I have a question for all the TWDers out there. What is the difference between a pan and a dish? I have a cookbook that, in the instructions of many recipes asks for a “13 x 9 pan or dish.” Then in other recipes it will specify that if I use a dish, I need to lower the temperature by 25 degrees. In my head a pan and a dish are interchangeable. What am I missing?
Perhaps a dish is thicker? When I hear pan, I think aluminum or Pyrex. A dish is more like stoneware. Yes?
Off the top of my head, I’d say a pan is metal and a dish is glass or ceramic.
Yeah, this was sort of my thought, but why don’t they just say “glass dish” and “metal pan.”
I concur with the other learned responders (I am listening to parliament question time- must be rubbing off).
Cooking in glass dishes (or pans?) often means reducing the oven temp by 25, so maybe that’s what they mean.
I hear “pan” and I think aluminum or non-stick such as the kind you use to make brownies or bar cookies. When I hear “dish” I think glass like pyrex or maybe stoneware like le creuset.
i agree with everyone above. pan=metal, dish=glass.
funny about the little subtleties though.
a dish is glass