TIME Coolest Inventions 2004: Lock n' Bake Pan

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Lock n' Bake Pan

Inventor: Aneela Rajusth
Availability: Spring 2005, price not set
To Learn More: locknbake.com
It's a cook's nightmare: you make a beautiful cake or lasagna and then struggle so hard to wriggle a piece out of the pan, it looks like a collapsed mess by the time it hits the plate. Enter the Lock n' Bake pan—a 2004 winner in Hammacher Schlemmer's Search for Invention competition—which solves that problem with sides that fold down after baking and a flat, removable tray for neater serving.

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