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“Dinged” Pizza Steels
If you are in the market for baking/pizza steels, look no further. Any thicker than 1/4” and your preheat times go up to heat more thermal mass with only a marginal increase in benefit to cooking a pizza. These will get you 99% perfection without ever having to worry about cracking pizza stones again!
As for being “dinged”...these things are beautiful. The “Dings” on my 2 are a few small indented lines that appear to be no deeper than the seasoning layer of oil. If you can’t “suffer” through these cosmetic “imperfections” you need to spend a couple thousand and cook your pizzas on space shuttle heat tiles or something of the like.
For the price, I couldn’t pay my machinist buddy who lives 45 minutes away to fabricate them for any less (radii/eased edges to take the sharpness off/knocking the rust off the A36 steel that forms almost immediately). Then there would have to be the countless hours of oiling them and heating then to get a good seasoning. The seasoning that came on mine is beautiful.
The point is: You won’t find a better quality or a better price. You need 2 in the oven so that you can throw your pizzas to the bottom steel half way through cooking to get that nice color on the bottom of the crust!Read full review
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Great deal!
Very happy with this product! The dings were really minor; I have to look really closely to find anything (which speaks highly for their quality control). As they said, it doesn't affect the performance. I made my first pizza on it tonight, using the techniques in Ken Forkish's book "The Elements of Pizza". The steel gave me a nice crisp, browned crust. Do heed the note about the weight - it is heavy. If you're in the market for a pizza steel and looking for a bargain, this dinged version may be just the thing.Read full review
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Everything I hoped for
Arrived quicker than promised. Well packed and in excellent shape given it was advertised as dinged. Can't wait to heat it up!
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Dinged Dough-Joe
What a value - if this was dinged I was never able to tell where or why. It appeared to be in perfect, smooth condition. I have used it once already and the pizza was the best I have made at home yet. I am glad I found out about these. This one in particular was a fraction of the price that a catalog is selling it for. Very highly recommended.Read full review
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Baking steel well worth it.
I ordered one of the blemished one and I could not find a defect or blemish on it. It arrived two days ahead of schedule. I have it in my oven and it works great even when I’m not using it directly. It holds oven heat very well allowing for a constant temperature in the oven. Would recommend these to anyone serious about cooking or baking.Read full review
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Secret weapon for baking
The baking steel arrived at lightening-fast speed and performs perfectly. I tried it today to make gluten-free chocolate-chip cookies, which are notorious for turning out so-so. The result was cookie perfection: crisp but chewy cookies. I loaded the cookie dough onto parchment paper and slipped it on top of a fully-heated steel (one-hour preheat). I used the recipe found in the America's Test Kitchen cookbook, How Can it Be Gluten Free? I followed the recipe and temperature precisely. I've used this recipe before, but using the steel made all the difference. Dough-Joe makes an amazing product, dinged or not!Read full review
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Awesome
Could never figure out how they make the crisp crust- trial and error could never make it happen. Even came to the conclusion at home pizza can never be like the pizza joints...1st time using this product and the secret has been revealed and I’m glad to have found the missing link! Highly recommend breaking down and spending the money for this product-well worth it! Pizza at home will never be the same!Read full review
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Great
I'm so glad I went for the dinged version. I couldn't find any imperfections. I'm figuring out how to use this on my grill--- lots of pizza being eaten! Last night's version was almost perfect.
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Buy em all
These steels are excellent quality and a fantastic bargain. The imperfections from processing are minor and cosmetic, and I’m very impressed by the initial seasoning.
All my friends are getting these for housewarming gifts, whether they like it or not.Read full review
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Great product
Great price. I couldn’t even tell what defect there might have been. Looked perfect to me. 1/4 inch model is plenty heavy.
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