A piece of 3/8" carbon steel. 16 by 16 inches.
Cut, edged, and finished by hand in a workshop on Vancouver Island.
No chemical coatings. Just a spray of food-safe oil to keep the rust off in transit. Then
$250 and a couple weeks of patience.
Pizza, bread, pastry. No two come out the same. That's the whole idea.
There are cheap baking steels on Amazon for $80. They're 1/4" thick. Fine for one pizza, but the plate cools off before you slide in a second. Ours is 3/8". That extra mass holds heat through back-to-back bakes. Pizza, sourdough, focaccia, pastry. It stays hot.
There are also factory steels at our price point. Same thickness on paper. But they come off a press line. Stamped, boxed, shipped. Nobody touched yours. Nobody looked at the edge. Nobody drilled the hole by hand and thought about where it sat.
Ours is made by a person. One at a time, in a small workshop. Cut. Edges rounded by hand. Hole drilled. Oiled. There's a human being on the other end of every one of these, and that's the whole point.
Ours has marks on it. A tool mark at the edge. A finish that landed differently on this one than on the next. The factory one is perfectly uniform because nothing actually happened to it. Ours looks like somebody made it, because somebody did.
For about the same money, you can buy something a person made. We think that's worth choosing.
— from the workshop
In Japanese craft tradition there is a quiet idea: a tool reveals itself slowly. The wood handle of a chisel darkens where the maker held it. The edge of a knife thins where it has been sharpened. A pan blackens where heat has lived. The marks are not damage. They are the record of a thing being used by a person, over time, in a real place.
Our steel arrives plain. Honest, unfussy, a little rough at the edges. A few months of pizzas in and it begins to take on a finish that nobody else's has. A year in, you'll know yours from anyone else's at a glance. That's not a flaw. That's the point.
Buy it once. Cook on it for the next thirty years. Hand it to someone.
| SIZE | 16″ × 16″ square |
| THICK | 3/8″ (9.5mm) |
| WEIGHT | ~21 lb. heavy enough. |
| MATERIAL | A36 carbon steel plate |
| FINISH | plain. unfussy. yours to age. |
| COATINGS | none. no chemical coatings or factory sealants. |
| OIL | food-grade flaxseed, sprayed on. not pre-seasoned. |
| USE | pizza, bread, pastry, roasting. anything that likes a hot, flat surface. |
| MADE BY | humans, in a workshop |
| SHIPPED FROM | Campbell River, BC, Canada |
| LEAD TIME | about 2 weeks from order |
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THE STEEL
/// one size /// made to order
// IS IT SEASONED?
No. It ships sprayed with food-grade flaxseed oil so it doesn't rust on the way. You season it by using it. First few pizzas it'll get darker. Six months in it'll have its own patina that nobody else's has.
// WILL IT RUST?
It can if you let it sit wet. Wipe it clean, dry it on a warm burner, rub a little oil on if it's been a while. Surface rust wipes off. Treat it like a cast iron pan.
// CAN I BAKE BREAD ON IT?
Yes. Sourdough, focaccia, flatbreads, pastry. Anything that benefits from a hot, heavy surface with even heat. A 3/8" steel holds more thermal mass than a pizza stone or a thinner steel, so it stays hot through longer bakes.
// ANY CHEMICAL COATINGS?
None. Plain A36 carbon steel with a light spray of food-grade flaxseed oil so it doesn't rust in transit. No factory sealants, no mystery finishes. You know exactly what's touching your food.
// WHY $250?
3/8" plate isn't cheap. The labor isn't either. Each one is cut and finished one at a time, by hand, not pressed. Factory steels exist at this price point. The difference is ours was made by a person who looked at it before it left the shop. The math works out to something that lets us keep doing it this way.
// WHY 2 WEEKS?
Because it's a small workshop. We'd rather make a few good ones a month than rush dozens. If you need a steel today, Amazon has many.
// SHIP TO US?
Not yet. The plate is heavy and international shipping pushes the total into a place we're not comfortable charging. If you're in the US and you really want one, write us. We'll figure something out.
// CAN I RETURN IT?
Only if you haven't cooked on it. Once it's been on the heat it's yours. If it arrives and you decide it's not for you, write us within 30 days and ship it back at your cost. We'll refund the steel when it arrives in the same condition we sent it.
