Convection oven help?

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11. Oh - yes! Which is why I don't buy dark metal pans

Mine are light color metal, probably aluminum. In fact my aluminum cookie sheets are ancient (maybe fifty years old) "disposable" pans. They work great for baking cookies, especially if I line them with parchment paper. They are beat up but I can flatten them out and they work fine. I've looked at new ones, but these really don't need to be replaced and will probably last the rest of my life.

The bread pans are extra long ones I bought about ten years ago to make my own whole grain sandwich bread. They are the perfect size for my recipe to make two loaves, so usually I freeze one while we use the other right away. I did pay a good price at a kitchen supply store for them. I used to make my bread into three loaves, but lost too much to the end crusts, so these fit our needs better.

Mom had a dark metal pizza pan which gave great, crispy crusts for the pizza kits she used to buy. The rest of her baking pans were light color metal but none survived until her death.