Vollrath5303 Wear-Ever Half-Size Sheet Pan, 18" x 13", Closed-Bead, Aluminum

The cost is worth it.

Work wonderful currently have four that I use. They are great in bagel and cookie production.

Like so many purchasers of these pans, I too thought I was buying the pans recommended by Cook's Illustrated in their 2007 review of sheet/baking pans. BUT, that turned out to be just fine!If and when the pans I purchased warp or fail and I deem them a threat to my culinary efforts, I'll try the heavier, Sheet Pan Half Size - 12-7/8'' x 17-3/4'' Heavy Duty, 13 Gauge by Wear-ever (which are sold ON Amazon, but not BY Amazon-no Prime Shipping). Thank you so much "UpperDown" (the reviewer of the 13 gauge pans) for your excellent detective work and review of the other pans.Back to this sheet pan. My husband and I spent the summer tomato harvest season whipping up garden fresh, home-made pizza topping. Recipe: Gently combine slices of heirloom tomatoes, basil chiffonade, sliced garlic, capers (and a bit of caper brine for salt), a little white balsamic vinegar and a little sugar. Spread to single slice thickness on foil covered baking sheets and bake at 475 degrees until tomatoes start to caramelize (see customer photos of tomatoes, before and after roasting). The resulting, intense and heavenly tasting tomatoes were beyond superb with a bit of fresh goat cheese on a home-made pizza crust (recipe from Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day: 100 New Recipes Featuring Whole Grains, Fruits, Vegetables, and Gluten-Free Ingredients) or tossed with freshly cooked pasta. We froze quite a few quarts of oven roasted tomatoes that the family is enjoying to the fullest during these cold winter months!PROS: Despite the high temperatures, our pans did not warp. They clean up nicely and stack well. They've baked chicken, pork, cookies, tomatoes, oven roasted root vegetables, eggplants, peppers and more. The cooling racks, CIA Masters Collection Set of 2 12 x 17 Inch Cooling Racks fit perfectly in these baking sheets.CONS: NoneThey have become such popular pans in the kitchen AND around the house that I may have to buy a couple more for my husband to use for seedling pots in the spring. The alternative is to find my sheet pans missing one day and finding them under the seedlings as in past years. Those "borrowed" sheet pans rusted and necessitated the purchase of these great baking sheets.One more plus for these pans, they are clearly stamped "MADE IN USA"!

Out of six items purchased, only the cookie sheets arrived without scratches and some greasy motor oil like substance on them. Pictures don't do it just once, but even the smallest scratches render the purchase of the product useless due to high potential for aluminum leeching into food. The cookie sheets were wrapped with a blue cellophane on top so that worked out and will be keeping those. Whoever handles boxing just tossed all the half sheet pans and bread loaf pan in without any safety covering and now they are scratched or sent to me used despite saying new. Scratches are a serious health concern when it comes to pans and bakeware. Buy fromVollrath directly or Boelter's website to make sure they come in pristine condition.

I got lucky and got a Warehouse deal on a return.Yes - It had a long, thin rub mark on the baking surface - probably rubbing each other during shipping. Not a gouge. No roughness. No worse than many of my trusty old pans.Yes - the sticker on the back has difficult to remove glue. I used a paper towel and nail polish remover, and then worked it with my fingernails. Annoying, but not a disaster. I needed to thoroughly de-grease the pan anyways.Yes - The closed bead was poorly finished on the back. Some QC problems there. Meh....I seasoned the pan as advised by Helen Rennie ( Goddess! ) using walnut oil - tasty, high iodine number ( a drying oil ), and a reasonable smoke point. 4 layers, 2 hours per layer. Perfection!

I already had a flat baking sheet from the same company so I knew how good they are before I ordered. I take extra good care of that baking sheet, storing it so it won't get dinged or scratched. There are pans, and there are the Good Pans.However:Even heavy duty pans need more than a bit of paper to protect them during shipping. One of these sheet pans arrived with a ding. (It protected the other pan.) I'm all for using the least packaging that will do the job. But the packaging should protect the items shipped.

This is my second sheet pan by this company and they are wonderful so easy to clean, don’t stain and don’t warp. I highly recommend these. I have a very large one. Also that fits the entire rack in the oven when I’m doing a lot of veggie roasting or a lot of chicken breasts.