Wouldnt it be nice if we all lived in spacious homes with enormous, well-stocked kitchens and enough funds to purchase and room to store any additions our little hearts desired? Yes, well, its a beautiful dream, but even if Bill Gates is now single, theres only one of him to go around. For most of us, well have to keep on making those difficult decisions as to which stuff fits into our cabinets and our budgets and which does not. Sometimes substitutions are required, such as using DIY self-rising flour made from the all-purpose kind, or making do with a Dutch oven instead of a cast-iron frying pan (or vice-versa).
One either-or decision you may have to make if you do a lot of baking is whether to purchase a bundt pan or a tube pan. While many recipes (such as a Sock-It-To-Me Cake) say you can use whichever one you please, these two pans are not always interchangeable. They are similar in many ways, yet they do have some significant differences that may come into play, depending on how you plan to use them.
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The dangerous difference between the two pans
One feature that tube pans often have but bundt pans lack is a removable bottom. Southern Living says that this makes it easier to remove the delicate cakes baked in such pans, especially since you cant grease the pan as you might do with a bundt cake. While two-piece tube pans are sufficiently structurally sound to keep airy angel food batter inside, they do have a tendency to leak when filled with anything too liquid-y.
One Allrecipes user warned that you should never, ever use a two-piece tube pan for cooking monkey bread, something that is often prepared in a bundt pan. They went on to relate a painful incident involving the molten sugar/butter topping leaking out and burning their daughters hands when she took the pan out of the oven. Anything thats going to be at all drippy should always be cooked in a one-piece pan for safetys sake. Even if you dont burn yourself, a mess in the oven may lead to a dangerous kitchen fire.
How the bundt pan came to be
The bundt pan, as its name implies, is the type of pan you need to bake a bundt cake. While Food and Wine says that bundt cake recipes have been popular in Eastern Europe for several hundred years, were not sure what those old-timey Eastern Europeans used to bake their cakes in. The bundt pan itself dates to 1950, invented by the owner of the Nordic Ware company. Its thought that he named the pan for the German word “bund,” meaning “bond,” but the “t” was added at a later date, perhaps for trademark purposes. Another possible reason for adding the extra letter may have been to ensure that nobody thought this innocent cake pan was associated with the not-so-innocent German-American Bund, a group whod have liked to see a different outcome to World War II.
Bundt cakes really came into their own as a kitchen staple in the 1960s, when the first-ever Tunnel of Fudge Cake won the 1966 Pillsbury Bake Off. In the days before reality TV, this particular bake-off was big stuff, and mid-century bakers started snapping up the pans needed to recreate the cake. Some 55 years later, bundt pans now have a home in over 70 million kitchen cabinets.
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