Pie birds—or pie whistles, pie vents, pie funnels, or even pie chimneys—are hollow ceramic statuettes that bakers can use to vent steam from their pies in order to prevent a filling from ...

It’s also worth using a pie bird. Pie birds have a hollow center that steam can escape through for optimal ventilation. If you want to bake pie just like Grandma, a pie bird is the way to go!

It's so embarrassing. I still love the little bird, though, and remember my grandmother using it. Through the years, I've collected other pie birds, and usually use them when I make a pie.

Cut a few more slits—six 3-inch slits should do it—or you could go the Alton Brown route and use a pie bird, an elegant solution from a more civilized age. Cook your apples first: Kenji’s ...

Pie birds find their origins in ceramic pie funnels ... NOTE: In place of cinnamon I use The Pie Queens Baking Blend from Royers Round Top Cafe; it is tasty, fragrant and adds a little zing ...

American bakers have been using ceramic pie birds since the 1930s to prevent their pie fillings from boiling over, but Le Creuset just introduced a thoroughly modern (and adorable) update to these ...