[Sca-cooks] mini? popovers

[David Friedman]

>If so, why are you saying *mini* popovers? I thought popovers were 
>traditionally done in standard sized muffin pans.


>Stefan

I would have said that they were traditionally done in cast iron pans 
of about the same dimensions as muffin pans.

Currently, several companies produce "popover pans" of fairly light 
metal with a nonstick coating. They are quite inefficiently designed 
in terms of number of popovers per square foot of oven space--much 
inferior to the traditional design. For some reason their standard 
size is substantially larger than a traditional popover pan and their 
"minipopover" pans are about what I think of as standard size.

I have one old traditional pan, one new, nonstick, large size modern 
pan. The popovers routinely stick to the latter. I recently bid on a 
traditional pan on ebay, but I don't think I won it--I should try 
another.
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