Uni-tasker. Skip it!!

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completely unnecessary. It is a uni-tasker. And why is there a hole in it!?

I just use old cookie sheets that are unusable for food... then they dont need to be fully scrubbed anyway.

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My oven is a self cleaning oven and I run it about ever twice a year. I put in it old cast iron skillets the drip pans from the top of the stove, any thing that needs cleaning and can take the high heat. The dutch oven I found in the barn, That was a mess. Came out clean, and a good oiling took care of the rust. Now why would any one be afraid of a spill?

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I avoid all things nonstick- its dangerous for all of those who have birds in their homes. My personal feeling is that if it is unsafe for our furry or feathered friends, it can't be that good for me either.

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I keep an eye on my pies to keep them from boiling over. I use a turkey baster to suck out excess liquid if necessary; only my summer pies (strawberry/kiwi, peach, rhubarb, ...) need this sort of attention. I bake at least one pie a week and keeping an eye on the pie keeps me from having a messy oven; so, such a single purpose item isn't of much use to me.

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Don't waste the five bucks. Go ahead and toss your foil.

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If you're a serious baker, wouldn't you already have a silpat mat you could put on a normal cookie sheet instead?

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I think it's a great idea, but not sure I'd buy one. I use a cookie sheet sometimes, but usually one of my old pizza pans to catch spills. Oh, and I also have a fabulous self-clean oven. It's just that all that burned pie juice ends up smoking and smelling up the joint even the first day it happens, and sometimes you just can't clean the oven that night. So I like being able to remove the spilly mess right after I take my pie out.

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I definitely wouldn't buy one, for a couple of reasons. I have a small kitchen, and it's a unitasker. I try to avoid that as much as possible due to space constraints. Plus, I already have cookies sheets, sil-pats, and parchment paper on hand, so I use those, and they're way good multi-taskers.

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If you must use something nonstick, why not get some of those silicone baking mats and put them on your cookie sheet. Then you can just clean off the mat and reuse it. You could even use it for baking cookies. It wouldn't be a unitasker, it would be reusable (whereas new sheets of foil for each baking cycle could generate a lot of waste), and it wouldn't be much more money (Amazon has a 10"x15" Wilton mat for $8).

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Koca, I believe that the hole in the middle is to allow air to better circulate to the middle of the bottom of the pie, so the crust can cook w/o getting soggy or being under done. I'm only guessing, I didn't bother looking up the item.

This is the reason you are not supposed to put a cookie sheet directly under a pie for the first 1/2 of the cooking cycle, so the crust can set. You can put the cookie sheet directly under the pie for the last 1/2 with no incident though.

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