Baking Steel - DIY ideas?

[thvigil11]

Neato!

[Aloha_Shooter]

Wow, that's nice. If I'd known about that, I'd have been tempted to ask you if I could add to your order. I wonder if there's any place closer to the Springs to get something like that done.

[Not_A_Llama]

Might have another batch made. Let's see if anyone else might be interested. Possibly overcommitted on my first batch to share with friends...

:-X

I mean, I imagine Springs has manufacturing and industry, so a local steel supplier seems likely to me.

[fly boy]

Might have another batch made. Let's see if anyone else might be interested. Possibly overcommitted on my first batch to share with friends...

:-X

I mean, I imagine Springs has manufacturing and industry, so a local steel supplier seems likely to me.

What size did you end up going with? What is the weight of one of the plates? Have you tried to cook other things with it?

I might be interested, but I would have to pick it up at a much later date.... shipping to Cheyenne or TX would be too much.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Resurrecting this thread after I came across this article:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt...lian-style-pie

I usually find NPR to be fairly worthless but there are no liberal or conservative politics when it comes to baking good pizza ...

[BPTactical]

I used to use a chunk of 1/4" stainless plate to warm up pizza for lunch at a fabrication shop I worked at years ago.
A couple minutes of oxy-acy torch action on the underneath, toss the pizza on and a couple minutes later toasty warm.

[SideShow Bob]

I used to use a chunk of 1/4" stainless plate to warm up pizza for lunch at a fabrication shop I worked at years ago.
A couple minutes of oxy-acy torch action on the underneath, toss the pizza on and a couple minutes later toasty warm.

Just make sure you don’t put your pizza on the sooty side..........

[Grant H.]

If you need good steel at a better price and not a feeling of being cattle try Altitude Steel. They are down on 13th and great. Much better service and prices. To be clear: I don't work there or have any personal interest past helping a good company.

They can do some processing of steel, but most of the custom stuff gets farmed out to Dencol.

Dencol is hard to beat for having parts cut. For raw materials, Altitude is a WAY better deal.

[Grant H.]

DenCol Steel, Warehouse 3... they had the order ready on Monday morning, after I gave the OK on Friday afternoon. Alas, I was out of town.


Plasma cutting was definitely the right choice. Super glassy-smooth edges and corners. Very much worth the $5/plate.

They do simpler orders as you wait, and ask for a day for something like you wanted. The two shears in the picture (grey on left, green on right) chop 1/2" 4x8 sheets of steel without even pausing.

You probably ought to consider removing all the mill scale. Muriatic acid and a rubbermaid tub will do this very quickly.

That's not plasma. That's definitely their laser cutter.

You wanted laser, not plasma. Plasma would have had more kerf and would have been a little more ragged.

The pizza looks good! Might have to make one.

[Not_A_Llama]

Sorry, been sporadic on the forums, so just saw people posting here.

If they cut it with laser, they upgraded me for free, twice. I was told laser would be much more expensive.

Mill scale is pretty biologically inactive, and the seasoning keeps the food away in any case. I’ll play with removing it sometime, but so far haven’t found reason to care.

People have been enjoying their steels for a couple years now. Guess I’ll get another batch going.