Product Description

The Mini Baking Steel Griddle is a beast in the kitchen. Virtually indestructible and pre-seasoned with our proprietary oil, the American-made Griddle is up for any culinary challenge. Weighing in at 15lbs, and cutting a silhouette of 11.5"x11.5"x3/8". The Mini Griddle is thick but also easy to store. The Mini Griddle has a dual personality. And that’s a good thing. One side is our classic Baking Steel, but flip it upside down and you have the “world’s best consumer cooking surface”. J. Kenji López-Alt‘s words not ours. The Mini Griddle is great as a stovetop griddle, induction plate, and even as a cold plate after its been frozen. Cook with us on top of your gas, induction or electric stovetops, grills, and ovens. Oh, we fit into Breville Smart Ovens and other toaster ovens too! Get superb results EVERY TIME. It’s great for rustic breads, pizza (naturally), breakfasts, meat, it’s just great. You need this in your life. Cook anything, any time, any place. Perfectly. Create some love with the Mini Baking Steel Griddle.

From the Manufacturer

Not Your Average Griddle

The Mini Baking Steel Griddle will sit permanently on your stove top. The heat distribution is as good as it gets. Throw away your cast iron, unplug your wimpy electrical griddle and saddle up with your new Mini. The Mini can hit and hold temperatures higher than any other griddle on the market. Not just for the high temp searing, this Mini will perfect dad's batch of pancakes, mom's grilled cheese and turn anyone into a short order cook in no time.

What no other griddle in the world can do, flip our Mini over, throw it in your oven and cook the Best Pizza you've ever made in a home oven. Designed with our Original Baking Steel on the under side, the possibilities are endless when it comes what you can create with the Mini. You won't order out for pizza ever again once you realize the ability of the steel.

12 pounds of pure steel. With so much mass in the Mini, you are able to sear burgers perfectly without have cold spots or worrying about holding its heat. You will be amazed at the heat transfer of steel and never go back to anything else.

The Mini is sleek and slim. Fits perfectly over one burner on your range and works with all sorts of cooktops. From gas to induction, ceramic and glass, you will fall in love at first use.

All of our griddles are polished on one side with a channel cut around its perimeter to catch drippings, fats, etc. With our naturally seasoned, non-stick surface, you are able to cook perfect eggs and bacon every time.

Our Customers are our family. There is no better feeling in the world than receiving an email or call out of the blue from one of our amazing steel customers about how they love cooking with our products, exceeded their expectations, or that their friends are all wondering where they can get one of their own.

Describe your product in 3 words.

Steel Not Stone

How did you come up with the idea for this product?

A match made in heaven. A unique combination of interests and skills led to the birth of the Baking Steel. And, in my humble opinion, pizza is the better for it. Although for my day job, I work for a family-owned manufacturing company, Stoughton Steel, outside the office I’m pretty passionate about food – pizza in particular. My thoughts are never far from creating the perfect crust. As fate would have it, one day, I was reading pieces of Modernist Cuisine by Nathan Myhrvold. In his book, Nathan stated that the best tool to use for making the perfect crust would be a piece of steel. And that, my friends, was my “AHA” moment! As soon as I could, I hustled out to our plant, found a piece of quarter-inch, high-quality steel and brought it home for some testing. According to Modernist Cuisine, steel is a more conductive cooking surface than a brick oven’s stone. Because of that conductivity, it cooks faster and more evenly at a lower temperature, resulting in a beautiful, thin, crispy crust. My real-life tests with my steel confirmed that theory completely for me! I had spent plenty of time over the years with countless pans, pizza stones, gadgets and gear trying to perfect my pizzas in a home oven. But I was always disappointed. Who knew the solution had been waiting for me all along in a pile of steel over at the shop. Talk about serendipity! And all because of that awesome insight from Modernist Cuisine! I’m lucky to be living out this dream of combining two great interests of my life into one amazing product! Now, like pizza lovers everywhere, you can “create the crust you crave.”

What makes your product special?

Compared to ceramic, steel's thermal conductivity is actually 18 times greater. Think of it this way: if you were to walk on ceramic bricks after they'd been sitting outside on a hot day, you wouldn't burn your feet. The heat transfer between the ceramic material and your feet would be pretty slow. (Slow enough that it wouldn't hurt, anyway.) However, if you tried doing the same thing with steel, you'd probably end up with some pretty severe burns—the heat would move much faster from the surface of the steel to your foot. (In other words, don't try this at home.) Basically, steel creates an environment that's hotter than it actually is. Which is exactly what you need to create that perfect pizza crust! Head over to our blog for more information on the science behind the Baking Steel.

What has been the best part of your startup experience?

Getting to do what you love, every, single, day.