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Help! No Baking Beads, what can I use?

Determined_2b_Debt_Free
Determined_2b_Debt_Free Posts: 349 Forumite
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The recipe I'm planning on doing tonight needs me to bake pastry and I need baking beads, I don't have any so what can I use instead?

I have chickpeas - would they just burn?
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  • lyn735
    lyn735 Posts: 11 Forumite
    No they will be fine I have used chick peas and had no problems.
  • johnjp
    johnjp Posts: 135 Forumite
    Use coins - they retain a lot of heat and speed up blind baking time. Use a crumpled sheet of baking parchment with the coins on top. (I got this from Heston B. last night!)
  • midnightraven3
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    my dad always used dried peas (chick peas would work the same)
    but he put a disk of wax paper on the pastry and then the peas
    or it gave the pastry a weird taste
    and there will be LOTS of little dimples in the pastry
  • eleanor73
    eleanor73 Posts: 1,615 Forumite
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    Jamie Oliver uses lentils-I tried that once and it worked.
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  • Fruball
    Fruball Posts: 5,739 Forumite
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    johnjp wrote: »
    Use coins - they retain a lot of heat and speed up blind baking time. Use a crumpled sheet of baking parchment with the coins on top. (I got this from Heston B. last night!)

    :rotfl:

    I was going to say that!!! I watched it too :D
  • spike7451
    spike7451 Posts: 6,944 Forumite
    Frugal wrote: »
    :rotfl:

    I was going to say that!!! I watched it too :D

    Beat me to it!! :rotfl:
  • thriftychick
    thriftychick Posts: 249 Forumite
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    I also put greaseproof paper on the pastry and then put rice on top. I have reused the rice hundreds of times since and its fine.
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  • LondonDreamer
    LondonDreamer Posts: 725 Forumite
    Pretty much anything dried - beans, rice, lentils, etc. You probably won't want to cook them afterwards, but you can keep them for next time. And as suggested, inedible but heatproof things like coins are fine too. Line the case with wax/baking paper no matter what you use though.

    Before I had proper baking beans, I used to use a really cheap bag of rice and I think it worked better than the beans to be honest.
  • cyclingyorkie
    cyclingyorkie Posts: 4,234 Forumite
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    Another vote for coins here - I've used them for years - and they conduct the heat VERY well!
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  • Determined_2b_Debt_Free
    Determined_2b_Debt_Free Posts: 349 Forumite
    Thank you all so much!! I love this site :D
    Me, DH and DD (17 months) clearing our debt for a better future. Then (LBM) = £21,636.43 (Oct 2009) Now = £12128.07 (44%)
    GOALS/CHALLENGES
    Try to get credit card to £2k by April 2012 (was £3014.94)
    PADing to clear CC 1/1/12 TOTAL: £32.00
    Ditch 100 in January challenge: lost count but way over 100!!!/100
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