I used 2 different types of pans when I made your Hamburger Buns recipe the other night. One pan was a dark aluminum the other was a sheet pan that I had a Silpat liner which is the same material as the silicone I believe. Well the results were quite different on the bottom. The aluminum pan gave a darker crust and the Silpat gave me a light blond crust to no color crust. Think I will only use the Silpat when making cookies in the future. That was my experiment. Normally, I use dark aluminum or my light aluminum pans. I do use a piece of steel when I am making bagettes I have a bakers steel plate that I use with parchment which works quite well. I have cracked to many pizza stones and switched to the steel. Love the April Fools pictures of the baking disasters, my last week went into the garbage can (it was not one of your recipes I want to add).

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