From the mechanical engineers who patented the much-loved US-ION™ seamless wrought cookware, this new all-American made Solidteknics US-ION™ Quenched™ skillet is our BIGGEST pan yet!
We love cast iron too, and this new era in wrought cookware has all the benefits of cooking with cast iron … with much less weight. At 4mm in thickness, this iron skillet is machine-wrought into shape (not cast). This wrought iron is more conductive than cast iron, for faster and more even heating, with less energy input (our pans have a higher iron and lower carbon content). US-ION™ is also more durable than cast iron, because it will never crack.
Ready to cook right out of the box, our patent pending Quenched™ pre-seasoning is a serious innovation for iron cookware: smoother than cast iron for better natural non-stick, and more textured than machined cast iron so seasoning doesn’t flake off.
Our seamless one-piece BIGGA skillets are designed with rivetless dual handles for handling the heavy loads.
Perfect for your stove-top, oven, BBQs, outdoor grills, camp cooking, baking, pizza ovens and everyday meals when there are many mouths to feed or BIG steaks to be cooked! This versatile pan can live on your stove top or in your oven, either way it will be used several times a day for all manner of food and cooking from breakfast to dinner.
No matter the job, this BIGGA Skillet is up for the task!
*The above images have been shared with us by Solid cooks using the original Australian-made version of the 35cm (14″) BIGGA Skillet. This pan is already legendary among BBQ competition teams, camp cooks, chefs at woodfired/grill restaurants, and any cook who wants their cookware bigger and better: www.solditeknics.com/testify
Developed by Solidteknics USA, our new Quenched seasoning is a world-first (patents pending). What it means for our cooks is a pan ready to use right out of the box with a durable and hard pre-seasoning – and it’s a seasoning that is easier to maintain than rough cast iron or smooth steel. Revolutionary!
Nothing sears like Quenched seasoned wrought iron!
For a lifetime of tough jobs, you need a tough lifetime+ pan. This is the toughest.
How tough? Wrought from a single sheet of American iron into one seamless, indestructible piece. This malleable wrought iron will never crack like cast iron can.
… all our US-ION pans come with a multi-century warranty, and that’s an easy guarantee to make, when you know how tough these pans are made.
The Solidteknics iron pan is crafted with one piece of American iron, is impossible to break, and cooks and seasons just like cast iron. Best of all, it is much lighter in weight, more conductive, smoother, and simply easier to use.
An unbeatable combination of high performance features and multi-century durability, for pro chefs, home cooks, camp cooks, BBQ heroes, pit masters – anyone who wants high performance, healthy, sustainable, locally-made cookware!
Each new 14″ BIGGA Skillet shipped to our Kickstarter backers will be engraved ‘FIRST EDITION’, and with the month and year of manufacture.
Other already launched pans will be stamped with the month and year of manufacture.
In time your pans will become treasured family heirlooms down through the generations and centuries it will endure.
Our base stamp says it all … and ‘X’ marks the spot!
Solidteknics skillets are a genuine world-first, because we patented a whole new way of working a flat sheet of metal into a complete pan. Not cast, not pressed, but worked (‘wrought’, in the true original meaning) by machine into the final entire solid, seamless, rivetless, 1-piece pan.
Solidteknics wrought 1-piece skillets have been a hit with Australian Chefs since their launch there in 2015, and after shipping container loads of Aussie iron to the USA, we are now funding the manufacture of those skillets under the same patents in Chicago, from USA iron.
It was a long and tough 20+ years development process by mechanical engineer (who cooks), Mark J. Henry, so why did he persist?
Throughout those 2+ decades, Chefs always told Mark, “We are so sick of rivets and joins, and heavy pans. Make a one-piece iron/steel pan that’s as light as our French pans, and we’ll beat a path to your door.” He did … and they did!
It’s a long road. Disposable synthetic non-sticks still dominate the retail shelves…and landfills. We’re driving a growing grassroots movement that rejects disposable and toxic cookware, and changing attitudes. For the sake of future generations, we will continue to push for a reversal in unsustainable consumer habits worldwide.
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Tell them they’re now made in the US, and that these new heirloom, collectible FIRST EDITION US-ION™ pans are only available this once, by pledging here on Kickstarter before the campaign deadline. Also tell them to hurry before the Earlybird deals finish, because they will never be repeated.
Together we’ll make history, not just the world’s finest new breed of seamless wrought iron cookware.
Thank you and happy cooking!!
Mark, Steve, Belinda, and the Solidteknics USA Team
*Patent and Trademark notice:
‘Solidteknics’, ‘Quenched’, ‘US-ION’, ‘AUS-ION’, and ‘nöni’ are trademarks of Solidteknics USA, Inc. (and its parent companies), and reserved for our exclusive use with cookware worldwide. Various innovations in Solidteknics products or product features are protected under utility patents, published and pending. Please do not copy any of our intellectual property.
To be clear: DO NOT COPY SOLIDTEKNICS COOKWARE DESIGNS OR TRADEMARKS!
The key utility features are protected in all our markets of interest. We defend our hard-earned innovations vigorously.
After a long and intensive development period, 22 (twenty-two!) successful Kickstarter campaigns in Australia, eight in the USA, overwhelmingly positive feedback from top chefs, strong retail sales and exports, and many production runs, SOLIDteknics is rapidly becoming established as a major chef equipment brand. Though undeniably very hard work to launch manufacturing in Australia and the USA, on the scale of products and businesses I’ve launched this is certainly at the low risk end. After decades in the chef equipment industry and a long R&D process, I’m very confident the product is the best it can be – in fact, the best in the world – for all the reasons presented in the project detail. If our backers allow us reach our funding goal, the funds will be quickly applied to the tooling and production costs and we will ship on time (barring ‘acts of God’ or crazy ‘left-fielders’!), as promised. We have a long and proven track record of keeping our promises, and fixing any unexpected issues quickly and thoroughly, with mutual respect. Apart from all the engineering experience, it is our amazing strong base of passionate supporters who really ensures our success with each campaign (then ongoing retail and export success). We couldn’t do it without YOU, and we are very grateful for all your support. Thank you all! Mark J. Henry Founder and development engineer SOLIDteknics Pty Ltd