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    Will these pans work for baking boolits in oven?

    I planned on making hardware cloth baskets but all I could find was 1/2" mesh and I wanted 1/4". Found these pans at Walmart toaster oven size for .88 cents. Thoughts?
    Would mesh still work better? I plan on doing hi tek but you could stand up bullets easily for PC also
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    I think the boolits would fall through. Home Depot and Lowes carries 1/4 hardware cloth/mesh. or go to Bed bath and beyond and buy 6x9 mesh office trays

    Powder-Coated 6-Inch x 9-Inch Mesh Drawer Organizer in Silver

    https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/sto...192?poc=229937



    work great and you small boolits won't fall through

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    those would work to separate the bb's from the bullets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grmps View Post
    I think the boolits would fall through. Home Depot and Lowes carries 1/4 hardware cloth/mesh. or go to Bed bath and beyond and buy 6x9 mesh office trays

    Powder-Coated 6-Inch x 9-Inch Mesh Drawer Organizer in Silver

    https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/sto...192?poc=229937



    work great and you small boolits won't fall through

    I bought 2 of these baskets today
    Any problem with stacking them in the oven?

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    They should fit side by side. If you have a toaster/ non-convection oven the heat source may not be adequate to evenly bake 2 pans at a time, convection ovens have a circulating fan that distributes the heat evenly.Make sure you test the oven temperature setting with an oven thermometer set in the middle of the shelf you will be baking on, adjust the oven temperature guage until the oven thermometer reaches 400*, the note where the oven is set to acheive that temperture, mark it down for future referance.

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    That looks like something I would cook jalapeņo poppers on, I would go with the suggested mesh trays listed above. Personally I still use a small cookie sheet and non stick foil standing each boolit one by one but will soon be buying mesh trays of my own. I like the idea of the ease this has brought to the process.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MAGA View Post
    I planned on making hardware cloth baskets but all I could find was 1/2" mesh and I wanted 1/4". Found these pans at Walmart toaster oven size for .88 cents. Thoughts?
    Would mesh still work better? I plan on doing hi tek but you could stand up bullets easily for PC also
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    Those work with nonstick aluminium foil just fine. Exactly what I have using.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grmps View Post
    I think the boolits would fall through. Home Depot and Lowes carries 1/4 hardware cloth/mesh. or go to Bed bath and beyond and buy 6x9 mesh office trays

    Powder-Coated 6-Inch x 9-Inch Mesh Drawer Organizer in Silver

    https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/sto...192?poc=229937



    work great and you small boolits won't fall through
    Exactly what I use. I can get 4 into my conv pizza oven.
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    I made my own:
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/157294...in/dateposted/

    made out of these from WalMart (one tray per screen):
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/157294...in/dateposted/
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    I used the 1/2 sheet aluminum cookie sheet at walmart. Then put a silicon sheet on top, this has worked well for several months for hi-tek

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