Double Pie Carrier
I've had this for less than a month, but have used it to take two pies on a bus out-of-state, and hope to use it a lot in the future. I finally realized: Four or five times a year I schlep some pie.
What it enables me to do: Easily carry two pies at once. Or two casseroles in a square or round dish; or a casserole and a pie. The basket is 12 inches in diameter, so make sure your casserole dish will fit before you buy one.
The tray referred to in the item’s name is a legged, stained, 1/4 -inch plywood board, which sits in the basket over the bottom pie and forms the base for the top pie. The lid is stained quarter-ply as well.
I wouldn’t say that my pie basket is necessarily the very best among those available, because I haven’t tried any others (the price of this one is among the lowest), but a pie carrier basket is hands-down the best thing for carrying a couple of pies at once.
It’s never apparent that it’s full of homemade baked goods, and it therefore doesn’t elicit stupid observations in public. Also: It’s not more plastic to try to store; it’s a handcrafted object, attractive enough to rest on a shelf and look good doing it. It would definitely work for two tiers of cupcakes, too.
Available from Amish Wares
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thom
Don't tell me any different for I have this picture in my mind of you peeling and slicing apples and other, the warm scents of cinnamon spice oh heaven!
Reading your review takes me back to sunny days, the smell of fresh cut alfalfa, hot apple pie or peach cobbler, honey bees buzzing in the flowers;
when I would burn thousands of calories a day and couldn't eat enough, hungry all the time. Now all I think of is how many laps I would have to run just for knowing your name.
ejk00
If I can make one suggestion to improve this (which I did for my own pie/cake carrier): Get some of the "nubby" shelf liner and cut a couple of rounds for each level. This will keep your pie plate from sliding around as you carry it. This is particularly helpful if you have something with a delicate edge, or icing/frosting.
The shelf liner I am thinking of is the kind that looks like it is woven from rubber, not the flat contact paper.
matt
Crap, this suggestion would have been more useful last week, as I now have 3 pies that I'm trying to figure out how to get to the family's place 4 hours away, without having them slide off the car seat and onto the floor.....
DiscomBob
Mmmmm, pie.
piedoggie
looks like a great long term solution. for the short term, I used a cardboard box with the shelf liner as suggested by ejk00, a clementine box with 2 sides cut away to make room for a pie (box upside down, and another shelf liner. for the top liner.
assembly instructions are:
take box, lay shelf liner in bottom
place first pie on liner
put clementine box upside down over the first pie. make sure you removed enough wood/cardboard to not damage first pie
place shelf liner on top of clementine box
place second pie on top of stack.
Jay Graves
I just made something similar to fit in the picnic basket we already had. It took about 30 minutes.
http://blog.bockris.com/quick-afternoon-project
Meghan
My mother has a variation on basket that fits a 9x13 (lasagna sized) casserole. It's been to more family holidays than I have. My dad made it for her from an appropriatly-sized picnic basket and some spare wood (for the shelf). I would never have guessed it would end up as a cool tool! But now that I think about it, it fits the bill.
Theophylact
I have a double-decker not unlike that. But I also have a homemade one that can carry four stacked pies, and we're driving up to New York on Thursday with six pies and two cakes.
CT Reader
or, use bamboo steamer baskets instead!
http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/tip-use-a-bamboo-steamer-basket-as-a-pie-carrier-martha-stewart-102356
Cyclist
One wishes some enterprising kid would buy a couple of the larger pie carriers from the same company and come door-to-door selling pies. When I was growing up (long time back in the early 1950s) the baker would give everyone a white card. If you wanted him to come to your door that day, you left it in the window where he could see it from the road. I know. I know... few people are home during the day any more, maybe using the internet, it could be made to work.
The ideal situation is someone living in a large apartment complex who wants to bake, and has a kid to deliver. That keeps costs down and gets you fresh pie.
Yeah...pipe dreams...just nostalgia....