Cookie sheets are so expensive
August 12, 2008This weekend I baked some cookies, the first time I had done any baking since I moved to Nashville. So it’s also the first time I realized I lost one of my cookie sheets between here and Louisville. When I went today to pick out a replacement today I had real sticker shock — who knew these things were so expensive nowadays?
So I suspect the missing cookie sheet accidentally got left in that drawer under the oven. The one where you usually store roasting pans and such. Which meant on Sunday when I did my baking I wound up having to do it with just a single cookie sheet. Let me tell you, that is tedious as hell.
I’ve owned those two aluminum cookie sheets forever — I probably picked them up sometime right after college. So 15 years or more. It was time anyway to replace them, they were not the nice teflon-coated kind you can get readily these days.
When I got to Target tonight, the first cookie sheets I found were $20 each. Some high-end brand, it was supposedly such a tough non-stick surface that the label claimed you could safely use metal utensils on the pan. Now I don’t have metal spatulas anyway, so I kept looking to find the cheaper cookie pans.
There was a 2-for-$10 set, but they were really flimsy. The compromise set, which were 2-for-$21, are what I settled on. It’s a nice heavy metal, feels really sturdy and commercial. With of course a non-stick surface. Not quite tough enough to use the metal utensils but I’ll live without that feature.
Of course now I want to try them out, but I still have the batch of cookies that I just baked on Sunday. I might bring those to work or something, to get rid of them so I can bake another batch this weekend.