How To Make A Ceramic Pie Bird

A pie bird is a tool usually made of ceramic and shaped like a bird that aids in venting steam from your double crusted pie effectively preventing boil overs from juicy fillings and helping you attain a nice crisp crust.

How to make a ceramic pie bird.

Bird shapes came later. A pie bird is a hollow ceramic tool that bakers place in the center of pies to prevent bubbling over. Pie birds are only necessary for double crusted pie like this fresh pear pie so if your recipe doesn t use a bottom and a top crust you don t need to use a pie bird. This item norpro ceramic pie bird 4in 10cm tall black.

Anderson s baking ceramic pie crust weights natural ceramic stoneware 1 best seller le creuset stoneware pie bird 3 25 cerise. They are also sometimes referred to as pie vents pie chimneys pie whistles and pie funnels. 5 out of 5 stars 478 478 reviews 9 00. These cute critters have been around for hundreds of years but grew more popular in the 1940s as manufacturers started producing them in varying.

Funnel style steam vents have been placed in the center of fruit and meat pies during cooking since victorian times. Favorite add to. They can also be called pie vents because that hollow core allows steam to escape during baking. Ceramic pie bird vents steam from pies while baking to prevent the swelling and collapse of the top crust missanthonysattic.