We started by blind baking a store-bought, frozen pie crust in each pie plate. Since mass-produced crusts are more consistent than any homemade dough, this test allowed us to quickly judge how ...

Even thickened juices can sog up a crust. If you are making a custard pie of any kind (like pumpkin!) please blind bake your ...

As the late writer Nora Ephron once said, “There’s no point in making pie ... bake package directions. While this may seem unusual, we wanted our testers to evaluate the flavor of the crust ...

To avoid that dome shape, ensure your oven is at the right temperature — using an oven thermometer can help. You can also use ...

To make this blind taste test as useful as possible, we targeted pumpkin pies from market chains with a multi-state presence. We did hit up one local So-Cal chain, Vons, but Vons’ parent company is ...