BAKKENMASTER 18-Piece Carbon Steel Baking Set

What the maker puts in writing

• “COMPLETE BAKEWARE SET: This 18-piece BAKKEN kitchen oven baking set includes everything you need for versatile baking, from cakes to muffins, cookies to pizza.”
• “PREMIUM QUALITY CONSTRUCTION: Crafted from commercial-grade carbon steel, this bakeware set ensures even heat distribution for consistent baking results every time.”
• “NONSTICK GRAY MARBLE COATING: The deluxe nonstick gray marble coating, both inside and outside, ensures easy release of baked goods and hassle-free cleaning.”
• “Convenient Silicone Handles: Equipped with gray silicone handles, these baking pans offer a comfortable grip and stay cool to the touch, providing safety and convenience while handling hot pans.”
• “DURABLE AND VERSATILE: …this bakeware set is suitable for use in the oven, refrigerator, and freezer, making it perfect for a wide range of baking needs.”
• From the name: “18-Piece”, “Dishwasher Safe”, “PFOA-Free”
• Reference BKBSGRYMAR18 · Catalog: no weight, no dimensions

Eighteen pieces, and not one of them named

“This 18-piece BAKKEN kitchen oven baking set includes everything you need for versatile baking, from cakes to muffins, cookies to pizza.”

Eighteen pieces, four categories of baking, and no list.

It is the only set on this shelf that publishes nothing at all about its contents.

Moss & Stone 5-piece, $23.99 — names six things: “a baking pan (springform cake pan), round pan, rectangle loaf pan, square oven pan, 6-cup muffin pan, and red oven glove” NutriChef 6-piece, $36.99 — names five categories for six pieces: “a roasting pan, muffin pans, baking sheet, rack, and perforated baking sheet”, with one plural

Neither is a clean itemized count, and both are better than none.

What the four named categories imply. Cakes — a round tin, probably two, possibly a springform. Muffins — a muffin pan, which is one piece and twelve cups. Cookies — a flat baking sheet. Pizza — a round pizza pan, and this maker sells a perforated one separately on this shelf at $15.99, with its dimensions published to the hundredth of an inch.

How eighteen is reached is anyone’s guess. Sets at this count usually get there by including lids, silicone accessories or a glove — and the Moss & Stone set’s red oven glove is its sixth item, which shows how the arithmetic works.

At $3.22 a piece this is the cheapest per piece on this shelf. The Moss & Stone set is $4.80 a piece and the NutriChef set $6.17.

And it is also the only one where you are buying from the photograph. No piece names, no dimensions, no weights — so no way to know whether the cake tins are 7 inch or 9, whether the baking sheet fits your oven, or whether the pizza pan is 12 inches or 13.

Which matters more here than on the other two sets, because of what they publish and this does not.

No stacking claim. Both other sets make one. The NutriChef at $36.99: “The stackable design is perfect for maximizing space in smaller kitchens”, and again, “saves space in your kitchen cabinets”. The Moss & Stone at $23.99: “we designed them to be stackable for easy storage, allowing you to save cabinet space.”

On eighteen pieces that is the claim you most want. Eighteen tins that do not nest is a cupboard.

Silicone handles that stay cooler, which two items here publish

“Equipped with gray silicone handles, these baking pans offer a comfortable grip and stay cool to the touch”

The other is the Emporio Kitchen at $15.43: “a wide, oversized handle wrapped in silicone… makes transferring hot pizza in and out of the oven safer and more comfortable—no mitt fumbles here.”

Why it matters. A baking tin’s normal grip is a rolled rim, and in oven mitts you have no finger precision — a mitt grips by friction and pressure, and a thin lip gives neither.

Silicone is the one material that solves it, because it conducts heat poorly enough to be held and tolerates the oven.

“Stay cool to the touch” is the claim to qualify. Silicone does not stay cool. It stays cooler — it conducts far worse than steel, so it reaches your hand’s tolerance later. After a long bake at 400 °F a silicone handle is warm to hot rather than untouchable.

And what is not published is the silicone’s temperature rating. Food-grade silicone is generally serviceable to around 430 °F (220 °C) — which is in the same region as the 450 °F ceiling four items on this shelf publish, and worth knowing about the part you will be holding. Neither silicone page gives a figure.

How the rest of the shelf handles handling.

Both GoodCook pizza pans at $18.99 and $25.19 — feet: “to keep the hot pan elevated and off the countertop, preventing heat damage” Ritual Life stone, $36.95 — handles plus a detachable carrying tray, on 7.5 lb (3.4 kg) of stone Emile Henry stone, $109.95 — “Handles make it easy to use and carry” Moss & Stone set, $23.99 — a red oven glove, the only protective equipment on this shelf Unicook stone, $33.99 — nothing at all: 6.5 lb (2.95 kg) rated to 1450 °F with no handles

So handling is the gap across this whole shelf, and this is one of four items that addresses it.

Coated inside and out, and rated for the freezer

“The deluxe nonstick gray marble coating, both inside and outside, ensures easy release of baked goods and hassle-free cleaning” · “suitable for use in the oven, refrigerator, and freezer”

Two claims, and both are unusual on this shelf.

“Inside and outside” is made by two items here: this, and the Emporio Kitchen at $15.43 (“Both inside and out, these pizza pans is coated with a durable non-stick layer”).

Which matters because the outside of a tin is what the oven bakes onto. An uncoated exterior collects a brown film that never comes off — and on an eighteen-piece set stored in a stack, the outside of each tin is what touches the inside of the next.

The freezer claim is unique on this shelf, and it is a real statement rather than a flourish.

Oven, refrigerator and freezer is a thermal range of roughly 450 °F down to 0 °F — and what it is asserting is that the coating does not craze and the steel does not distort across it.

Which is the practical use case nobody else here names: bake it, cool it, freeze it in the same tin. A tray bake frozen in its pan, a loaf frozen in its tin, cookie dough chilled in a sheet.

The caution the page does not give. Thermal shock is the thing that crazes a coating and warps a thin sheet — and the freezer-to-oven direction is the harsh one. A tin out of the freezer into a hot oven is a 450-degree swing in minutes. Let it sit out first.

And the coating is described and not analyzed. “Nonstick gray marble” is a ceramic or sol-gel film — which is what “marble” and “stone” coatings on this shelf are, as against the PTFE the Moss & Stone set at $23.99 names outright.

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 physically damaged.

PFOA-free, which says nothing about PTFE

The claim is in the product name and no bullet mentions chemistry at all.

And this maker’s own other product on this shelf publishes the full version. The BAKKENMASTER pizza pan at $15.99: “these trays are dishwasher-safe and free from harmful chemicals like PFOA, PFOS, and PTFE.”

Why the difference is the whole difference.

PTFE — sold as Teflon — is the standard non-stick film on bakeware. A coating free of PTFE is a ceramic or sol-gel film instead. PFOA is a per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance historically used as a processing aid in making PTFE, and phased out of that use years ago. So “PFOA-free” is a statement about a process rather than about the coating on the pan. PFOS is another member of the same family.

The shelf, on chemistry:

PFOA, PFOS, PTFE and BPA free — the NutriChef set at $36.99, the fullest claim here PFOA, PFOS and PTFE free — the Bakken-Swiss at $12.59, the Emporio Kitchen at $15.43, the BAKKENMASTER pizza pan at $15.99 “PFOA-Free” alone — this “Nonstick” 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: “Carbon Steel Non-Stick PTFE Coating”

So one item here declares a fluoropolymer, four declare its absence, and this one addresses a phased-out processing aid.

What the page does say about the coating is “deluxe nonstick gray marble” — and a marble coating is a ceramic one, which almost certainly means it is PTFE-free and the page has simply not said so.

An inference, not a statement — and the maker’s own pizza pan proves it knows how to make the statement.

Commercial-grade carbon steel, with no thickness and no temperature

“Crafted from commercial-grade carbon steel, this bakeware set ensures even heat distribution for consistent baking results every time”

“Commercial-grade” is the strongest adjective on this shelf and it is not a number.

The shelf’s vocabulary for the same thing: “high-quality” on the Bakken-Swiss at $12.59 · “premium-grade” on both GoodCook pans · “heavy-duty” on the Moss & Stone set at $23.99 · “thick” on the NutriChef set at $36.99 · “high-quality” again on the BAKKENMASTER pizza pan at $15.99.

Six adjectives, and one number on the whole shelf.

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 only published figure here is a modest one being used as a durability claim.

What warping actually is, since it is this shelf’s favorite promise. A thin sheet heats unevenly, the hot part expands against the cool part, and past the yield point the metal takes a permanent set. Once a tray rocks, batter runs to one end and a tray bake comes out wedge-shaped.

The two causes are thinness and thermal shock — and this page claims the freezer, which is the shock case.

No weight is published either. This and the Moss & Stone set at $23.99 are the only two items on this shelf with no catalog weight at all. Which on an eighteen-piece set is the figure that would have told you something about the gauge by proxy.

For reference the rest of the shelf runs from 14.4 oz (408 g) (the Breville) to 7.5 lb (3.4 kg) (the Ritual Life stone), with the NutriChef six-piece set at 3.4 lb (1.54 kg) — about 9 oz a piece.

And no temperature limit. Four items on this shelf publish one, and it is the same figure every time: 450 °F (230 °C) — the Emporio Kitchen at $15.43, the BAKKENMASTER pizza pan at $15.99 from this same maker, the Moss & Stone set at $23.99, the NutriChef set at $36.99.

Five publish nothing, this included.

Why 450 °F is the number to notice. Almost all baking is below it — a cake at 350 °F, cookies at 400 to 425, bread at 425 to 450 — but most home pizza recipes call for 475 to 550 °F, and bullet one names pizza.

The rating protects the coating rather than the steel: a non-stick film degrades above its rated range, and carbon steel does not care at these temperatures. Treat 450 °F as the ceiling here whether or not the page says so — and note that the maker’s own pizza pan publishes exactly that figure.

Which puts the three stones on this shelf in another world. 1,450 °F on the Unicook at $33.99 · 1500 °F on the Ritual Life at $36.95 · 900 °F on a grill and under the broiler on the Emile Henry at $109.95. A thousand degrees of difference, because a stone has no coating to lose.

What is not published

The piece list, as above — eighteen pieces and no inventory.

Piece dimensions, as above — and no set on this shelf publishes one for any piece.

No weight, as above.

No temperature limit, as above.

No stacking claim, where both other sets make one — and on eighteen pieces it is the claim you most want.

No chemistry beyond PFOA, as above.

No silicone temperature rating, as above — on the parts you hold.

No dishwasher caveat. The claim is in the product name, and the caveat the three stones supply is worth importing: a dishwasher cycle is hot, alkaline and abrasive, and a coating is what it wears over hundreds of cycles. Hand washing lasts longer. At least two of the fourteen stones here forbid soap entirely: the Unicook at $33.99 (“Do not use detergent”) and the Ritual Life at $36.95 (“no soap needed”), because a porous stone absorbs it. The Emile Henry at $109.95 is the exception: “Dishwasher safe or hand wash with soap and water.”

No metal-utensil guidance, which nothing on this shelf gives — and on an eighteen-piece coated set that will be cut in, scraped and stacked, one cut in a non-stick film propagates from that point. A sheet of kitchen paper between nested coated pans is the cheapest insurance there is.

No warranty. Two items on this shelf publish one: the Emile Henry at $109.95 — a 10 year Guarantee, and the only one here whose terms are 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 5-piece set at $23.99 (“1-year warranty”). The Ritual Life at $36.95 offers support rather than a term. Nine publish nothing.

On an eighteen-piece set that is the omission with the most pieces behind it. Eighteen coated items and no term on any of them.

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

Availability

Read on the day this page was built: $58 at the American Amazon shop.

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