The Misen Oven Steel
Precise cooking & better browning, for a lifetime.
Even fancy home ovens have trouble maintaining a specific temperature. As your oven slowly cools, the heating elements switch on and off, over and over, causing the temperature to fluctuate constantly. So while your oven is displaying 350ºF, in reality it could be anywhere between 300ºF and 400ºF. That’s a huge deviation!
When your oven’s temperature is always wrong, it makes cooking harder.
Chaotic temperature swings and “hot spots” are the enemy of great cooking. Without an accurate, even oven temperature, cooking becomes a frustrating game of guesswork, with unpredictable outcomes.
The Misen Oven Steel takes advantage of steel’s high thermal mass. Once it's hot, it buffers and replenishes the heat inside your oven, making any rises or dips much, much less extreme. So instead of big swings of 30 to 50 degrees, your oven’s temperature stays within a window of 5 to 10 degrees.
The principles that make the Misen Oven Steel great for baking apply to everything else in the oven. Consistent temperatures and internal thermal masses make roasting, braising, broiling, and oven searing much more effective, and the results that much more delicious.
Unlike most kitchen tools, you don't have to worry about finding extra space in your kitchen to accommodate this oven steel. It's designed to be permanently stored in your oven. Just leave it inside, and your oven will work better, forever.
The real magic behind a slightly smaller design is its versatility. A single steel is 10” x 13.5” — the perfect size for quarter-sheet roasting pans, and small enough that you can move it around without breaking your back. When you combine two steels side by side, the total surface area is greater than any steel on the market, in a format that’s still easy to move around.
And you can place them on different racks, or in different zones of your oven, to provide a heat source both above and below your foods for more intense browning, and even better heat buffering. It’s a trick used in professional kitchens to get crispier crusts and reliable oven sears.
We were inspired by the steels and stones already on the market, but we noted a few big flaws. Ceramic stones are notorious for cracking and breaking in your oven, either from temperature shock, or an accidental bump. And stone and ceramic materials do a poor job of transferring heat to the foods in contact with it.
The Misen Oven Steel is indestructible, and its A36 carbon steel provides an unparalleled degree of heat transfer, for crispier crusts and faster browning.
While designed for the oven, the Misen Oven Steel is also a perfect addition to your grilling toolkit. Place it directly on the grates to achieve blistered crusts on patio pizzas , or as a flat-top griddle for mess-free burgers, bacon, eggs, and more. Its indestructibility and great heat retention means it gets screaming hot over gas or charcoal, for great searing and charring.
The Misen Oven Steel is a gamechanger for the home cook. It doesn’t improve a single style or method of oven cooking — it improves all of them. So if you braise a pot roast for dinner, then bake a pie for dessert, your oven steel will get you more consistent heating and a better end result for both.
We began by testing materials, thickness, and size over several months to perfect the oven steel. We conducted oven calibration tests, considered every type of steel for optimizing its thermal mass, and scrutinized countless recipes to ensure that our oven steel genuinely improves your cooking. We settled on 6 millimeters of A36 steel, for a high degree of thermal mass per square inch, and a smaller size that can be configured as multiples, making them easier to handle, and more versatile.
The result is an oven steel that offers manageable weight, that browns better, and makes your oven more precise. Tooling is complete, and we’re ready to go into production. We just need your help to make it happen!
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