This Is the Last Cake Pan You'll Ever Buy — And It's Less than $10 — Amazon Deal of the Day

Do cake pans matter all that much? I learned to bake through sheer necessity — no one in my family would bother to make dessert if I didn't. I first made do with whatever detritus my parents had collected over 20-odd years of cohabitation, from warped cooking sheets to mismatched cake pans scavenged from grandparents' houses. And they all got the job done, more or less.

Then I started investing in my own gear, and realized that the phrase "It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools" is only sort of true. A good piece of bakeware can mean the difference between a perfectly fluffy cake and one that somehow manages to be burnt and underdone at the same time. Thankfully, one of the first big "adult" purchases I made around this time turned out to be not only the kind of secret weapon every home baker needs, but also incredibly affordable. I'm talking about this Chicago Metallic professional cake pan.

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