Bakken-Swiss Crisper Tray and Basket Set

What the maker puts in writing

• “DELICIOUS CRISPY FOOD - achieve perfectly crispy results with our 2-piece crisper tray set, consisting of a durable baking tray and a removable basket. Say goodbye to greasy, fatty foods”
• “DURABLE AND RELIABLE - crafted from high-quality carbon steel and featuring a durable non-stick gray stone coating”
• “EFFORTLESS CLEANING - our crisper tray oven pan is dishwasher safe… such as chicken, homemade potato chips, pizza’s, coated chicken, bacon and more”
• “VERSATILE COOKING - suitable for making chips and even some cookies”
• “SAFETY FIRST - our crisper tray can be used as a pizza crisper pan among other things and is PFOA, PFOS, and PTFE-free”
• From the name: “2-Piece Set – Gray Marble”, “for Healthier Cooking in Regular Ovens”
• Reference BAKCRIPGRY · Catalog: 680 g (24 oz), 350 × 225 × 55 mm (13.8 × 8.86 × 2.17 in)

A basket above a tray, which nothing else on this shelf does

“a 2-piece crisper tray set, consisting of a durable baking tray and a removable basket”

The two designs on this shelf.

A perforated tray has holes and the food sits on the metal: air reaches the underside through the holes, and the parts touching metal conduct heat and brown. Six items here are perforated — the Emporio Kitchen at $15.43, the BAKKENMASTER pizza pan at $15.99, both GoodCook pans at $18.99 and $25.19, the Breville at $19.95, and the perforated sheet in the NutriChef set at $36.99.

A basket sits above the tray, so air circulates underneath the food rather than only through the holes beneath it — and the tray below catches the fat.

Which is why the page frames it as the healthier option: “Say goodbye to greasy, fatty foods.” The fat drains out of the basket instead of sitting under what is cooking in it.

Where each design wins.

A pizza wants contact. A perforated pizza pan touches the dough across most of its area and vents the steam through the holes, which is how you get a browned base rather than a dried one. A chip, a rasher of bacon or a piece of coated chicken wants air. Anything that renders fat or releases a lot of water crisps better suspended than seated.

So this is the one item on this shelf designed for the second job, and the page is honest that pizza is secondary: “can be used as a pizza crisper pan among other things”.

What is not published is the mesh. The gap size in a crisper basket decides what falls through — and chips, which bullet three names, are exactly the food that does. The only hole figure anywhere on this shelf is on the Breville at $19.95: “1/3 inch crisper holes”.

The catalog footprint is 350 × 225 × 55 mm — about 13.8 × 8.9 × 2.2 inches — which is a rectangular tray rather than a round pizza pan, and 55 mm of depth is consistent with a basket sitting inside a tray with a gap below it.

No temperature limit, where four items here publish the same one

The published limits on this shelf:

450 °F (230 °C) — the Emporio Kitchen at $15.43, the BAKKENMASTER pizza pan at $15.99, the Moss & Stone set at $23.99, the NutriChef set at $36.99 Nothing — this, both GoodCook pans, the Breville at $19.95, the BAKKENMASTER 18-piece set at $57.99

Four items, one figure.

Why 450 °F is the number to notice. A commercial pizza oven runs 700 to 900 °F. Most home pizza recipes call for 475 to 550 °F — the highest a domestic oven goes — because a crust needs the floor hot enough to set the base before the top overcooks.

So a coated steel pan rated to 450 °F is rated below the temperature the recipe asks for.

That is not a fault of this tray. It is the limit of a coating. A non-stick film degrades above its rated range; the steel underneath does not care.

Which is where the three stones on this shelf live in a different world.

Unicook, $33.99 — cordierite, “heat-resistant up to 1,450°F (787°C)” Ritual Life, $36.95 — cordierite, “up to 1500°F (815°C)” Emile Henry, $109.95 — “up to 900 degrees F” on gas, charcoal and wood grills, and “Can be used in all types of ovens and under the broiler”

A thousand degrees of difference, because a stone has no coating to lose.

The practical reading for this tray: treat 450 °F as the ceiling whether or not the page says so, and keep it out from under a grill element. For chips and bacon at 400 to 425 °F it is in its proper range, and that is what it is for.

PFOA, PFOS and PTFE free — and one item here says the opposite

“is PFOA, PFOS, and PTFE-free, ensuring your meals are safe and healthy”

The three named.

PTFE — sold as Teflon — is the standard non-stick film on bakeware, and the one that matters here: a coating free of PTFE is a ceramic or sol-gel film instead, which is what “gray stone coating” in bullet two describes. PFOA is a per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance historically used as a processing aid in making PTFE, phased out of that use years ago. PFOS is another member of the same family, used in other applications.

The shelf, on chemistry:

PFOA, PFOS and PTFE free — this, the Emporio Kitchen at $15.43, the BAKKENMASTER pizza pan at $15.99 PFOA, PFOS, PTFE and BPA free — the NutriChef set at $36.99, the only one to add BPA “PFOA-Free” alone, in the title — the BAKKENMASTER 18-piece set at $57.99 “Nonstick coating”, with no chemistry — both GoodCook pans and the Breville at $19.95 And one that states its coating is PTFE — the Moss & Stone 5-piece set at $23.99, whose title reads “Carbon Steel Non-Stick PTFE Coating” and whose bullets add “BPA-free metal”

So one item on this shelf declares a fluoropolymer coating and four declare the absence of one.

What a ceramic coating buys and gives up. No fluoropolymer, and better scratch resistance than a sprayed non-stick. What it gives up is longevity: a ceramic film loses slipperiness with use, where PTFE stays slippery until it is damaged.

And the three stones on this shelf have no coating at all. Bare cordierite or ceramic, which is why they tolerate 1450 °F — and also why two of the three forbid soap: the Unicook at $33.99 says “Do not use detergent” and the Ritual Life at $36.95 says “no soap needed”, because a porous stone absorbs it.

The dishwasher claim here is the straightforward one. “our crisper tray oven pan is dishwasher safe.” Seven items on this shelf claim it. One caveat worth importing from the stones: a dishwasher cycle is hot, alkaline and abrasive, and a coating is what it wears over years. Hand washing a ceramic-coated pan lasts longer, whatever the bullet says.

Carbon steel with a stone coating, and no thickness

“crafted from high-quality carbon steel and featuring a durable non-stick gray stone coating… designed for long-lasting performance”

One item on this shelf publishes a steel thickness. The Emporio Kitchen at $15.43: “Built with 0.5mm thick carbon steel… delivers even heating and serious strength that resists warping over time.”

And 0.5 mm is at the thin end. Heavy-gauge bakeware runs 0.8 to 1.0 mm, so the one published figure on this shelf is a modest one being used as a durability claim.

Nobody else gives a number — including this page, the two GoodCook pans (“premium-grade construction that resists warping”), the BAKKENMASTER pizza pan at $15.99 (“sturdy construction… Say goodbye to warping”) and the BAKKENMASTER 18-piece set at $57.99 (“commercial-grade carbon steel”).

Four pages promising against warping, and one thickness between them.

What warping actually is, since it is the shelf’s favorite promise. A thin sheet heats unevenly, the hot part expands against the cool part, and past the yield point it takes a permanent set. Once a tray rocks, fat runs to one end — and on a crisper that is the difference between even browning and a greasy corner.

The two causes are thinness and thermal shock. No page here publishes a thickness, and the shock is in your hands: let a hot tray cool before it meets water.

At 680 grams this is mid-shelf among the steel. Breville 408 g (the lightest item here) · BAKKENMASTER pizza pan 621 g for two · this 680 g · GoodCook 16-inch 680 g · Emporio Kitchen 1,085 g for two · GoodCook set 1,247 g for two · NutriChef set 1,538 g for six pieces.

And then the stones. Unicook 2,950 g · Emile Henry 3,311 g · Ritual Life 3,402 g. The heaviest item on this shelf is 8.3 times the lightest — and that mass is the whole point of a stone: thermal ballast that does not drop in temperature when cold dough lands on it.

What is not published

No temperature limit, as above.

No mesh or hole size, as above — and on a crisper that is the specification. The Breville at $19.95 is the only item on this shelf to publish one: “1/3 inch crisper holes”.

No steel thickness, as above.

No handles. Two steel items on this shelf publish silicone handles: the Emporio Kitchen at $15.43 (“a wide, oversized handle wrapped in silicone… no mitt fumbles”) and the BAKKENMASTER 18-piece set at $57.99 (“gray silicone handles… stay cool to the touch”). Two stones have handles: the Ritual Life at $36.95 (plus a detachable carrying tray) and the Emile Henry at $109.95 (“Handles make it easy to use and carry”).

On a two-piece set the question is sharper than usual: a hot basket has to come out of a hot tray, and the page does not say what you lift it by.

No feet. Both GoodCook pans publish them: “the bottom of the round oven pan also has feet to keep the hot pan elevated and off the countertop, preventing heat damage.” On a tray that catches rendered fat, feet are the thing that stops it marking a countertop.

No basket depth or gap, which is what decides how much fat the tray below can hold before it reaches the food.

No warranty. Two items on this shelf publish one: the Emile Henry at $109.95 — a 10 year Guarantee, with its terms stated: “covers any production fault or quality problem… when used in a normal domestic environment, and respecting the care and use instructions” — and the Moss & Stone set at $23.99 (“1-year warranty”). The Ritual Life at $36.95 offers support rather than a term: “A member of our team will respond within 24 hours.” Nine publish nothing.

No country of manufacture, which no item on this shelf publishes.

Availability

Read on the day this page was built: $13 at the American Amazon shop.

Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.