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I like that the bottom crust absorbs moisture and become soft. There is plenty of crispness and flakiness on the top and around the fluted edges.
If you don't like that, you can seal the bottom with a complimentary layer of low moisture - white or dark chocolate comes to mind. Harder with whole fruit pies, though.
You can prebake, such as one poster mentions, but how exactly you'd prebake a lattice topped pie crust bottom and then manage to get the lattice to join neatly at the edges is beyond me. I suggest prebaking only for single crust pies.
If you are buying premade pies, I don't know that there is much you can do.
It's not that hard. Apple pie w/ prebaked bottom and lattice crust:
So, it's glazed crockery? You don't prebake? I have never heard of not prebaking the bottom crust. Some put tin foil around the fluted edges so as not to overcook them.
Well, everybody fall down laughing - When I was a new housewife, very very new, I found a recipe for a lemon pie. I was raised by a grandmother who was a master at pie-baking but not at letting me in the kitchen when she did it. The recipe told me to "blind bake" the crust with a layer of beans. So I did. Unfortunately, it didn't tell me not to put the beans directly onto the pie crust. I knew when I took it out of the oven that it wasn't going to be a very good pie with all those beans baked into the crust. I'm not stupid.
I've been pre baking the bottom for years with the same bag of rice. Also I make quiches and pot pies and always use a silicon ring which goes around the edge and covers the fluted edge. I don't even remove it at all and it still gets baked nice and golden. I finally bought it after flipping around with tin foil pieces which fell off and didn't stay in place.
Does the box say to put them in the oven at home to finish baking them?
I don't know, I don't have the containers any more.
By way, those pie containers are a pain to open. The top plastic thing is wedged into the bottom thing so you have to squeeze it or maybe cut it.
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It's hard to bake a pie crust before filling it when you buy the whole thing assembled from the grocery store, as the OP described.
