Muffin Pans!!  Look at that awful thing!  Each cup has the potential to hold oil, bread, cheese, fruit sauce.  Whatever you are baking in there is gonna leave some residue on the sidewalls of these cups.  But then there is, for some reason, a little ridge around each cup that allows for little bitty food to get stuck in there too.  If that happens, you are pretty much guaranteed to be using your fingernail to clean it out.  It’s as if this thing were designed by some kitchen sadist.

If it weren’t enough that the food gets stuck in there, there is the necessary but unwanted wrist workout you will inevitably get from twisting and scrubbing each cup.  Thank you instant Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.  Cleaning any one of these cups would be unpleasant, multiply that by 12 to understand the reality that hits you at dishwashing time.  Seriously, there must be some “muffin pan chisel” accessory (that we don’t own) for cleaning these.

Then there is rinsing the stupid thing.  Thanks to the design of muffin pans coupled with the laws of physics, there is practically no way to drain one cup without dumping the soapy water contents into every other cup in the pan.  Thanks for the lesson on futility muffin pan maker!

Muffin Pans should cost a buck and be disposable.  That’s really the only way I ever see myself making cupcakes.