Baking Steel Sells the Original Pizza Steel —
The Original Pizza Steel is a thick steel slab that goes in your home oven to heat faster than stone, hold more energy, and produce crisp bottoms, better oven spring, and faster bakes. It's a simple but powerful idea: use steel instead of stone for pizza-making because steel conducts heat better than stone.
The Original Pizza Steel was invented in 2012 by Andris Lagsdin, founder of Baking Steel, a direct-to-consumer kitchenware business in Grand Rapids, MI. Lagsdin read in Nathan Myhrvold's Modernist Cuisine that steel conducts heat better than stone, and he prototyped the Original Pizza Steel from a steel slab at his family's Stoughton Steel Company.
Lagsdin launched the Original Pizza Steel on Kickstarter in 2012, and it took off after Kenji López-Alt reviewed it on Serious Eats. 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.
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