Any brand new dumbbells or plates might stink when you first get them.
Ceramic pie weights smell.
They are a good natural conductor of heat so they actually help with the baking part and not just the weighting down.
Then once you remove the weights to blind bake the crust.
My pie weights smell bad now.
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They usually come in one or two pound packages which means you can.
You can use soap detergent but the ceramic may pickup the scent and this will also cause an odor.
The more you bake with the stones and clean with only water the less odor will occur.
The stinky weights problem.
Ordinarily i use my pie weights on homemade pie dough and commercially bought pie shells and puff pastry.
The most common one you see are ceramic pie weights.
Plantional pie weights for baking.
The smell is hard to describe but is most likely rancid fat from previous usage.
These pale beads of clay are meant to be placed on top of a piece of parchment inserted into your pie.
I hadn t used mine in a few months.
For iron weights factories usually put a layer of oil on plates bars and dumbbells to protect against rust during storage and transport.
There s a couple reasons for this.
Without the presence of filling the crust can slump down into the plate as it bakes necessitating pie weights to help keep its shape.