Hairy Bikers Pie Maker

[@stuartpage9138]

Read the instructions correctly, it tells you to heat the unit up first and only put pre cooked food in it. Basically you're just cooking the pastry and re heating the food inside. I wouldn't trust this to actually cook any raw food I put inside it. Again, read the instructions.

[@patrickwu9569]

This is how most people make their pies because putting pastry into a hot pie maker leaves you with burned fingers, also they are not intended to cook raw food per se. Filling is pre-cooked and can be cold or hot.

[@philiptownsend4026]

Fruit pies can be baked with raw or cooked filling. Meat pies must always have cooked filling.

[@juliejames3338]

hi, i have been having trouble making these pies: we heat up the filling first; usually left over curry; but i seem to have trouble placing the pastry in the pie maker, because we are heating up the pie maker first; as advised on the instructions: and don't want to burn myself; good fun though and the pies sometimes; if i do them well taste good

[@mozempire5096]

If you have a glass tumbler, jar, or coffee mug that will fit inside, you can drape the pastry over that to "pre-shape" it, and it will also make it easier to put the pastry in the maker, tilt it toward the jar. Then add your filling and bake as normal.

[@juliejames3338]

@@mozempire5096 thanks i will try that

[@debeeriz]

my pie maker cutter does not have excess pastry for the bottoms or the tops and cooks pies in 8 minutes, but mine is not as deep as yours. l was going to go for the deeper one but l like the idea of using bread instead of pastry, which you cant do on the deep dish as they dont make sliced bread that big

[@lissyniña]

I think it should have been pre-heated...

[@philiptownsend4026]

I heard that the instructions said that but I disagree as the pastry would become damaged by heat while assembling the pie, also burned fingers. When a pies is made in a conventional pastry dish the dish is cold and then the pie goes in the oven

[@catherinehawkins3211]

no, then the pastry melts before you can put the filling in snd your pie will leak

[@svlittlegem]

Shouldit you have sprayed some cooking oil on the pies to stop them from sticking ?. Gerard.

[@Space-O-2001]

Yeah you can actually see in the manual it states season it with veg oil. You'd think if you're going to the effort of uploading a YT video you'd at least follow the manufacturers guide line. What annoys me about the design of these things is the crimping ring needs to ideally trim off any excess pastry given that using a knife risks damaging the non-stick ceramic coating (unless it just splits off easily, hard to tell).

[@johnmaughan7508]

Only needs to be seasoned once before using.

[@quintin431]

My 6 year old did better

[@JohnHarris-pc9yd]

what a joke