Why this baking bean earns its place
Kitchen Craft Baking Beans 500g are an essential blind-baking aid when you want pastry cases to come out cleanly and hold their shape. The ceramic beans are designed to conduct heat evenly, which helps the pastry base bake more consistently.
When the beans are placed in the base of a pastry case, they help prevent the pastry shrinking in from the sides. Kitchen Craft also says they stop air bubbles appearing in the base, which gives you a neater finish before fillings go in.
The pack contains 500g of beans, with a white ceramic build and a 90 mm diameter form. They are not dishwasher safe, so they are best treated as a dedicated baking tool rather than something that goes through routine machine wash cycles.
