"Julie Bove" wrote:
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>I am looking at Amazon where according to the search terms a Bundt pan is in
>fact a tube pan.

You're obiously a net shopping newbie... when searching on the net for
"tube pan" ALL pans with a tube will come up including anything
remotely related (perhaps an inner tube, tube socks, even books about
tubing), you were obviously never in retail or you'd know that's
marketing.

>These prices don't look cheap to me. Cheap to me is $3
>for a pan. These are nowhere close.

I was in town this morning to get my mail so since I pass the thrift
shop I stopped in... they had four different tube pans, $1 per, all
very serviceable. I bought two very nice crib blankies for my outside
cats, 50¢ each, they're in the washing machine now. Thrift shops are
a great resource, especially for housewares.