Man flan

[goneape]

I'm making a lemon meringue for the mrs later. One hitch - no baking beans for the case.

Proposed solution - washed gravel / pea shingle.

Genius, dessert failure or hospital visit around the corner?

[Fishtigua]

Fine, using a grease-proof paper lining.

[rolando]

Ball bearings

[vladcjelli]

Nuts, bolts & washers?

[21TonyK]

Anything that wont melt as long as you've got some sort of baking paper between the pastry and whatever it is.

[bingybongy]

Rice - lentils or other dried pulses (I use chickpeas) - macaroni.

[soad]

I've used coins to no ill effect (copper coins conduct the heat better).

[scottri]

soad said:

I've used coins to no ill effect (copper coins conduct the heat better).

Me too.

[NordicCrankShaft]

As above, rice.

[spikeyhead]

Modern copper coins have very little copper in them.

[goneape]

Went with the pea shingle in the end. Worked a treat. Shame that old biddy on the tally's pastry recipe didn't work, and neither did the rest of it. Took 3 days to make a lemon meringue pie! Will use my own recipe next time.

[C0ffin D0dger]

Think it was on a Heston Blumental programme where he said to use copper coins as they conduct the heat better (on greaseproof obviously, not directly on the pastry).

[soad]

C0ffin D0dger said:

Think it was on a Heston Blumental programme where he said to use copper coins as they conduct the heat better (on greaseproof obviously, not directly on the pastry).

http://www.insearchofheston.com/2013/10/in-search-...