Food

The most common baking dishes are the 8 x 8-inch square, the 9 x 9-inch square, the 11 x 7-inch rectangle and the 13 x 9-inch rectangle, holding roughly 8, 10, 10 and 14 cups. Use the chart below to match a recipe to the dish you own and to see what each size holds. […]

A 13 x 9 x 2-inch pan holds about 14 cups, and an 8 x 8 x 2-inch pan holds about 8 cups. That makes the 8×8 a little more than half the size of a 9×13, so a recipe written for 9×13 needs to be cut down to roughly half to fit an 8×8 […]

A 9-inch round cake pan and an 8×8-inch square pan are close enough in size to swap without changing the recipe. A 9-inch round has about 63.5 square inches of floor, and an 8 x 8-inch square has 64, so batter depth, baking time and oven temperature stay about the same. Here is how the […]

An 8-inch round cake pan holds about 6 cups of batter when it is 2 inches deep, and a 13 x 9 x 2-inch rectangular pan holds about 14 cups. So a 9×13 pan is a little more than twice the size of one 8-inch round, and the conversion is mostly about batter depth. If […]

The two standard loaf pan sizes are 9×5 inches and 8 1/2×4 1/2 inches (often called 8×4). A 9x5x3-inch loaf pan holds about 8 cups to the brim, and an 8 1/2×4 1/2×2 3/4-inch pan holds about 6 cups. Most American quick bread and sandwich bread recipes are written for one of these two, so […]