Originally Posted by
sassey
i am a sucker for kitchen gadgets. I received a small electrice pie cooker for Christmas does anyone else here have one? i only tried mine one time and found it didn't work very well for me does anyone here have one and did you have successwith it, if so what receipe did you use?
My DH bought one for himself a couple of weeks before Christmas and has used it 2-3 times. They work OK, but you have to be careful not to overfill the crusts. Also, he used purchased Pillsbury piecrusts. The instructions said to roll them thinner, but he found that he liked it better if he left the thickness and used them that way. The pies seemed to hold up better.
When our DD came home for Christmas the two of them got together and made a bunch of pies one afternoon, enough to put in our freezer plus quite a few to give to Grandpa so he could have "homemade" pies without having to bake.
The only problem he has noticed with his pie baker is that it seems to cook hotter on one side, so a couple of the little pies get done faster than the others. But he just keeps his eye on them and takes the pies out in stages as they are done.
He seems to like his pie baker just fine.