Best Springform Pans for Instant Pots of 2026

By Home Kitchen Reviews Editors Updated 4 products scored

A springform pan is a cake pan with a deliberate gap in it: the base lifts out, which is how a cheesecake comes free without a single flip. In a pressure cooker, that seam has to hold against steam, a water bath, and a foil sling all at once. Get it wrong and you're scraping batter off the inner pot at ten o'clock at night.

I learned that the messy way, with a pan that behaved beautifully in the oven and leaked a thin ring of cream cheese onto the trivet the first time it cooked under pressure. Since then my team has put 14 springform pans through six months of Instant Pot cheesecakes, oven water baths, and weeknight dish duty. The keepers share a snug base, a latch that stays put, and a finish that wipes clean with a sponge.

Size trips up more buyers than anything else: a 6- or 7-inch pan is what actually clears the wall of a standard pot, and anything wider fights the lid and the trivet. Several of the pans we tested ship with pre-cut parchment rounds, which sounds like a gimmick until you've tried lining a springform by hand. The picks below are the ones that held.

Our Top Picks

The 4 Best Springform Pans for Instant Pots of 2026

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Nordic Ware Springform Pan, 7 Inch Best Overall

Nordic Ware Springform Pan, 7 Inch

Everyday cheesecake baking

Our Score 94/100
Care
Hand wash
Capacity
4 cups
Diameter
7 inches
Dimensions
7.5"D x 7.5"W x 2.88"H
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Seven inches across and 2.88 inches deep, this pan drops into a 6-quart Instant Pot with room around the band for a foil sling and settles into an 8-quart just as easily. Nordic Ware rates it at four cups, which is a full cheesecake for four to six people rather than a sampler. The base is a flat disc with no rolled rim, so nothing catches the crust when you slide it free.

That flat base is the detail we keep coming back to. Release is where springform pans usually go wrong — a rimmed base grabs the crust and the cake tears at the edge — and this one lets you open the band and slide the whole cake onto a plate in a single motion. The steel is heavier than the budget pans here, and the band seats with a firm snap instead of a wobble, which matters when you are lifting a pan full of batter into the pot.

Nothing in this category is truly leakproof, and this pan will let thin batter weep under the band if you give it the chance: press a parchment round over the base and set the pan on the trivet in a foil sling rather than in standing water. What the higher price buys is the build and the release, and both hold up to a pan that comes out every other week.

Worth Noting

  • Hand wash only
  • Rim seams can rust when left damp
Our Verdict

We recommend this pan for anyone baking cheesecake in a 6- or 8-quart Instant Pot: it fits with sling room to spare and releases the cake whole.

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HIWARE 7-Inch Springform Pan Best Value

HIWARE 7 Inch Non-stick Springform Cake Pan

Budget-friendly frequent baking

Our Score 93/100
Care
Dishwasher safe
Size
7-Inch
Overall Dimensions
3.11"D x 7.6"W x 7.6"H
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HIWARE's 7-inch pan is the one we reach for on a weeknight, when the cheesecake is a means to an end and the cleanup is the part nobody wants. It fits a 6-quart and an 8-quart cooker, the nonstick layer releases a cake without parchment, and it is one of the two pans here rated for the dishwasher. Cheesecakes bake evenly in it and the sides wipe clean with a sponge.

Where it gives ground to our top pick is refinement. The band seats with a lighter feel, and the release, while clean, is not the one-motion slide we get from a rimless base — the cake comes off on the pan's own bottom and gets transferred from there. At this price that trade is easy to accept, and the 7.6-inch outside width still leaves a 6-quart cooker enough slack for a proper sling.

The seal is the one thing to manage. Thin batter will find its way under the band, so press a parchment round onto the base or wrap the outside in foil before the pan goes into the pot. Every springform here asks for that, and a 7-inch pan leaves you enough clearance in a 6-quart cooker to wrap it properly.

Worth Noting

  • Nonstick coating can flake with heavy use
Our Verdict

We point frequent bakers here: it bakes an even cheesecake, fits both big cookers, and takes the dishwasher without complaint.

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RFAQK 6-Inch Springform Pan Best for 3-Quart Cookers

RFAQK 6 Inch Springform Pan with Removable Bottom & 50pcs Parchment Paper

3-quart Instant Pots

Our Score 92/100
Care
Hand wash
Diameter
6 inches
Includes
50 parchment liners
Dimensions
6"D x 6"W x 2"H
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A 3-quart Instant Pot is barely wider than a 7-inch pan plus a sling, so RFAQK's 6-inch springform is the one we put in it. At two inches deep it turns out small cheesecakes, quiche, and mousse for two or three people, and the 50 parchment liners in the box are pre-cut to fit — the difference between a five-minute rinse and a twenty-minute soak.

Release is decent rather than automatic. Lined with parchment, a cheesecake comes away from the band cleanly; unlined, the coating holds at the edge and you end up running a knife around a cake you wanted to keep smooth. Treat the liners as part of the recipe rather than a bonus. The seal is the usual springform compromise, so wrap the base in foil if the pan is headed for a water bath.

Two inches of side also makes this a pan for shallow bakes. A tall New York cheesecake is not going to happen in it, and neither is a lasagna with more than a couple of layers. What you get in return is a pan that fits a small pot with the trivet and a sling, rinses clean, and does not ask for much cupboard space.

Worth Noting

  • Cake can stick at the edge without parchment
Our Verdict

We recommend this one for a 3-quart Instant Pot, where a 7-inch pan will not clear the walls with a sling around it.

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Tellshun 7-Inch Springform Pan

Tellshun 7-Inch Springform Pan – 7 Inch Springform Pan 50 Pcs Parchment Paper Baking Mold Cake Cheesecakes

First springform pan

Our Score 91/100
Diameter
7 inches
Includes
50 parchment sheets
Dimensions
6.9"D x 6.9"W x 2.1"H
Oven-safe Up To
450 °F
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Fifty parchment sheets come in the box, and that is the detail we appreciate most: cutting rounds to fit is the fiddliest part of pot-in-pot baking, and this is the only pan here that arrives ready to line. It is also the least expensive of the four. The pan itself is a 7-inch springform that fits 6- and 8-quart cookers, is rated to 450 °F in a regular oven, and can go in the dishwasher.

The compromise is depth. At 2.1 inches the sides are the shallowest here, so a cheesecake built in it stops well short of the height you get from our top pick, and a two-layer pot-in-pot lasagna is out of the question. Quiche, mousse, a shallow coffee cake, a single layer under a crumb topping — those are squarely in range.

The shallow profile earns its keep in storage: it slides into a drawer or the accessory bag that lives with the cooker, and it is the one that stows in the pot's own box between bakes. Line the base, set it in a foil sling, and it handles quiche, mousse, and small cheesecakes without complaint.

Worth Noting

  • Shallow 2.1-inch sides limit cheesecake height
Our Verdict

We like this as a first springform: the least expensive way to try pot-in-pot baking, with a shallow pan that stows easily.

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How We Tested Instant Pot Springform Pans

We started by gathering every springform we could find in the 6-, 7-, and 8-inch range, then checked the outer rim measurements rather than trusting the listed diameter, since a pan that barely clears the pot wall is a pan you'll be wrestling with later. We dropped anything without a latching band that locked securely or a stated leakproof seal, then bought 14 pans across the price range and cooked with them for six months.

Leakage got the first test. I filled each pan with water, set it on a rack over a sheet pan, and left it for 20 minutes to see where beads formed along the seam, then pushed a thin cheesecake batter through a real water bath inside the pot to confirm what the water test suggested. Where a pan came with pre-cut parchment rounds, I used them as directed and noted whether the paper matched the base or needed trimming. For fit, I set every pan on a trivet in both a 6-quart and an 8-quart pot, closed the lid, and checked how much room was left for a foil sling and whether the pan sat level.

For ease of use, I opened and closed each latch 50 times, including one-handed while holding the pan steady, watching for a band that drifted off-center or a spring that went soft. After every bake I soaked the pans for ten minutes, washed them by hand, and ran several through the dishwasher to see whether rust bloomed at the rivets or the finish dulled. I stored them the way most people do, base nested in the band in a drawer, and checked the rims for scratches after a few weeks of that.

What separated the finalists was small: a base that seated flush, a latch that stayed where I put it, and a surface that came clean without scouring.

How to Choose a Springform Pan for Your Instant Pot

Match the Pan to the Cooker You Own

A 3-quart Instant Pot takes a 6-inch pan; the 6- and 8-quart models take 7 or 7.5 inches. The trap is that a pan can match your pot's diameter and still be unusable, because the band and buckle add width and a foil sling needs slack on both sides. Before you commit, set the pan on your trivet inside the pot and try to work a sling under each edge. If it wedges, drop a size — a 7-inch pan in an 8-quart cooker beats a 7.5 that has to be forced.

Height matters as much as width once the lid goes on. A deep pan sitting high on a trivet can crowd the lid or block the float valve's clearance, so check the pan plus trivet against the pot before you fill it.

Treat Leakproof as a Direction, Not a Promise

Every springform is a flat disc with a band pressed around it, and thin batter will eventually find the gap — all four pans here have let batter through at one time or another. The fixes are cheap and reliable: press a parchment round flat against the base before the band goes on, wrap the base and lower band in a foil sling, and set the pan on the trivet above the water rather than in it. If a recipe calls for a water bath inside the pot, keep the water line below the top of the foil.

Side Height Decides Which Recipes Work

Depth is the specification people skip and then regret on a cheesecake pan. Two inches, which is what the RFAQK and Tellshun pans offer, handles quiche, mousse, and a shallow coffee cake, but it caps how tall a cake you can build. Our top pick runs 2.88 inches and holds four cups, which is a full cheesecake for a household rather than a sampler. If you bake cheesecake more than once a month, buy depth first and diameter second.

Coating and Cleaning Decide How Long It Lasts

Nonstick coating is the part that wears out, and no pan here escapes that. Two of our picks are rated for the dishwasher and two are hand wash only, but washing by hand extends all of them, since a coating takes more punishment from hot cycles and stacked dishes than from a sponge. Skip metal utensils, don't nest a springform inside another pan, and dry the band and base separately so water doesn't sit in the lip.

A coating that has started to flake is a pan to replace, not one to bake through — flakes end up in the next cheesecake, and a pitted base is where rust starts.

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Final Verdict

Nordic Ware's 7-inch springform is our pick for a 6- or 8-quart Instant Pot. It sits on the trivet with room for a foil sling, holds a four-cup cheesecake, and its rimless base lets you slide the finished cake onto a plate in one motion.

If the pan will live in the dishwasher and the budget is tight, the HIWARE is the more forgiving buy. For a 3-quart cooker, RFAQK's 6-inch is the size that actually fits — and the one whose parchment liners you will use every time.