The Baking Steel Original
An even, consistent heat is the key to better baking. That's why we love the Baking Steel, a ¼-inch-thick pre-seasoned sheet of carbon steel that sits on your oven rack to help speed baking times, promote even browning and produce perfectly crisp bottoms. Though similar in principle to a ceramic baking stone, the Baking Steel's thermal conductivity is 18 times greater, meaning it absorbs and regulates heat better, mitigating temperature fluctuations. We use it regularly in the Milk Street kitchen and are constantly impressed by the brick oven-caliber bubbling and charring it gives pizzas, the thick, crispy crust it creates on loaves of bread and the faster bake time when cooking quiche. It also turns out evenly golden, chewy chocolate chip cookies and well-cooked pie crusts without a blind bake. And when the summer heat is too much for an oven, you can transfer your baking steel to the grill for even more perfectly charred pizzas and flatbreads.
The Baking Steel Mini Griddle
An even, consistent heat is the key to better cooking and more consistent baking. The Baking Steel Mini Griddle helps achieve both. It’s a pre-seasoned sheet of carbon steel on one side and a stovetop griddle on the other. When using it on its baking steel side, it sits on your oven rack to speed baking times, promote even browning and produce perfectly crisp bottoms. But flip it over, and the griddle side offers the same excellent heat conduction, just on the stove or induction plate. The Baking Steel has thermal conductivity 18 times greater than a ceramic baking stone, meaning it absorbs and regulates heat better, mitigating temperature fluctuations. That means it produces brick oven-caliber bubbling and charring on pizzas, thick, crispy crust on loaves of bread and a faster bake time when cooking quiche. And compared to a normal aluminum griddle, the mini griddle will get hot faster and stay hot for as long as you need it—great for making breakfast, perfectly cooked burgers, steaks, veggies and more. It's the best of both worlds in one mini device.