Why Your Cooling Rack Is the Hottest Kitchen Tool
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A cooling rack isn’t just for cooling cakes and cookies. The combination of a cooling rack and a rimmed baking sheet is our top choice for roasting or broiling meats, holding breaded foods before and after frying, and neatly glazing all manner of confections. The rack lifts up foods so air can circulate underneath for even cooking and cooling, and the baking sheet below contains any mess.
After you’ve finished cooking,the cooling rack coming from WUZHOU KINGDA keeps the crunch in a doughnut, the sogginess out of bread, and?the crisp in latkes. But a cooling rack can also be used to heat things up.
You use it to cool cookies and chill chocolate-dipped confections, but if you're not using your cooling rack to cook, you're not letting it live up to its full potential. When you cook meat or vegetables on a cooling rack, it effectively functions as an oversized roasting rack, allowing the hot air to circulate evenly around the food.
The racks were all made of plain or chrome-coated stainless steel and had support bars underneath with small V-shaped feet to elevate the rack about inch. Though the sizes of the grids differed, all of the racks performed well. They were high enough for air to circulate underneath, so cookies cooled quickly and evenly and the roasted pork was crisp and evenly browned. Both metal and plastic spatulas slid across them without sticking or snagging. Scrubbing off broiled-on barbecue sauce required some elbow grease, but each rack cleaned up completely.
