When i pour the batter in the pans i hit the bottom of the pans to get the air bubbles out of the cake batter so it wont rise up and burst and all that..then i put my bake even strips around the pan..anybody else hit the bottom of the pan?
Jennifer
I grew up watching my Mom practically abuse her cake pans!
Shaking them back and forth and then rapping them several times on the counter top.
So, what does every good daughter do?
I find I'm doing exactly the same! A bit of overkill i'm sure, but I don't have air pockets in my cakes.
I don't use baking strips, but I sure went through several batches calebrating the temp of my oven.
LOL jeffsgal..i dont shake it...just hit the bottom of it..it helps alot w/the air pockets
yep, I tap the pans, supposed to atleast bring the airbubbles up to the top so if or when you torte your cutting off bubbles and they're not deep in the cake. Learned that in class the other day, otherwise I would still think my mom was losing her noogies for beating up the cakes. She practically dropped them on the floor. WHAM!! 
Oh and I do kind of shake them side to side, supposedly to help them climb the walls of the pan better? Or is that more crazy talk from my mother
Bang those pans against the countertop ... about 5-6 times.... really loud! Hubby says he HATES that part of it!
I like watching the bubbles burst with each bang!! But then I'm easily entertained!
Yep! 5 or 6 times! My daughter HATES when I do that! So, when she's home, I place a kitchen towel under them to "keep the noise down!"
LOL if i was to bang it against the countertops would give me a headache more than what i already keep..i do it the quiet way..LOL
Yep, I do. I use a folded towel or pot holder to help keep the noise down. I mix all of my cakes by hand with a whisk so I don't get as many air bubbles.
I bang the crap out of them! LOL
My kids always come running when they here it because now they know the cakes are goin in the oven and I belong to them again 
LOL southrnheart, kids cant wait for cakes...i know my 17 year old drools when i make a cake and take it to work..she wants a piece but i just make one for home so she gets that one
Im a Pan Banger! i dont use the even strips, but just tapping the pan gets the bubbles out and i alomost always have a level cake
T-shirt slogan idea: I AM A PAN BANGER! If you don't believe me, eat my cakes!
LOL - just kidding.
roflmao littlebigmomma...sounds like a good slogan to me
It could be a door opener for some orders too!
Ok, I'll admit it too....I'm a pan banger. There I said it. Ya, like that's a secret...the neighbors probably wonder what we're doing over here when I bang those pans. Who am I kidding. They probably wonder what's going on over here most of the time!!!
LOL Sounds like my house...a 2yr old, a 3yr old, and two 16year old boys...are neighbors don't even make eye contact with us...we're the freaky people at the end with all them friggin' kids and the crazy lady outside in her pjs yelling at 'em 
It's so nice not to be the only one! We're down to one child at home now, he's 10 yrs old, but the others keep coming and going. I really thought my daughter moved out but I still see her at meal times. Go figure! It was REALLY interesting when the 1st three were teenagers. Let's just say, the police new where we lived! (They really weren't that bad...we just live in a small city with a large police force that didn't have enought to do at times!!!)
It's so nice not to be the only one! We're down to one child at home now, he's 10 yrs old, but the others keep coming and going. I really thought my daughter moved out but I still see her at meal times. Go figure! It was REALLY interesting when the 1st three were teenagers. Let's just say, the police new where we lived! (They really weren't that bad...we just live in a small city with a large police force that didn't have enought to do at times!!!)
I've been to Salina a couple of times traveling through. So, now that your kids are grown the police really don't have much to do 
My husbands daughter goes off to college this year and she's at her mom's right now, so we're down to four. And yes, we were absolutely insane for having two more children so close in age after pretty much raising the first bunch (we're both on our 2nd marriages)...but I wouldn't trade it for the world (ok, ok, it was a good day today, ask me tomorrow and I'll probably try to sell them to you) When my 16 year old was 10, 11, 12, if one of our neighbors walked up to our house I already had a hold of him ready to ring his neck for whatever he'd done this time. Now he's just an overgrown smarta**. Too bad ya can't have 'em arrested for that...
Hi, my name is Anna, and I am a pan banger!
Fortunately, there is no 12 step program for this type of abuse, nor for my cake addiction. I can find other addicts on CC 24 hours a day to help me get my fix for tips and tricks and new tools, and to feed my need for (as my husband calls it ) Cake Porn. 
However, I will not join Pan Bangers Anonymous. It's too much fun 
Hi, my name is Anna, and I am a pan banger!
Fortunately, there is no 12 step program for this type of abuse, nor for my cake addiction. I can find other addicts on CC 24 hours a day to help me get my fix for tips and tricks and new tools, and to feed my need for (as my husband calls it ) Cake Porn.
However, I will not join Pan Bangers Anonymous. It's too much fun
roflmao!!! Cake Porn! I love it!! And here I sit at 1:16am looking at cake porn and cake porn talk
Hi, my name is Anna, and I am a pan banger!
Fortunately, there is no 12 step program for this type of abuse, nor for my cake addiction. I can find other addicts on CC 24 hours a day to help me get my fix for tips and tricks and new tools, and to feed my need for (as my husband calls it ) Cake Porn.
However, I will not join Pan Bangers Anonymous. It's too much fun
roflmao!!! Cake Porn! I love it!! And here I sit at 1:16am looking at cake porn and cake porn talk
Don't feel too bad! It's 3:20 am here and I'm also looking at cake porn. It's just one of those late night habits that are hard to break. Well, OK, it's hard to break the habit during the day too. I also refuse to join the 12 step program...I don't have a problem!!!
New way to make money....Nah, they'd catch on after awhile! well, I think we've hijacked this thread. Could be we are the only crazy people up in the middle of the night looking at cake porn..Did you read the My Cake was on another website thread? That one is pretty interesting and the locked thread that's about some poor girl who posted someone else's cake on here...WOW! I've never seen posts like that on here before tonight.
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