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