GoodCook 13 × 9 in Nonstick Bake & Roast Pan

What the maker puts in writing

• “13 X 9-INCH BAKE & ROAST PAN: Ensures a perfect bake every time for your favorite recipes, and it is the ideal size for a full box of cake, brownie, or other dessert mixes”
• “VERSATILE USES: Great for roasting chicken and vegetables as well as making lasagnas, casseroles, roasts, biscuits, and side dishes”
• “SCRATCH-RESISTANT NONSTICK COATING: Nonstick coating provides excellent release while also making clean up quick and easy”
• “METAL-SPATULA SAFE: Safe for use with metal utensils so you can bake and serve all on one pan”
• “MADE WITH DURABLE STEEL: Measures 13” x 9” x 2” and is made with heavy duty gauge steel to resist warping”
• Description: “The wide-rim sides make the pan easy to take in and out of the oven, even while wearing oven mitts.”
• From the name: “Scratch-Resistant Metal-Utensil Safe Nonstick”, “Gray”
• Reference 04010 · Catalog: 330 × 229 × 51 mm (13 × 9.02 × 2.01 in)

The only single pan here whose published size is its real size

The bullet publishes 13” × 9” × 2”. The catalog reads 330 × 229 × 51 mm — 13.00 × 9.02 × 2.01 inches.

Exact, in all three dimensions.

The loaf pans on this shelf do not do this. The GoodCook 9 × 5 at $5.99 catalogs at 279 × 152 mm = 11.0 × 6.0 inches; the KitchenAid 9 × 5 at $14.99 catalogs at the same 279 × 152 mm. Two inches over in each direction, from two different makers, on the same nominal size.

The geometry explains both. A loaf pan is a tapered box — the quoted size is the base, the walls slope outwards so the loaf releases, and the rim is wider. A shallow 13 × 9 has near-vertical walls, so base and rim agree and one figure describes the pan.

The sister pan confirms it: the MegaGrip 8 × 8 at $10.09 catalogs at 203 × 203 mm = 8.0 × 8.0, exactly.

What to watch instead is the rim. The description sells “wide-rim sides” and never measures them. A wide rim is outside the 13 × 9 and adds to what the pan actually occupies.

On fit: 13 × 9 is the standard American pan and a domestic oven shelf is around 22 inches wide. One fits across comfortably. Two do not.

A full box of mix, which is the most useful sentence on this shelf

“it is the ideal size for a full box of cake, brownie, or other dessert mixes”

That is the one claim here that tells you what to do with the pan rather than what it is made of.

A boxed cake or brownie mix in the United States is written for a 13 × 9 pan — it is the default on the back of the packet, and the alternative instructions are always for two 9-inch rounds or an 8 × 8. So this pan takes one box with no arithmetic.

The shelf, in box-mix terms:

this, 13 × 9 — one full box MegaGrip 8 × 8, $10.09 — the half-batch pan, and a mix baked in it comes out roughly twice as deep Amazon Basics six-piece, $31.99 — includes a 13 × 9 roast pan and a 13 × 9 baking sheet and two 9-inch rounds, so it covers both sets of instructions on the box the three 9 × 5 loaf pans — neither, which is why a boxed mix never gives loaf instructions

And bullet two broadens it honestly: “roasting chicken and vegetables as well as making lasagnas, casseroles, roasts, biscuits, and side dishes”.

A 13 × 9 × 2 pan is the most generally useful shape in a kitchen, and the reason is the two-inch depth: deep enough to hold the juices off a chicken, shallow enough for a tray bake to brown.

Metal-utensil safe, in the name as well as the bullets

“Scratch-Resistant Metal-Utensil Safe Nonstick” is in the product name, and bullet four repeats it: “Safe for use with metal utensils so you can bake and serve all on one pan.”

No rival on this shelf claims it anywhere. Not Sur La Table, not either KitchenAid, not Amazon Basics, not Elbee.

GoodCook claims it on three of four — this, the 9 × 5 and the 8 × 4 set — and not on the MegaGrip, which says only “scratch-resistant”.

This is the pan where it matters most. A 13 × 9 is what a lasagne, a tray bake and a sheet of brownies are made in, and all three are cut in the pan and lifted out in portions.

That is the single most destructive thing you can do to a non-stick surface — a point load dragged across it. One cut and batter works under the edge, food sticks there permanently, and the break propagates every time something scrapes past.

A pan not rated for metal will be cut anyway, the first time somebody wants the corner brownie.

The shelf hints at why only GoodCook grants it. The Sur La Table pan at $11.70 publishes “PFOA, PFAS, PTFE Free” — so a coating that is not a fluoropolymer — and makes no metal claim. KitchenAid calls its coating “Swiss-engineered heavy-duty”, which says nothing about what it is, and makes no metal claim either.

The honest limit on the claim: a server or a spatula, not a knife sawing on the base.

Wide rims, which the loaf pans do not have

“The wide-rim sides make the pan easy to take in and out of the oven, even while wearing oven mitts.”

Three items on this shelf address handling, and they do it three ways:

this — wide rims, a continuous lip all the way round GoodCook MegaGrip, $10.09 — silicone grips on both handles, “ergonomic”, the only silicone grips on the shelf KitchenAid, both pans — “extended handles”, stated to “provide a secure grip… even when wearing pot holders”

The other eight items say nothing about getting the pan out of the oven.

Why it is a real problem on a 13 × 9 in particular. A full lasagne in this pan is heavy and the load is spread across thirteen inches, so it has to be lifted level with two hands from opposite ends. In oven mitts you have no finger precision — a mitt grips by friction and pressure alone, and a thin rolled edge gives neither.

The trade is footprint. A wide rim is outside the published 13 × 9, and nobody on this shelf publishes a rim width. The pan occupies more than the size on the label, and by how much is not stated.

One habit the page does not give: a 13 × 9 with liquid in it should be carried in front of you, not beside you. A tilt of ten degrees on a pan with half an inch of roasting juices is enough to send them over the rim.

Heavy duty gauge steel, and no gauge

“made with heavy duty gauge steel to resist warping and offer high quality baking for years”

Gauge is a number, and no item on this shelf publishes one.

The whole shelf, on thickness: “heavy-duty gauge steel” (GoodCook, four pans) · “heavy-gauge steel” (MegaGrip) · “heavy-weight steel construction” (Amazon Basics) · “heavy-duty aluminized steel” plus a “uniquely designed rim to prevent warping” (KitchenAid, two pans) · “carbon steel” with no adjective (Sur La Table) · “rust resistant” and no material at all (Elbee).

Four phrases, zero numbers, behind warping promises made five times across the shelf.

And this pan does not publish a weight either, where the catalog gives one for at least seven of the thirteen items here. For reference on the sister pans: the 9 × 5 at $5.99 is 268 g, the MegaGrip 8 × 8 is 310 g, the 8 × 4 set of two is 408 g (204 g each). A 13 × 9 has roughly twice the plan area of an 8 × 8, so its weight would have told you something about the gauge by proxy. It is absent.

What warping actually is: a thin sheet heats unevenly, the hot part expands against the cool part, and past the yield point it takes a permanent set. Once a 13 × 9 rocks on a flat surface, batter runs to one end and a tray bake comes out wedge-shaped.

The two causes are thinness and thermal shock. Nobody on this shelf publishes a thickness, and the shock is in your hands: let the pan cool before it meets water.

What is not published

No dishwasher statement at all, where three sister pans publish the same careful line — “dishwasher safe… hand washing is recommended for longer-lasting use”. Four of thirteen items on this shelf say nothing about washing, and this is one.

No weight, as above.

No gauge or thickness, as above.

No oven temperature limit, on a pan explicitly sold for roasting chicken — which is done hotter than baking. Only the Amazon Basics set (428 °F, exactly 220 °C) and the Elbee set (420 °F, plus convection) publish one, and many roasting recipes call for 425 to 450 °F, at or above both.

No rim width, on the one pan that sells its rim.

No coating composition. “Scratch-resistant nonstick” is a property, not a material. Only the Sur La Table says what its coating is free of, and only by negation.

No capacity. The one capacity figure on this shelf is on a disposable — the Waytiffer foil loaf pan at $9.99 publishes “2Lb”. For a 13 × 9 × 2 pan the volume follows from the dimensions, which is a fair reason to leave it out.

No warranty and no country of manufacture, which no item on this shelf publishes.

Availability

Read on the day this page was built: $10 at the American Amazon shop.

Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.