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GF Baking Pans is now offering its full 4 1/2 inch deep, heavy 
duty, 14 gauge aluminum, commercial quality loaf pans at a reduced 
price. These pans are custom made to GF Baking Pans specifications 
by a USA baking equipment manufacturer and are the same quality as 
baking pans used in the professional baking industry.  The long 
lasting, heavy duty aluminum pans have no coating that can scatch 
or wearout and can NEVER rust.  They are a one-time investment that 
will give you many years of service and enjoyment.  Two sizes are 
available.  A 13 inch long by 4 1/4 inch wide loaf pan for 3+ cup 
flour breads, and an 8 1/2 inch long by 4 1/4 inch wide loaf pan 
for 2+ cup flour breads.

These loaf pans are ONLY offered by GF Baking Pans and are 
specifically designed to produce full 4 inch high sandwich size 
loaves of gluten-free bread.  A 4 1/2 inch deep loaf pan is not 
available from ANY OTHER baking pan supplier.  Typical retail 
bread loaf pans are rarely more than 3 inches deep.  That extra 
1 1/2 inch depth makes a huge difference in the gluten-free bread 
baking experience, providing previously unavailable support needed 
for a bread baked without gluten.  Heavy aluminum evenly distributes 
the oven heat, and its reflective surface helps prevent delicate 
gluten-free flours from burning.  Beautiful, perfect high-rise 
gluten-free loaves can be baked in these pans, and the GF Baking 
Pans website has the photographs to prove it!  GF Baking Pans now 
has a delicious Millet Sorghum Banana Yogurt Bread recipe to go 
along with its Oat Sorghum Banana Yogurt Bread recipe for those of 
you not comfortable using oat flour.  

See "Tips & Recipes" and visit GF Baking Pans at: 
http://www.gfbakingpans.com

Quite frankly, sales at GF Baking Pans have not been good since its 
introduction one month ago.  Financial reality means that GF Baking 
Pans is assessing whether to continue making these unique 4 1/2 inch 
deep loaf pans available to the gluten-intolerant.  These heavy duty, 
aluminum commercial quality custom-made loaf pans are, out of 
necessity, priced much higher than the cheap, mass-produced 
imported shallow thin aluminized-steel loaf pans available in retail 
stores.  GF Baking Pans is offering these loaf pans to you at a fair 
price, and the current reduced sale price barely covers the expenses 
of GF Baking Pans.  We would love to be able to sell them to you 
cheaper.  We can't.

Importers of cheap mass-produced shallow loaf pans can sell to a 
market of over 300 million people in the USA.  There are 
potentially some 3 million people with celiac disease in the USA.  
But, according to Fasano A, Berti I, Gerarduzzi T, et al. 
(Prevalence of celiac disease in at-risk and not-at-risk groups in 
the United States: A large multicenter study. Arch Intern Med 
2003;163:286-92), the majority of individuals with celiac disease 
remain undiagnosed in the USA, with a calculated ratio of diagnosed 
to undiagnosed cases being as high as 1 to 50-100.  That means out 
of 3 million possible cases of celiac disease, only some 30,000 to 
60,000 are diagnosed.  Of these diagnosed cases, not all are gluten-
free compliant; many are children; and many choose not to do their 
own bread baking.  That leaves only a very limited market of 
individuals who may be interested in purchasing an extra deep loaf 
pan.  GF Baking Pans cannot equip to mass-produce extra deep loafs 
for such a limited market, and cannot apply "economy of scale" to 
reduce its prices or compete with the price of imported mass-produced 
shallow loaf pans.

GF Baking Pans wishes to continue offering these special loaf pans 
to the gluten-intolerant community, but it is only through your 
response that this can continue.  GF Baking Pans has only a limited 
number of extra deep loaf pans in stock.  When this inventory is 
gone, you will likely never again have the opportunity to buy a 
similar loaf pan.  If you would like to be assured of owning such a 
pan, it is suggested you buy as soon as possible.  Myself, I will 
NEVER go back to baking gluten-free bread in a shallow loaf pan, and 
I am quite sure you, too, would never want to bake bread in a shallow 
loaf pan after baking bread in an extra deep loaf pan.

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