Here's information I gleaned and rewrote from Epicurious.
A full sheet pan is too wide to go in most home ovens, so it is not the one
that sheet pan dinners are used for. It measures 26 by 18 inches.
Monstrous.
The pan referred to in the sheet pan recipes is what's called a half sheet
pan. It measures 18 by 13 inches and has sides about an inch high. If you
don't know if your pan is a half sheet, and you have a 9 by 13 pan, you
could just make sure that the long side of the 9 by 13 pan is the same as
the short side of the sheet pan.
A quarter sheet pan and measures 13 by 9 inches, the same size as the 13 by
9 inch pan used for baking cakes and casseroles, except that it has only a
inch rim. So you can use the half sheet pan for these sheet pan recipes and
the quarter sheet for the same recipes divided in half.
Jellyroll pans usually measure somewhere in between a half and quarter sheet
pan, 15.5 by 10.5. That is the size usually sold for cheap at discount
stores. They are too small for these sheet pan recipes but fit fine if you
want to divide them in half, the ingredients will have lots of room to
spread out.
A cookie sheet, technically, is a pan with a rim on just one side, usually
facing outward. This makes it easy to slide a spatula onto the pan to get
cookies off it, but it is not good for sheet pan dinners unless you want to
set off your smoke alarm because of grease in the bottom of your oven.
>From here on out, this is no longer from Epicurious. I bought a set of two
half-sheet pans at Costco. They are usually heavy duty and more expensive
than the cheap pans you can find easily at places like Walmart. But it
might be worth the money to buy one to make sheet pan recipes in if you are
going to make them a lot. I have bought lots of cheap pans in the past, and
I think that I have actually wasted more money having to replace them than I
would have if I had just bought a better pan in the first place.
Now I know a lot more than I did before doing this Duck Duck Go search.
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From: Cookinginthedark On Behalf Of
Kathy Brandt via Cookinginthedark
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2020 6:39 AM
To: cookinginthedark
Cc: Kathy Brandt
Subject: [CnD] Sheet pan dinner question
For dinners such as the chicken one, exactly what size pan are we talking
about? My cookie sheets are on the large side, even have a rim, but for the
amount of chicken called for that would seem to take up the sheet on its
own, never mind the vegetables and potatoes, and with getting out of the
oven, could be a disaster! So, is the pan for these recipes more like a
jelly roll pan? That has a little more depth than my cookie sheets, and is
at least 12 by 15 inches. Thanks.
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