I don’t typically use them. I go to a lot of estate sales specifically to search for on-disposable aluminum bread and cake pans so I have quite a few on hand to make many loaves during each baking session. I find I like the results of using the older pans vs new ones, and I prefer the way they bake to darker pans, as well. But if I were to use disposable, I would definitely try to use them as many times as I could before before tossing. Like you, I turn out the bread or cake to continue cooling after the initial cooling time in the pan. I don’t ever cool completely in the pan and present bread-in-pan as the finished product like some people do, so I would always have the dispoable pan to use again.

Years ago I washed all the throwaway pans. Now that we buy them at Costco in bulk, they go in the trash unless they've been used for something dry.

Nope!! I only use them for gift baking and the pans go with whatever was baked in them :-)

You can get a 30 piece set of them at Walmart for $14.99 - that's only 50 cents a pan......pretty darn cheap in my book!!

I’ve never heard of holiday bread. What is it?

Absolutely. I cook a lot of food for others, meals for sick people etc. And those pans are handy. I put them in the dishwasher to clean. I also use them in candle making and art projects.

50 for $16 on Amazon, free shipping if you have Prime.

https://www.amazon.com/DOBI-Pack-Loaf-Pans-Disposable/dp/B01N63602D/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1539556128&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=2+pound+aluminum+loaf+pan&dpPl=1&dpID=51xjUpDYndL&ref=plSrch

About 45 years ago, I bought 4 half size bread pans. They are nicer than any I see on the market today. I can make a recipe for 2 full loaves, and bake 4 half loaves. For us, a half loaf is usually enough for a meal. So I freeze the other ones. Great for holiday breads too. Therefore, I do not buy foil pans.

I don't use them since I have a hefty collection of various sized loaf pans, including the mini ones. However, I see no problem with reusing the disposables.

I prefer using my regular pans, turning them out, and using paper wrappers, but that's given the time and energy. They have the paper at restaurant supply stores, and they come in standard loaf sizes. You can bake right in them, but I don't care for the result.

I do wash and reuse the "disposable" aluminum pans we use for freezing and rewarming borekes, until they get too wrinkly or oil crusted. Getting the crumbs out of the creases of the loaf pans isn't worth it...

I also have at least a dozen regular bread pans in various sizes, as well as some Pyrex ones, so I seldom use the disposable bread pans unless it's a gift and I want to leave it in the pan to transport or "wrap". However, if I bought them and they weren't exceptionally messy, I'd wash them and reuse them. I do have a couple of deep round 6 inch pans which were meant to be disposable but they are about 3 inches deep and just a nice handy size, so I wash them and reuse them for coffee cake or monkey bread for bake sales.

I get boxes of kitchen "stuff" from the on line auction and usually want just one or two items but I've ended up with at least 15 Pyrex pie plates, all those bread pans and no less than 10 of the small 8 inch metal pie tins. We use those to bake "fair" pies in, it's a nice size and I don't care if something happens to it.

Annie

I do not cook with aluminum. Period. The aluminum ions get absorbed into the food.

And where did you hear that? And how much gets absorbed do you think> And what about the aluminum in an asprin tablet and in antacids....and the aluminum floating in the air?
That myth about cooking in aluminum being harmful has been proven false.

Thanks everyone for ringing in and sharing your thoughts!

Louiseab, a holiday bread might also be also called a quick bread or known by other names. You could even bake up a bunch of pound cakes around the holidays and call them holiday breads. More examples of holiday breads might be banana bread, zucchini bread, and lemon poppyseed bread.

These are more of a *sweet* baked good than it is a true crusty bread-baked-in-a-pan & put some butter on it bread -- i.e. for me, for example, Irish Soda Bread would not be considered a holiday bread even if I make it as a Christmas gift.

I bake a lot of these during the Christmas holidays and give them as gifts to family, friends, and others like our mailman, our vet's office, neighbors, etc. Sometimes I do cookies. Holiday breads are pretty easy. You can also buy disposable aluminum *mini* loaf pans, and you get more loaves for the amount of batter you make.

Here's a link to one that looks good on allrecipes:

Allrecipes zucchini bread

HTH!

I will reuse them , if not for baking, for other things. Like them for flower pot drainage ... and they last a season and keep the deck cleaner ...

lindac92 - Just to clarify, I did not say aluminum was harmful. I do not like the taste of it.

I've used them more than once for fruitcake.