Kaiser Bakeware Basic Tinplate 14-Inch Loaf Pan

These pans make great whole wheat bread. The little slices are just big enough to grab out of the toaster. Great if you are trying to limit your carbs, because you can have two slices for a sandwich, so no martyr factor.
The crusts are always perfect and the kids fight over who gets the heel.
HOWEVER - I've had this in my "save for later" box waiting for them to go down to their "normal" price, and just recently the price has QUADRUPLED !!! They are NOT worth that.
I know I can't put numbers in here, but the price should be in the single digits.

Editing to say - I don't think it had anything to do with me but the item dropped to its normal price :)

I have 12 of these pans and have been using them for years. Contrary to the official description, the pans need no oiling. The tinplate is every bit as good for non-sticking as plastic-based coatings. I have NEVER washed one of these pans and never intend to. The loaves are baked four at a time filling the oven-rack pretty much from side to side and front to back thereby allowing a maximum quantity of bread to be baked at a time. Loaves are cut in half after cooling and stored in the freezer and last my family a bit less than a week. In this way, home baked bread is the ONLY bread we use and I only need to bake once every 5 or 6 days. This saves a LOT of money [cost of ingredients about 40 cents per half-pan loaf. I use only flour, yeast salt and water to make bread, 7 cups of flour [any combination of wheat and white] and a pint of water to a batch that fills one pan. [I've made sheet metal dividers that split the pan in half to bake 2 one and a half pound loaves which are...Read more

I use these for making banana bread. The bake and clean up well. I wouldn't go with anything else!