Advice sought for a pie maker

[Reynard]

The only problem with pies is the pastry - not terribly healthy. If making pies, we just cheat these days and just pop puff pastry on the top only. Gives you a bit of pastry hit, without too much.

That reminds me, I need to make a chicken and leak pie soon...

Wrong kind of leak...

 

[alicat]

@glasgowcyclist, this one from Coopers of Stortford looks bigger than the one you first mentioned.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

@glasgowcyclist, this one from Coopers of Stortford looks bigger than the one you first mentioned.

Thanks. It’s the same depth at 4.5cm although does claim 11.2cm across but I suspect that’s to the outer edge of the crimped pastry.

Decisions, decisions!

 

[Profpointy]

I wonder if Vernon would have approved of such a thing? 🤔

Am I the only one imagining some highly dangerous contraption powered by one of his homemade pulse jet engines.

edit: I should probably have said "dangerous looking" rather than "dangerous" as I'm sure he was highly capable in such matters. Sadly I never met him, but I still feel I knew him as a kindred spirit.

 

[Salty seadog]

Thanks. It’s the same depth at 4.5cm although does claim 11.2cm across but I suspect that’s to the outer edge of the crimped pastry.

Decisions, decisions!

My rule of thumb is get a high ratio of meat to crust. Integral mathematics can help here I believe.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Hairy Berry was watching the men's baking group bake pies in these a few weeks ago on some random TV programme with the Hairy Fellers. Seemed to go okay, and the results met with her approval, I recall.

There's a social enterprise in Newcastle called Food Nation. They run a men's pie club and according to the photos on their social media they use that sort of pie maker very successfully.

 

[si_c]

My rule of thumb is get a high ratio of meat to crust. Integral mathematics can help here I believe.

Indeed, the measure you're looking for is the Cross Sectional AUC - Area Under Crust.

 

[KnittyNorah]

Thanks. It’s the same depth at 4.5cm although does claim 11.2cm across but I suspect that’s to the outer edge of the crimped pastry.

Decisions, decisions!

This one claims to make pies which are 7cm deep.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

This one claims to make pies which are 7cm deep.

Thanks. The one I mentioned in post #12 has the same depth and is just £28.99 so I reckon that’s what I’ll go for.

 

[Salty seadog]

Indeed, the measure you're looking for is the Cross Sectional AUC - Area Under Crust.

Surely that should be VUC?


Edited to state I just had the cross sectional area penny drop.

"We mean the same thing, we have the same dream, deep pies"

I'm sure that charted in the nineties.

 

[fossyant]

Wrong kind of leak...

 

[MontyVeda]

What kind of man person doesn't have an oven?

Is this some new minimalist living fad thing?

 

[T4tomo]

What kind of man person doesn't have an oven?

Is this some new minimalist living fad thing?

Maybe someone living in a bedsit?

 

[MontyVeda]

I've lived in a bedsit. It had an oven. There's a bedsit above my flat. It has an oven too

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Is this some new minimalist living fad thing?

No, and the reason is immaterial to the thread.