Question: Can You Blind Bake Without Parchment Paper

If you need to use parchment to blind-bake a pie crust or to steam food in the oven, aluminum foil will work in a pinch. Regular foil will tear too easily and release the steam you need for cooking.

Can I bake without parchment paper?

Your baked goods won’t stick to it, and when you’re done you can throw out the parchment instead of washing the pan. If you have no parchment paper, you can still bake – you’ll just have to be a bit more creative.

Can you blind bake with tin foil?

To easily remove the weights, recipes variously call for lining the shell with waxed paper, foil, or parchment paper. Parchment paper fared best; its more permeable structure allowed the shell to breathe—and then brown—as it baked. It’s our go-to choice for blind baking, with foil as a backup.