Holy cow these are great baking and cooling racks! I have been using hand-me-down cooling racks to do both my baking and cooling for years and they just could not do what I needed. The ones I had before only fit 3/4 of a cookie sheet and had big spaces where certain food items would fall through. And even though my old racks had big spaces, they were impossible to clean due to not being a high quality stainless steel. I predominately use these racks for making treats for my dog which includes jerky and homemade doggie biscuits and also for cooking bacon and jerky for my human family members. They fit perfectly in a standard size cookie sheet and the legs on the bottoms of the racks give a nice amount of room between what you are cooking and the pan below. The tall legs also leave a nice amount a room between the food product and your countertops if you are cooling food.
I will warn you that due to the height of the legs on the racks, you need to be careful when moving your cookie sheets or the racks will slide right off with your food lol. But that’s literally the only thing that you need to worry about. The spaces on these racks are little squares which makes it so whatever you are cooking doesn’t fall down into the pan. I thought the the small squares design would make the racks hard to clean—but nope, these racks clean up beautifully! Cooking jerky on my old racks was no joke when it came to clean up, I had to soak and scrub with a scratchy sponge. But with these racks, I literally just throw them in the dishwasher.
If, by chance, some leftover meat is still on the racks due to my laziness with cleaning, I’ll either just run them thru the dishwasher a second time or I’ll pick the dried food off with my fingernail. That may seem like a tedious process, but it’s not because there is never much jerky left on the racks after the dishwasher (if any at all).
I bought 2 of these racks and they were delivered incredibly fast. The only gripe I will make about the shipping process is that they sent them in simply a padded envelope. Even though these racks are incredibly strong and heavy, I don’t like when companies try to cut corners by mailing out items in envelopes or bags. I can understand the company not wanting to waste a big box, but you’d think they could mail them in boxes similar to what Amazon mails their books in in order to protect our purchase.
Anyhow, that’s all I think there is to say, if you are looking for baking and cooling racks, look no further. I researched the heck out of racks before choosing these. They are made in China (unfortunately), but I couldn’t find any true stainless steel racks like this made in the USA. I guarantee you will not regret buying these.