11 hours ago, pastryani said:I don't know much about cornbread, but I'll tackle the pan size question in your post. When I was making cakes, the formula for calculating the area of a circle was invaluable: Area = pi * r * r (couldn't find the pi symbol or superscript). I never really bothered with volume because the height would (in theory) be the same if I proportioned everything out correctly (does that even make sense?!).
In your case:
- an 8" pan would give you an area of approx. 50 sq inches
- a 10" pan would give you an area of approx. 78.5 sq inches
- a 12" pan would give you an area of approx 113 sq inches
So to answer your question, yes, if you were to double the 8" pan recipe, it would fit into the 12" pan, but would be slightly lower in height when compared to the height obtained in the 8" pan.
The ASCII superscript 2 is Alt+0178. (Hold down the Alt key, type 0178 from the number keypad -- not the top row -- then release Alt.) Similarly, pi is Alt+227. (On a Mac, pi is Option+p)
There's also no need to figure out the actual areas. Because pi (sorry, π) is a constant, you can ignore it; all you need to do is compare the square of the radii. For example, a 8" pan = 16; a 12" pan = 36. So, in WalterG's original question, it's 32 vs. 36. Therefore, if you double the 8" recipe, you'd need to increase it by 1/8 to exactly match the amount for a 12". The cooking time probably would be different for the 12", though.
