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