Alton Brown - Kustom Kitchen Lube

SusieQusie's Note:

No, it's not for squeaky door hinges. Keep a batch in your pantry to *coat baking pans* and prevent baked goods from sticking. It's so much faster and more convenient than the greasing and flouring business. I use a paper towel to smear it on liberally and haven't had a cake or muffin stick yet. That Alton is one smart man!

• Total Time: 5 mins
• Prep Time: 5 mins
• Cook Time: 0 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 1 batch

• 2 cups solid shortening (Crisco preferred)
• 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour

Directions:

1. Toss both ingredients in a stand mixer and take them for a ride on low speed until the shortening sucks up the flour.
2. Then hike up the speed to medium to aerate it a bit - just 30 seconds or so.
3. Store in the pantry in a resealable container and use to lube any type of baking pan by brushing on or smearing around with a clean paper towel.

Reviews

[Boomette]

I made it with Tenderflake (that's what I had) and all purpose flour. I put it in a pyrex square pan to bake a cake and the cake didn't stick to the pan. Thanks SusieQusie :) Made for bargain basement tag game

[Jezski]

Alton Brown is my hero too. But try Kittencal's pan release #78579. It REALLY works, even in fancy fluted pans. I've never had anything stick with that!...Janet

[WI Cheesehead]

I tagged this in Please Review bcz I love Alton Brown. I tried this with Spectrum's Organic Shortening and whole wheat flour. Not sure if using the whole wheat changed it, but I didn't see a big difference between that and just spraying with cooking spray. I made muffins and one actually stuck. Would love to see someone else review it who used all-purpose flour.