Pie Shells - Blind Bake

Here's a little trick, a lifehack, I wish I'd known about years ago! How to blind bake a pie shell!

It seems so straight forward, like duh, why didn't I think of this myself?!? 

After you roll out the pastry and put it in your pie plate, grease a second pie plate and sit it inside the shell. In later tests I found that using a piece of parchment along with the grease helps tremendously. Chill 30 minutes.

Now this part seemed funny... bake the pie shell in a 375 F oven for 20 minutes upside down on a baking sheet.

After 20 minutes carefully turn the pie plate over with the help of a spatula. Slowly remove the inner pie plate. Prick the crust and return to the oven for 10-15 minutes. 
This one turned out better than...

this one below !!! Oops, forgot to use the parchment paper!!

And after trial and error I found that metal pans work better than glass. 
No more bubbled up and shrunken pie shells!

Information from KingArthurflour.com