Baking Steel Sells the Original Pizza Steel —
The Baking Steel team is a bunch of practical people who believe that good food requires good tools. And they've got a tool that's become something of an internet sensation: the original pizza steel.
This thick slab of steel, which goes in your home oven, heats faster than stone, holds more energy, and produces crisp bottoms, better oven spring, and faster bakes. It's a simple idea that works, and it has been working since 2012 when Andris Lagsdin, the founder of Baking Steel, invented it after reading in Nathan Myhrvold's Modernist Cuisine that steel conducts heat better than stone.
Lagsdin prototyped his invention from a steel slab at his family's Stoughton Steel Company. The product launched on Kickstarter in 2012 and took off after Kenji López-Alt reviewed it on Serious Eats, calling it "the best pizza stone I have ever used."
Since then, the product line has expanded well beyond the flagship Original ($129, ¼" thick pizza steel) to include griddles for stovetop use, cherry wood pizza peels, pumice cleaning bricks, dough recipe kits, and accessories. They sell direct via bakingsteel.com (Shopify), on Amazon, and at Sur La Table.
The Baking Steel team is made up of practical people who believe that good food requires good tools. And they've got a tool that's become something of an internet sensation: the original pizza steel. This thick slab of steel, which goes in your home oven, heats faster than stone, holds more energy, and produces crisp bottoms, better oven spring, and faster bakes. It's a simple idea that works, and it has been working since 2012 when Andris Lagsdin, the founder of Baking Steel, invented it after reading in Nathan Myhrvold's Modernist Cuisine that steel conducts heat better than stone.
