My 8 inch springform pan leaked through the bottom hinge at 2am on Thanksgiving.
I was making a pumpkin cheesecake for 14 people and used a water bath like every recipe says to do. The foil wrap failed somewhere around hour one and water seeped in, giving me a soggy crust and a texture that was closer to soup than dessert. Does anyone here actually trust those springform pans in a water bath, or do you just skip the bath and deal with the cracks?