Many of our pie recipes call for blind baking—baking the crust either partially or completely before adding the filling. But without a filling to hold the raw dough in place, the bottom can puff up or the sides can slump as it bakes, resulting in ugly, misshapen pies. To prevent this, the test kitchen uses pie weights. Our favorite pie weights: https://amzn.to/35qEMBk | America's Test Kitchen

An 81-year-old granny has gone viral after entering a pie-eating contest in San Francisco and absolutely stealing the show. She competed in a hands-free pie-eating competition at Rikki’s, a bar dedicated to women’s sports, and walked away with the award for Best Technique 👏 | LADbible

154 slices in 30 seconds! Check out all the action from the Kids Cherry Pie Eating Contest presented by Pioneer Sugar at the 99th National Cherry Festival. Heading north today for the Fourth? Swing by Traverse City and join us for the last contests of the week! 1 p.m. - Kid’s Cherry Pie Eating Contest at F&M Park 5 p.m. - Adult Cherry Pie Eating Contest - Lay’s Cherry Blast Stage, Open Space Park | Michigan Sugar Company