Stainless Steel Muffin Pan, 12 Cup

I was looking to replace two older muffin pans, one of which was coated in black (not shown in photo). The black coating was disappearing, and that concerned me. What was it and why was it coming off? Given all I've read recently about the dangers of black cookware, I threw that pan away. I inherited my second pan from my mother, and although it baked the muffins evenly, I didn't like that I couldn't clean the seams around each muffin cup (see pan on top in photo). The new pan is seamless and easy to clean. I didn't want a non-stick pan, and this pan does require greasing. However, it cooks evenly and doesn't warp--at least not at 325 degrees. It isn't very heavy, and so far has kept its shine.

My wife was happy with the quality of these tins. Stainless steel tins are hard to find.

I wanted a mini cupcake pan that would not rust and selected this one. I was a little concerned because of some negative reviews but decided to risk it. Glad I did. This is a beautiful pan. Magnets do not stick to it which means that it is 300 Stainless Steel so it won't rust! The pan is a good weight and sturdy so it won't warp. I like the way metal conducts heat and gives cupcakes a better texture than silicone. Care instructions are on the paper on top so don't throw it out.

Love the stainless steel pan for cleaner baking. My one qualm is that the pan is rather hard to get out of the oven (one-handed) with an oven mitt on (without squishing a muffin or two in the process!). I wish there were a bit more to grab onto to get it out of the oven.

Got this for a Christmas gift for my wife a few years back and she loves it! She has used it around the holiday season for a few years and it’s held up great! Buy once cry once. Good weight, bakes with ease, very scratch resistant, cooks food evenly. Very happy with it! Makes great muffins and cupcakes

I grew tired of scrubbing the rust out of my ancient Ecko muffin tins each time I used them. I have no use for my expensive silicon muffin pans because they don't do a good job of browning. So I went on a quest for stainless steel pans and came across this product. When a simple product like this has a polarized array of reviews (many 4 & 5 stars, quite a few 1 stars) the shopper is forced to evaluate the reviews themselves, judging the arguments and evidence offered by the reviewers. Turns out the unfavorable reviews of this muffin pan are mostly trigger-happy. They locked onto one or two pieces of evidence and jumped to a conclusion, you know, kind of like climate-change deniers. One doesn't even need to see the product to figure out that claims this is not solid stainless steel are utterly bogus. Turns out some stainless attracts magnets and some doesn't, so the magnet arguments carry no weight. And the manufacturer's unfortunate "stainless steel coating" description was just a poor choice of words, as they meant to draw a distinction between the _surface_ of this product and the surface of products that have a non-stick coating. Possibly the person who wrote the description is a non-native speaker of English, possibly just a careless writer. Which brings us down to the most legitimate concerns over this product. It is made in China, where manufacturers have not yet developed a reputation for integrity and modern health and safety practices. And one unfavorable reported an unpleasant odor when the pan was first heated up. I bought it anyway, washed it, and heated it in the oven for an hour before using it as bakeware. I can't prove it, but believe this two-step process removed any sketchy manufacturing residue. The final negative argument, ("the pan is light-weight") raises the question, "compared to what?" My husband picked it up and said, "Oh it's heavy!" It weighs 15 ounces. My rusty old Ecko pan weighs 13 ounces. When the pan arrived, I set aside everything and made cranberry-orange muffins. They browned nicely and were delicious. The two of us finished them off sooner than we should have.

It warps a lot when you place it in the oven. It warps so much that if your batter is more liquid it can leak. I don't understand why they doubled the price if the product is not as sturdy as it needs to be for baking cupcakes. For 30 bucks, this cupcake pan should be sturdier and not warp. It is worth the 16 bucks I paid for, but not more than that.

Buy it. You'll like it!