This is the Nordic Ware Naturals 9-inch pie pan — a pure aluminum pie pan at the standard 9-inch diameter that pie crust boxes, frozen pie shells, and every classic American pie recipe is sized for. Apple pie, pumpkin pie, pecan pie, quiche, chicken pot pie, banana cream — 9 inches is the assumed size for all of them.
Pure aluminum is what separates this from a glass pie plate or a tin foil pan: it conducts heat evenly into the bottom crust so the crust actually bakes through instead of staying soggy under a wet pie filling. The uncoated finish means no flaking nonstick and no chipping enamel, and the reinforced rim keeps the pan flat in the oven and in the cabinet. This is the pie pan an experienced baker buys and uses for the next 30 Thanksgivings.
Nordic Ware has been manufacturing bakeware in Minneapolis, Minnesota since 1946. The company invented the Bundt pan in 1950 and still casts, spins, and coats every piece in its Naturals, Bundt, and cast aluminum lines at that same Minnesota factory — one of the last family-owned American bakeware makers still building its core products at home.
