Cheesecake Experts, I have a question!!!?!
Answers: Do I need a springform pan to make a cheesecake?? Is there a substitute??
hey lina, absolutely not , i have bake in pastry shops most of my life and most real bake shop don't use them. they are to fragile ,can't keep all the pieces togather, and don't hold up in industrail dish washers.
at home i use what i use at work an heavy 9 by 3 inch cake pan, i spray and line the bottem with parchment paper, and put in my bottom crust. make my cheesecake filling deposit it in to pan. all of my cheese i bake in a water bath so they bake like a custard, which they basicly are, also springform pans tend to leak in water unless you wrap with foil. after baking i cool to room temp,wrap and refregerate over night . next day take out, and either over a low flame on a gas stove or sit in a pan of warm water let it set 15 or 20 seconds, then run a knive around the cake . the i flip the cake out on one plate, peel off the bottem paper, and back again on to the serving plate. the whole deal works like a charm. good luck and good baking, bacondebaker
I would say yes because the cooked cheesecake will be released so much easier if you use one!
Yes, if you want it to look like a traditional cheesecake. if you don't care about that, a regular pie pan works just fine. You'll need to press the crust all the way up the sides with a pie pan instead of just on the bottom. Cut and serve just like a regular pie.
I use a Kaiser springform. You can use a pan with a push out bottom like bakeries.
If you want your cheesecake to have the higher straight sides, you will need a springform pan. You can't use a regular cake pan because you can't turn it upside down to get the cheesecake out.
Most traditional cheesecake recipes yield more product than a regular pie pan can hold so you will need a deep dish pie plate if you go that route. Or, you can go on the Net and look for recipes that use regular pie pans, which you can get that already have graham cracker crusts in them. These have directions with them.
A springform pan is the best...HOWEVER....you can make a cheesecake using a glass baking dish (souffle style is best, as it does have the higher sides!) of the same size. I've done it before and it does work. Just not as well. Butter the inside of the baking dish, bottom and sides. Line the casserole dish with parchment paper to fit. And butter the top of the parchment paper, as well. Once the cheesecake has cooled from the oven, cut gently around the sides with a sharp knife, the gently invert the casserole dish onto a plate. DO NOT JIGGLE to release the cheesecake. Simply let it set and it should come out clean. I saw a recipe once for cheesecake using a glass casserole with these same instructions, and I've used this method before. It does work. You just need to be more careful. Also helps to use a water bath when using this baking method.
Good luck and hope this helps.
A spring-form pan will make it a lot easier to serve and present the cheese cake however you can use a normal dish and serve it straight from it presentation may be a little off but will taste the same