Are fancy pans worth their weight?
These obscure kitchen tools will have to prove themselves to keep their spot on the shelf.
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Portland Press Herald Food Editor Peggy Grodinsky unearthed a lot of specialty pans while home during the pandemic. Pictured here: a springerle rolling pin, a Nordicware Daisy Cake pan, a Mohrenkopfform in its original box, a , decorative shortbread pan, a stovetop waffle iron, a plett pan for Swedish pancakes, a Hotpan, and a ridged Rehrucken cake pan. Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographe
One morning last month,I called my mother to wake her up as I do every Saturday and, as usual, we chatted about the day ahead. I told her that after I got off the phone I would be making “plättar” in my “plättpanna” for the very first time. A plättpanna (or plett pan in English, since – confession – I can’t pronounce a single word of Swedish) makes silver dollar-sized pancakes, plättar, that look like blini, I explained. She didn’t remember blini.