Practice you always realize how absent-minded minded you are when you lot're baking? Y'all know that feeling. When you're nigh done and your oven is preheated to perfection, and then you reach for your handy Pam spray to grease your baking pan and it'southward not in that location. This happens to me all the time. I wish I was kidding─it's happened like v times in a row this calendar week alone.

Now, when this happens to me I practise not have the time to run to the shop to buy Pam. So, I only make practice with other means to grease my blistering pan (or merely pray that nonstick actually is nonstick). Because cooking sprays aren't actually salubrious in full general. Plus I'1000 a college kid on a budget.

Shortening

peanut butter, chocolate, sweet, cookie
Allison Curley
Shortening is generally made of a combination of vegetable oils. As nigh non-stick sprays are more often than not a combination of vegetable oil and lecithin, shortening does a pretty similar job creating a non-stick alternative. Simply take a bit of shortening and rub information technology across your baking surface.

#SpoonTip: Put some flour on top of the shortening and you accept a perfect not-stick surface for a cake.

Butter

margarine, dairy, sweet, dairy product, butter, cheese, milk
Caty Schnack
Many recipes call for buttering a pan instead of greasing information technology. This is  because the fatty cells in butter create a non-stick coat on your pan. I've used it many times by just taking a stick of butter and running it around the surface of a pan to grease (prime number example: buttering a pan and coating information technology with powdered saccharide for marshmallows).

#SpoonTip: Apply a chip of cocoa pulverization mixed in with the flour if you're making brownies. Keeps the edges brown.

Vegetable Oil

flour

Most commercial blistering sprays are made with vegetable oil, which makes this a no brainer when it comes to using this as a replacement to grease your pans. All you lot take to practise is cascade some of your vegetable oil on a paper towel and rub information technology forth the sides of the pan in order to make sure the whole thing is coated.

Bacon Fat

butter, saute, bacon
Jenna Johnston
This one is slightly less versatile, unless you don't mind a slight taste of salary with your broiled appurtenances. However, bacon fat makes a good substitute and─really─who doesn't love salary?

Now get baking. Information technology'll make you lot feel improve.