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Sheet pans, cookie sheets, baking trays - what are they called where you live?

 
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I’m trying to use terms that are familiar around the world in my sourdough book. So far I have been calling these “sheet pan”. In the US I think they are called cookie sheets but we don’t call them that here. I think they’re usually called baking trays here, but “sheet pan” makes me think more specifically of a flat baking tray, whereas baking tray could either be a flat tray, or one with sides.

What are they called where you live? And is “sheet pan” a good description?
 
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Another confusing topic when trying to cope with recipes from "furrin" parts!  Don't get me onto the topic of sticks of butter.
I call it a baking tray.  A baking pan has sides - for roasts etc.  Cookie sheet possible option, since they need to slide off to cool.  Sheet pan In my head is something large and flat with sides, specifically for baking sheet cake.  Perhaps include a picture with the items used in the recipes, regardless of what it's called in the text. Cheers.
 
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Growing up, I used a cookie sheet for cookies.

Later I heard the term baking sheet as refereed to baking a cake.  So called Sheet cake.

I don't know ...
 
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I would call a flat tray for baking scones, biscuits etc a baking tray. I'd probably call it that even if it had sides, but maybe it should be a roasting tray or oven tray this page about cookware suggests that subtle difference.


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I do like trays that have no sides as they are simpler for sliding baked goods off from, but the sides are also useful for containing liquids to prevent spills in the oven, or accidents in removing from the hot place!
 
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To me, a cookie sheet is a baking tray with a tapered lip. A sheet pan is different from a cookie sheet because it has a deeper lip around it.

I'm in the Northeast.
 
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Those broad flat pans, with or without a 1" (2.5cm) lip have mostly been called "cookie sheets" around me. I have lived mostly in the US -- on both coasts and in three Midwest states.

(I think I'd call three of the pans in Nancy's picture above, cookie sheets, and call the round one a pizza pan.)
 
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A sheet pan, also referred to as baking tray, baking sheet, or baking pan, is a flat, rectangular metal pan placed in an oven and used for baking pastries such as bread rolls, cookies, sheet cakes, Swiss rolls, and pizzas.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheet_pan

I feel it has a lot of tradition as in what our parents/grandparents call it.

I never heard of Sheet Pan until I learned from a baking friend about sheet cake ...
 
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For me, raised in SoCal USA, a sheet pan has edges (shallow ones) on all 4 sides. A cookie sheet only 3.

Sheet pans are things I was introduced to when I worked in a commercial kitchen. Cookie sheets were what we had at home.

Both Crate & Barrel and King Arthur Flour have "cookie sheets" which have different sized rims.

https://shop.kingarthurbaking.com/items/king-arthur-traditional-cookie-sheet?
https://www.crateandbarrel.com/crate-and-barrel-silver-non-stick-cookie-sheet/s440961?


 
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Canadian here - raised in Ont. and now on the west coast.

I called all flat pans with a minimal lip anywhere, "cookie sheets", although eventually learned that my favorite ones are likely called by some a jelly-roll pan.

When I stuck "sheet pan" into my google, it immediately popped up pictures of flat pans of various flavors. So my question becomes, "how critical to the recipes is the particular flavor of pan?"

If the answer is, "anything flat with or without a small lip", I'd go with baking sheet myself, but that could be the strong English background speaking up from my unconscious side?
 
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Jay Angler wrote:So my question becomes, "how critical to the recipes is the particular flavor of pan?"

If the answer is, "anything flat with or without a small lip", I'd go with baking sheet myself, but that could be the strong English background speaking up from my unconscious side?



I use these pans for a couple of things. One of them is to trap steam on top of pan loaves, so either with or without lip would work fine for this. Another thing I use them for is as a pan to bake cookies, rolls, pastries, and so on, and either option would work fine for that. I don't use a pizza stone, but I say in the book that you could use a cookie sheet instead of a pizza peel for transferring dough to a pizza stone, so it would definitely have to have at least one side without a lip for this purpose.

The kind that I use came with my oven, they have two raised edges and two flat.
 
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Nancy Reading wrote:I would call a flat tray for baking scones, biscuits etc a baking tray. I'd probably call it that even if it had sides, but maybe it should be a roasting tray or oven tray this page about cookware suggests that subtle difference.


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I do like trays that have no sides as they are simpler for sliding baked goods off from, but the sides are also useful for containing liquids to prevent spills in the oven, or accidents in removing from the hot place!



Would someone in the UK understand what is meant if I used the term "cookie sheet" or "baking sheet" to describe the kind of tray that has at least one flat side?
 
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In Dutch that is called 'bakplaat', best translated as 'baking tray'.
 
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I'm Aussie living in the UK, I'd call it a baking tray, too.

You might be wise to put a glossary at the front of terms that might vary internationally. I write fiction, and my main market is the US. My fiction set in the UK uses British English, and a glossary for US readers is a must!

Or in the recipe itself put the different terms in brackets, as you'll need to do with US & metric measurements for ingredients.

I do know what a baking sheet or cookie sheet is, but mainly from reading a bunch of US cooking sites.
 
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When I was young I had English lessons at school. These lessons were meant for Dutch children (in the Netherlands) so they could read English literature, or go on a trip to England/Scotland. So I learned UK English.

From this forum (and some other social media) I learn more USA English, and some Canadian and Australian too. I can understand there are so many different words in different regions. It's the same with Dutch from the Netherlands and Dutch ('Flemish') from Belgium. But still it's difficult.

I hope you all do your best to be clear for foreigners. If it's a name of a plant or animal, please mention the Latin name too. If it's a dish, or an ingredient in a recipe, maybe you can give a description, or mention the name in 'the other English' too.
 
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i agree, for someone who is not a US english speaker "cookie sheet" can be a weird one. Not making cookies, also not a sheet!
I'd use baking tray or baking pan.
 
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