I always use the american harvest fd50...with one middle part of a tray cut out (as suggested in lots of articles) to allow for the tape height. Works perfectly every time and I also now get lots of dried fruit as a bonus.
Most of my 100+ reels were coming up sticky when I started archiving to the computer a few years ago, so my practice is to simply bake them first, ask questions later. The norm for me is to bake for 6 hours, turning the reels over hourly, then let cool for six hours. Then transfer within a day or so. Sometimes a week later.
I've done this process a couple of times on some reels because I dragged some of them out to do a second archive at 96k. The first time had been at 48. Everything played fine.
I've even baked some reels a third time after a year or two. I did this when re-using some expendable reels for analog sessions. Baked, erased the tapes, re-recorded. Transferred to daw. No problems.
I figure I'll probably pull a bunch of these out again in ten years when I want to archive them to the 128bit/1000ghz, 3d, holistic mindprint wafer chip on a q-tip recording media we'll all have then. My hope is that baking is a permanent solution for the reels. If not, at least I have the digital archives now in pretty much the best shape I can find.