What's the difference between quiche, flan, and pie?

Question

As they're more or less the same thing, dont you think?

Answer 1

Quiche is egg based and made in a pie shell/crust usually with vegetables(broccoli/spinach) and meat (bacon/sausage/kilbasa)and cheese (usually swiss)
Pie is usually fruit or something sweet made in a pie shell/crust
Flan is like custard with no shell at all. You could probably make a flan pie though, that would be interesting and probably taste better!!

Answer 2

Okay, I was forced to comment.

Flan has no crust. And being a custard, it is mainly egg. The difference between it and quiche is that flan is a sweet, a desert. Quiche never is, usually containing savory ingredients such as mushrooms, spinach, bacon, cheese, etc. And quiche has a traditional pie crust.

Pie can have a custard filling, meaning it is filled mainly with something made from eggs, but it differs from flan and quiche in that it need not contain eggs. In fact, pie is the most flexible thing you are asking us to define. It doesn't even have to have a traditional pastry crust. It can have a crushed cookie crust, for example.

Answer 3

Quiche has cheese filling, flan has an egg or custard filling and a pie is what a woman has between her legs that gets a man filling

Answer 4

Pies have a single top crust or a double crust, they can be sweet or savoury, meat pie is my favourite. Flan can have a sponge or a pastry base, whereas a quiche is always pastry and usually have cheese in it. I think the word quiche is French or Swiss in origin, a flan is English.

Answer 5

quiche:

A rich unsweetened custard pie, often containing ingredients such as vegetables, cheese, or seafood.
Our quiches were always like a big egg omelet made in a pie pan.

crème car·a·mel:

A custard that is baked in a caramel-lined mold and served chilled with the caramel side up. Also called flan .

pie:

A baked food composed of a pastry shell filled with fruit, meat, cheese, or other ingredients, and usually covered with a pastry crust.
A layer cake having cream, custard, or jelly filling.

Answer 6

A Quiche is generally a topless savoury filled pastry base with the ingredients suspended in a baked egg solution.
A Flan is generally a hollow sponge dish filled with sweet ingredients, usually with a fruit basis such as a fruit and jelly solution or a fruit fool.
A Pie is a pastry item which should have a "lid" and can contain savoury or sweet ingredients, (Pork Pies, Mince Pies etc), if it does not have a lid it is a "Tart" (Such as Jam Tart).

Answer 7

Not really the only thing they have in common is that they come in a pie crust. first quiche is made with meat and vegetables. and another they are all from a different origin. flan is a spanish/portugese dessert and pie is all american. plus pie has fruit and stuff. flan is just custard.

Answer 8

Quiche is an open savoury in a pastry case - flan is the same but sweet and usually glazed - a pie may be savoury or sweet but has a single crust on top. If it has pastry top and bottom it is a tart! Confusing, isn't it?

Answer 9

a qiuche refers to the milk/egg mixture, IN the pie. Its a savoury custard, then flavoured, "lorraine" being a classic tomato, and bacon variety, but many more, ham, broccoli, etc etc.
A flan, is a quiche type pastry base, but can have any contents, even sweet, eg rhubarb flan.
A pie has a top, as well as a pastry base, made of pastry.

Answer 10

You can get a fruit flan and pie but not quiche,
P S pies have lids. unlike flans or tarts which are topless, so to speak.