, no hace bola como suelen hacer otros moldes. Estoy totalmente feliz con él.

Uno de los moldes llegó con un golpe pequeño, pero en general el producto es bueno

I bought this to make a asian style bakery cake/chiffon strawberry shortcake from the youtuber Sheldo. It came out perfect and this tin was the best. I did worry about it potentially leaking from the bottom but didn’t have any issues with that. There is no need to use butter in my case as the cake easily separates from the tin. After purchasing this I looked for other products from fat daddios as the quality was far above the cheap stuff around Amazon