NerdChef Speed Steel - High Performance Pizza Baking Stone | Integrated Backstop & Handles | Heating Fins (13.5" x 14.5" x .90" Thick)

This is an excellent pizza steel. It enabled us to produce an authentic pizza base, similar what can be produced with a good large wood fired pizza oven (see photos). We bought two 0.9 inch pizza steels. This enabled us to place the pizza on the top rack (with element on above) for the first two minutes and then move to a lower rack for a further two minutes. So glad we made this investment, rather than buying the large wood fired pizza oven we were initially planning to install (I worry that if I bought a pizza oven we’d need to eat a lot of pizza to justify the cost - and by doing so we’d put on weight!)

It's heavy (7kg), and that's a good thing.Easy to handle, pick up and transfer in one hand (when cold) because of all the ribs underneath. Well thought design. Functional and looks good.Fits perfectly in the oven and in standard Weber kettle, leaving enough space for the indirect heat zone.Stores tons of heat and produces great crumbs on my breads and pizzas.

I was looking for a pizza stone, I spent a lot of money on my old pizza stone and it smelled chemically... The company said it was impossible. I see reviews for pizza stones where several people have that same experience. No it's not a dirty pizza stone, no I didn't use a chemical to clean it, yes I heated it for a long time and it still stunk. I wonder if some people are just more sensitive to that smell than other people.....Anyway, I finally decided to try something new because I was so worried about that smell and I am so happy with the pizza iron. Not only does it not smell bad, but I think it actually cooks the pizzas much better. I'm very happy.

Mine didn’t come with a backstop. I don’t know what that’s about and it’s heavier than I thought it would be. I plan on leaving it on the bottom shelf of the oven which means I lose one rack unless I can order another one if I had a larger of and it wouldn’t matter but it’s a wall oven and I can’t change it other than that for Pizza’s. The performance is great, and it does stabilize the oven temperature just diminishes the size of it for other items like cooking cookies.

This is constructed very well. Heavy, and made with love. I bought it for my girlfriend because her old one fell on the floor and broke. She had that for 15 years. She was excited when she got it.