Stainless Steel, Non-Disposable Steam Table Pans - How do you use them?

vb4677

Been seeing a lot of YouTubers using 1/6 size steam table pans for their waste collector while prepping veggies and what not.  I picked up a couple of 4" deep 1/6 pans at Restaurant Depot the other, for this purpose as well as holding things like onions & garlic in the garage fridge for use later in a recipe.
I know a couple of y'all keep your sauce warm in one on the Egg, and I think I saw someone braising some brats in beer on the grill in a longer one (1/3 perhaps?) before charring them up over the flame.



So, how ELSE do you use these thing?
AND, should I get some different dimensions for some other cool applications?

lousubcap

paging @lkapigian.  

fishlessman

use them for changing oil in the outboards, parts container when rebuilding things.....

lkapigian

I use them all the time, full size for prepping protein, load the bottom with rub and do my coating in there, 1/3 hotel pan I use for water in my offset, also great for putting fat in during your cook to get smoket lard/tallow --use them for sausage making as well, uses are endless

RRP

I have a couple of the larger ones which are 12 x 24 x 3. Using plastic bear claws I pull my pork butts in one. That confines the mess and makes clean up easy!

vb4677

Yeah, I've used the throw-away aluminum fulls & halves for proteins and such, but never had the smaller, stainless ones.  I think I'm gonna like them, despite the hollerin' from SWBO about more 'stuff'... I suppose I'm looking for more justifications, huh?

RyanStl

I use the smaller ones in my Pelican cooler to keep foods I don't want to get wet in ice bath above the ice. Never that about using in the grill, but I have a ton of disposable pans.

Hansm

use them in a chaffing dish for of ice to keep condiments cool at the summer picnic table

nolaegghead

They make great catch basins/drip pans for oil leaks.

SGH

For making hoghead cheese and sausage 👍

6baluts

I have a couple and as a couple have mentioned used for icing condiments and pulling pork.
Also have one that you can remove 1 cooking grate on the Hastybake and make chili, pepper stout beef, beef bourguignon, brats, etc.

ColbyLang

I use the 12x12x6-8” deep ones at work to weigh off ingredients. They’ll hold about 19 pounds of dry ingredients depending on density 

Canugghead

Collected a bunch from thrift stores over the years, most are heavy gauge steel from good old days. Use them for all sorts of things, large ones good for bulk food preparation, nest small ones inside larger ones with cold/ice water to chill hot food down fast, use them as make shift cooking pot/pan on induction cooktop, great for food storage in fridge and not waste space like round containers, grinding meat in bulk, sausage making, cooking chili/curry in oven...

Use the largest one to steam whole Montreal Smoked Meat packer. I've since bought a full size exact fit lid. Next time I do this it'll work just as well on induction cooktop.


Was thinking two of these big guys can be fabricated into a nice charcoal bbq, too bad I don't do welding.

Canugghead

ColbyLang said:

I use the 12x12x6-8” deep ones at work to weigh off ingredients. They’ll hold about 19 pounds of dry ingredients depending on density 

I engrave the weight on them, no worries with forgetting to tare the scale.

Canugghead

vb4677 said:

Yeah, I've used the throw-away aluminum fulls & halves for proteins and such, but never had the smaller, stainless ones.  I think I'm gonna like them, despite the hollerin' from SWBO about more 'stuff'... I suppose I'm looking for more justifications, huh?

Use my first pic to convince your dw 

RyanStl

Canugghead said:

ColbyLang said:

I use the 12x12x6-8” deep ones at work to weigh off ingredients. They’ll hold about 19 pounds of dry ingredients depending on density 

I engrave the weight on them, no worries with forgetting to tare the scale.

Did you engrave before or after you weighed? I wouldn't want a recipe to get messed up 

Honestly, that was a good idea.

fishlessman

Wow,. You can use them for food too?

johnmitchell

fishlessman said:

Wow,. You can use them for food too?

Or under the Rover

Langner91

Thanks a lot, guys!  Jeff Bezos loves that I hang out on this blasted forum!

I should probably see if I can pick some up from @nolaegghead, or at least have him watch his neighborhood for some!

Thatgrimguy

Get a steam table and they get even more useful

Thatgrimguy

Canugghead said:

ColbyLang said:

I use the 12x12x6-8” deep ones at work to weigh off ingredients. They’ll hold about 19 pounds of dry ingredients depending on density 

I engrave the weight on them, no worries with forgetting to tare the scale.

Whoa there big brain.  Why have i never thought of this!! 

fishlessman

johnmitchell said:

fishlessman said:

Wow,. You can use them for food too?

Or under the Rover

it is due for an oil change, been 14300 miles since the last one

womaus

Thatgrimguy said:

Get a steam table and they get even more useful

That was the first thing that came into my head. 

This was kinda like "I got an extra nut and bolt with my last grill? Can I use it with anything else?".