Brod & Taylor Bread Steel

Great purchase!! We had a make your own pizza evening and I’m not sure how we’d have done this without the Brad & Taylor steel. Heats up super hot in the oven. Made a great base for the pizza and cooked the crust so no soggy crusts here! Easy to clean and store. Arrived well packaged. You can feel the quality when to unpack it. Highly recommend.

Wow. If, like me, you want something lighter weight than a dutch oven, this plus an old upturned steel mixing bowl with a knob added by my other half as a cover does the trick. I did not want to have to lift something very heavy and ruinously hot, and was worried about my normal baking sheets. So, with this I just lift the bread. Easier and safer. You do have to use a flat plate of some kind to put the bread onto the steel, but find something you can gently slide it off and into the steel sitting on a piece of baking parchment or similar and it is easy enough. A luxury purchase, but looks like it will last forever.

I have commercial Fibrament baking stones, and they're terrific. But they're heavy as a guilty conscience, so I decided to try a baking steel. The average weight of a baking steel sold on Amazon is 15-16 lbs. That's not a lot of weight for most people *unless it's concentrated in a small mass.* With a baking steel, it is. So I decided to try out the Brod & Taylor 5-lb baking steel. This thin (0.01") steel produces hearth pizzas (baked directly on the steel) in about 6-7" superior to those baked on my Fibraments. It's so light that I can pull it out/put it in the oven with one hand at age 80 (I'm a small woman). The gains you might achieve by using a larger and/or heavier steel will be marginal. The only likely disadvantages to this one are its size--it's 14" square--and the extra 1-2 minutes it may take to bake your pizza on it compared to on a 16-lb howler. Unless you usually bake large hearth pizzas in rapid succession with hovering crowds awaiting them, this more modest, beautifully made and seasoned steel will do the trick. It also produces lovely results with hearth breads, including golden bottoms.

Really useful for baking my sourdough as I leave it in the bottom of the oven so no heavy lifting, great quality item

Pizza came out so crispy and it took no time at all to cook. Can't wait to make bread!