It is the holiday season and caterers, grocery stores, college dining halls, restaurants and other commercial and institutional foodservice chefs and bakers are reviewing their recipes for traditional and new seasonal favorites to satisfy customer cravings for baked treats. Even though there are food related traditions with most US holidays, Thanksgiving pretty much owns pie, and Christmas means cookies.
Whether you are making cookies for 10,000 students to add to your holiday menu or at home, baking for family and friends, you need to have the right tools on hand, so the final result is perfect. This is why so many professional bakers and home bakers turn to the Vollrath Wear-Ever™ Aluminum Cookie Sheet with natural finish; the Vollrath 68085 Cookie Sheet. Because this is a half-sized sheet pan, it’s often a favorite of home baking enthusiasts or small batch bakeries rather than the larger commercial or institutional baking operations, but Vollrath also makes a full line of Wear-Ever™ Aluminum baking pans and cookware that includes full sized sheet pans that are sized for commercial ovens.
The Vollrath Wear-Ever™ Aluminum NSF 10 gauge 14” x 17” Rimless Aluminum Cookie Sheet is a bakers favorite because it heats evenly so that what ever you’re baking on this cookie sheet is evenly baked from items in the center to product on the outside edges. Additionally, if you read through the multitude of online customer reviews for the Vollrath 68085 cookie sheet, and there are many, many reviews available, a good majority of the reviewers reference that this is a thick cookie sheet so you don’t get the warping that can happen over time with other cookie sheets or baking pans that are made for residential use instead of a heavier-duty commercial cookie sheet like this Vollrath Wear-Ever™ Aluminum Rimless Cookie sheet. The thickness is noted by the gauge of the material; in this case, the Vollrath #68085 Cookie Sheet is made of 10 gauge aluminum which is 9/64 of an inch or just over 1/8th inch thick. Additionally, because they are rimless, you have more cooking surface but the two 14” sides have a slightly rolled edge making it easy to grasp these baking sheets when you need to remove them from the oven. The lighter color surface of these aluminum baking pans helps you to not overbrown cookies or other baked goods and aluminum is an excellent conductor of heat, as well as being lighter weight than steel making it easier to handle.
Ideally, you now understand why professional bakers and home bakers alike agree that the Vollrath cookie sheet an excellent pan to make your go to when baking cookies and other treats in the kitchen. But this product has a really strong following – more than most any other baking pan in the online world. Still, we really have not answered the original question in the title of this post.
Why Is the Vollrath 68085 Cookie Sheet So Popular?
More than being a quality cookie sheet that heats evenly, doesn’t warp, is long-lasting and durable; the Vollrath 68085 Cookie Sheet Pan was selected by the popular television cooking show America’s Test Kitchen as the Best Cookie Sheet back in 2013 and the testing and results were also published in the show’s partner publication, Cook’s Illustrated. The video, shown below, has over 72,000 views and the America’s Test Kitchen YouTube channel has over a million subscribers. The product reviews on America’s Test Kitchen are rigorous in their thoroughness and execution and the resulting winners earn a well-respected following almost immediately and for years to come. With a referral like that, you can understand why the Vollrath 68085 Wear-Ever™ Aluminum Cookie Sheet is so popular and it’s a top seller on Cook’s Direct from our Baking Supplies and Pans offering.
