30 DAYS OPEN PURCHASEThere's a reason restaurant kitchens put chicken, ribs and roasted vegetables on a rack over a tray instead of directly on the tray. Air circulates around the food from every side, the fat drips down instead of the food sitting and stewing in it, and the underside gets as crisp as the top. This is the same solution for the home kitchen: Nordic Ware's aluminium half sheet with a rack that fits it perfectly.
The sheet is made of pure, uncoated aluminium that conducts heat evenly, with a rim reinforced with galvanised steel that stops it warping in the oven. The rack is made of non-stick coated steel and stands on small feet that lift the food off the bottom of the sheet. Use them together for chicken, pork belly, bacon, meatballs, oven chips and roasted vegetables, or separately: the sheet for biscuits and bread and the rack as a cooling rack when the biscuits come out of the oven.
The size is half an American bakery sheet, big enough for a whole sheet-pan dinner while still right for a standard oven. The sheet has no coating that can wear, and over time it develops a duller patina. Remove the plastic covers from the rack's feet before using it in the oven for the first time.
Nordic Ware is the family business from Minneapolis that has been making bakeware since 1946, and the sheets in the Naturals range are still made in the USA.
Uncoated aluminium half sheet with galvanised steel reinforced rim and non-stick coated steel rack. Sheet outside approx. 45.5 x 33 cm. The sheet is oven safe up to 260 degrees, the rack up to 200 degrees. Wash by hand. The sheet is made in the USA, the rack is imported.
