Moss & Stone 5-Piece Carbon Steel Baking Pan Set

What the maker puts in writing

• “Complete 5-piece Baking Set: …including a baking pan (springform cake pan), round pan, rectangle loaf pan, square oven pan, 6-cup muffin pan, and red oven glove.”
• “Oven-Safe Baking Pans: Each baking tray is heat-safe even at high temperatures up to 450F… such as biscuits, chocolate fudge, cheesecake, apple pie, birthday cakes”
• “Stackable Design For Space Saving: …square, rectangle, round-shaped pans, small & large baking pan… we designed them to be stackable for easy storage, allowing you to save cabinet space.”
• “High-quality Nonstick: Our entire baking pan set is made from heavy-duty, carbon steel, BPA-free metal. Each piece’s interior has interlocking nonstick layers designed to deliver long-lasting, eliminating the need for butter, oil, or cooking spray.”
• “Customer Support: Moss & Stone baking sets for kitchen & baking sheets are covered under our 1-year warranty!”
• From the name: “Carbon Steel Non-Stick PTFE Coating”, “With Heat Red Glove”
• Reference CS-BWS-COP5 · Catalog: no weight, no dimensions

The only item on this shelf that states its coating is PTFE

The product name says it: “Carbon Steel Non-Stick PTFE Coating”.

And four items on this shelf state that theirs is not.

Bakken-Swiss, $12.59 — “PFOA, PFOS, and PTFE-free” Emporio Kitchen, $15.43 — “PFOA, PFOS, and PTFE-free” BAKKENMASTER pizza pan, $15.99 — “free from harmful chemicals like PFOA, PFOS, and PTFE” NutriChef set, $36.99 — “PFOA, PFOS, PTFE, and BPA-free”, the only one to add BPA

One publishes the narrower version. The BAKKENMASTER 18-piece set at $57.99: “PFOA-Free” alone, in its title — which says nothing about PTFE.

And three publish no chemistry at all: both GoodCook pans and the Breville at $19.95.

What PTFE is. The polymer sold as Teflon, and the standard non-stick film on bakeware for decades. It is a member of the PFAS family — per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

What it buys over a ceramic coating. It stays slippery.

A ceramic sol-gel film — which is what the “stone” and “marble” coatings elsewhere on this shelf are — loses slipperiness with use. PTFE stays non-stick until it is physically damaged.

Which is why bullet four can make its claim and mean it: “Each piece’s interior has interlocking nonstick layers designed to deliver long-lasting, eliminating the need for butter, oil, or cooking spray.”

What it gives up is scratch resistance — ceramic is harder — and nothing on the temperature. The 450 °F ceiling here is the same figure the ceramic-coated items publish: the Emporio Kitchen at $15.43, the BAKKENMASTER pizza pan at $15.99 and the NutriChef set at $36.99 all say 450 °F (230 °C).

The coating type does not change the number, because the number is what any coating tolerates.

And “BPA-free metal” in bullet four is worth one qualification. BPA is a bisphenol used in some polycarbonate plastics, and its relevance to a steel pan is slight: there is no plastic in a carbon steel baking tin. The NutriChef set at $36.99 makes the same claim.

Five pieces, six things named

The title: “5 Piece Baking Pans Set”. Bullet one names six: a baking pan (springform cake pan), a round pan, a rectangle loaf pan, a square oven pan, a 6-cup muffin pan, and a red oven glove.

Read it as five pans plus a glove — the glove is not a baking pan, and the title says “Baking Pans Set”. Or read “a baking pan (springform cake pan)” as one item rather than two.

Either way the list and the count do not line up cleanly, and this shelf is not good at inventories.

NutriChef 6-piece set, $36.99 — “includes a roasting pan, muffin pans, baking sheet, rack, and perforated baking sheet”: five categories for six pieces, with “muffin pans” in the plural BAKKENMASTER 18-piece set, $57.99 — no list at all: “includes everything you need for versatile baking, from cakes to muffins, cookies to pizza.” Eighteen pieces and not one named.

Three sets on this shelf, and not one publishes a clean itemized count.

What this set gives you, taking the list at face value.

A springform — the only pan on this shelf designed to release a cheesecake, and bullet two names cheesecake A round pan — a cake A rectangle loaf pan — a bread or a meatloaf A square oven pan — a tray bake or brownies A 6-cup muffin pan — twelve muffins over two batches, where the usual domestic pan is twelve cups And a red oven glove — the only piece of protective equipment anywhere on this shelf

That last item is worth noting, because handling is the gap across this whole shelf. Two steel items 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. Both GoodCook pans have feet. And this set gives you a glove instead.

What no page on this shelf publishes is a dimension for any set piece. Not one of the three sets gives a size — so “round pan” could be 7 inches or 9, and that is the difference between two cake recipes.

Nor a weight. This and the BAKKENMASTER 18-piece set are the only two items on this shelf with no catalog weight at all.

Stackable, which is the real argument for a set

“square, rectangle, round-shaped pans, small & large baking pan… we designed them to be stackable for easy storage, allowing you to save cabinet space”

Two of the three sets on this shelf make the same claim. The NutriChef 6-piece at $36.99: “The stackable design is perfect for maximizing space in smaller kitchens”, and again in bullet two: “the stackable design saves space in your kitchen cabinets.”

The BAKKENMASTER 18-piece set at $57.99 does not — on eighteen pieces, which is the set where it would matter most.

Why stacking is not trivial. A baking tin is a tapered box. Pans that nest have walls sloped enough for each to sit inside the next, and the saving is real: five pans that nest take the depth of one plus four wall thicknesses.

The cost is wasted depth in use. A steeply tapered round tin holds less than a straight-sided one of the same rim diameter — which is the trade nobody on this shelf states.

And stacking has a second cost on a coated pan that nobody states either. Pan rims sit on pan interiors. Metal on coating, every time you put them away — which is one of the three things that actually wears a non-stick film, alongside the dishwasher and the metal utensil.

A sheet of kitchen paper between nested coated pans is the cheapest insurance there is, and no page on this shelf suggests it.

Four hundred and fifty degrees, which four items here publish

“Each baking tray is heat-safe even at high temperatures up to 450F”

The published limits on this shelf:

450 °F (230 °C) — this, the Emporio Kitchen at $15.43, the BAKKENMASTER pizza pan at $15.99, the NutriChef set at $36.99 Nothing — the Bakken-Swiss at $12.59, both GoodCook pans, the Breville at $19.95, the BAKKENMASTER 18-piece set at $57.99

Four items, one number — and the coating type does not change it: three of the four are ceramic or marble coatings and this one is PTFE.

What 450 °F covers and does not. Almost all baking. A cake is 350 °F, biscuits 400 to 425, a pie 425, bread 425 to 450. Which matches bullet two’s list exactly: biscuits, fudge, cheesecake, apple pie, birthday cakes.

What it does not cover is pizza at the temperature pizza wants. Most home pizza recipes call for 475 to 550 °F — the top of a domestic oven — and a commercial pizza oven runs 700 to 900 °F.

Which is where the three stones on this shelf sit in another 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.

And this set has no pizza pan in it, which is consistent: it is a cake-and-bread set, and 450 °F is the right ceiling for one.

A one-year warranty, which only one other item here matches

“Moss & Stone baking sets for kitchen & baking sheets are covered under our 1-year warranty!”

Two items on this shelf publish a warranty.

this — one year Emile Henry, $109.95 — a 10 year Guarantee, and the only one on this shelf whose terms are stated: “covers any production fault or quality problem with the product when used in a normal domestic environment, and respecting the care and use Instructions”

One more offers support rather than a term. The Ritual Life stone at $36.95: “please contact us. A member of our team will respond within 24 hours to provide support.”

Nine of the twelve items sold on Amazon.com publish nothing at all.

Why a term matters on coated bakeware specifically. The failure is the coating, and it is gradual.

A non-stick film does not break; it wears — and what wears it is the dishwasher, the metal utensil and the scouring pad.

So a one-year warranty on a coated pan covers manufacture rather than life: a coating that flakes in the first month is a fault; one that dulls in year three is use. Which is exactly what the Emile Henry’s wording acknowledges by tying ten years to “respecting the care and use instructions”.

And this page publishes no care instructions at all.

No dishwasher statement — where seven items on this shelf claim dishwasher safety outright. On a PTFE coating the omission is arguably the honest position, since hand washing a coated pan lasts longer whatever the bullet says.

No metal-utensil guidance, which nothing on this shelf gives — and bullet four’s claim that no fat is needed makes it more pressing, because a pan used without fat is a pan with nothing between the food and the film.

And no cooling instruction. Thermal shock is what warps a thin pan and crazes a coating: let it cool before it meets water. The two stones that publish care instructions both insist on it in their own way — the Unicook at $33.99 says to scrape “after the pizza stone has cooled”, and the Ritual Life at $36.95 adds the counter-intuitive one: “Do not pre-season the stone, as this will cause an odor. The naturally seasoned surface improves with each use.”

What is not published

Piece dimensions, as above — not one size for any of the five pans. No other set on this shelf publishes them either.

No weight. This and the BAKKENMASTER 18-piece set at $57.99 are the only two items sold on Amazon.com with no catalog weight. The rest run from 14.4 oz (the Breville) to 7.5 lb (the Ritual Life stone).

No dishwasher statement, as above.

No muffin-cup capacity. A 6-cup pan is half the usual twelve, and the page does not say what size the cups are — which decides whether standard paper cases fit.

No springform diameter, on the one piece in this set whose whole purpose is a specific recipe.

No steel thickness. One item on this shelf publishes one: the Emporio Kitchen at $15.43 — “0.5mm thick carbon steel”. For scale, heavy-gauge bakeware runs 0.03 to 0.04 inch (0.8 to 1.0 mm) — so the only published figure on this shelf is a modest one being used as a strength claim. “Heavy-duty” here, “premium-grade” on the GoodCook pans and “commercial-grade” on the BAKKENMASTER 18-piece set are the shelf’s vocabulary, and none of them is a number.

No glove rating. An oven glove has a temperature it is good for, and a time at that temperature — and on the only protective item on this shelf, neither is given.

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

Availability

Read on the day this page was built: $23.99 at the American Amazon shop.

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