Yes, we sure do! We ship from our factory in Sydney, Australia.
Once your order ships, you will receive an email with the tracking details. Shipping time frames vary based on location and distance from Sydney. We use Australia Parcel Post for most deliveries, rather than a courier, to keep costs down for our customers.*
Please do contact our team via email info@solidteknics.com if you are concerned.
We ship worldwide from our online store (with a few exceptions). Shipping will be calculated at checkout when you enter your country. Please note, all import customs taxes/duties are the responsibility of the customer. Some countries such as the EU and UK are known to have high import duties/taxes.
Please contact your local customs office for help on calculating if tax is payable.
We have a few regions contact sites listed below, otherwise search import duties and tax estimate for your country.
UK - https://www.gov.uk/goods-sent-from-abroad/tax-and-duty
EU - https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/buying-goods-online-coming-non-european-union-country_en
Canada - https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/travel-voyage/dte-acl/est-cal-eng.html
Singapore - https://www.customs.gov.sg/businesses/valuation-duties-taxes-and-fees/duties-and-dutiable-goods
NZ - https://www.customs.govt.nz/personal/duty-and-gst/whats-my-duty-estimator/
US - https://www.trade.gov/import-tariffs-fees-overview-and-resources
Yes we ship worldwide from our online store (with a few exceptions) and shipping will be calculated at checkout, once volume can be determined once you;ve built your order and entered in your country.
If you live outside of Australia, please note, all import customs taxes/duties are the responsibility of the customer. Some countries such as the EU and UK are known to have high import duties/taxes.
Please contact your local customs office for help on calculating if tax is payable.
We have a few regions contact sites listed below, otherwise search import duties and tax estimate for your country.
UK - https://www.gov.uk/goods-sent-from-abroad/tax-and-duty
EU - https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/buying-goods-online-coming-non-european-union-country_en
Canada - https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/travel-voyage/dte-acl/est-cal-eng.html
Singapore - https://www.customs.gov.sg/businesses/valuation-duties-taxes-and-fees/duties-and-dutiable-goods
NZ - https://www.customs.govt.nz/personal/duty-and-gst/whats-my-duty-estimator/
US - https://www.trade.gov/import-tariffs-fees-overview-and-resources
We sure are! We are Australian owned, and our cookware is manufactured in Sydney. In fact, we are proudly the only production cookware still made in Australia!
Just like old cast iron, you season our AUS-ION™ pans to create your own natural, healthy, forever renewable non-stick. Seasoned iron is the only known natural, non-toxic, non-stick cooking surface. A healthy cooking surface that cannot be scratched, gets better with cooking and time, and will never need to be replaced!
However we've just launched our Quenched™ finish which means we've lightened the seasoning load and done the initial oven seasoning for you, this link explains more https://www.solidteknics.com/ironcarequenched
For seasoning instructions, visit HERE.
AUS-ION™ is made from clean Australian iron. Just like old cast iron, you season AUS-ION™ to build and maintain your own healthy, naturally non-stick surface. AUS-ION™ is perfect for everyday oil/fat-based frying, grilling, roasting, stir-frying etc. Whilst you can cook anything at all in our AUS-ION™, acidic foods and liquids can erode the seasoning. Though the beauty of seasoned iron is it's forever renewable! Our nöni™ range is made from ferritic, non-nickel stainless steel. nöni™ is very low maintenance as it does not require seasoning - cooks like iron, cleans like stainless! Like all stainless, nöni™ is not considered 'non-stick' though can work well with the right balance of heat and fat. nöni™ is ideal for all liquid boiling, slow cooking, acidic sauces, and is very low maintenance. AUS-ION™ and nöni™ are designed to complement each other to cover all of your cooking needs. LEARN MORE
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Want to buy your first piece of Solidteknics cookware, but not sure where to start or which pan is the right one for you? Some key things to consider are:
Follow the below steps to help you decide which Solid pan (material, style and size) is the perfect one to suit your individual needs.
Learn about our cookware ranges. There are so many benefits to both our iron and stainless steel ranges. We recommend reading more about our AUS-ION™ and nöni™ to get an idea of what each one is, and what cooking styles they are best suited for.
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Just remember: There are no hard and fast rules. Ultimately, both our AUS-ION™ and our nöni™ cookware can be used for any food, and over time you'll determine for yourself what works best for you.
What do you like to cook? Are you usually frying up meats and veggies, or do you mainly cook sauces and liquids, and boil pasta and rice?
AUS-ION™ is ideal for your everyday frying, baking, and roasting needs - think eggs, pancakes, baking bread, fried rice, frittatas, etc.
nöni™ is ideal for wet and acidic cooking - think rice, pasta, steamed/boiled veggies, sauces, curries, etc. It’s also good for baking.
What cookware do you currently own? Are there any specific pieces that you want to replace, or are there any gaps you are looking to fill in your current cookware collection? What size of cookware do you find yourself reaching for most often?
If you are wanting to replace your old non-stick pan for a new everyday workhorse frypan, then our AUS-ION™/nöni™ 26cm Frypans will be perfect for 2-4 people, and our 30cm/31cm for 4+ people.
If you already have frypans and saucepans, but are wanting something you can stir fry and deep fry in, then one of our Woks may be what you are looking for.
How many people are you cooking for? Is it just you and a partner, or are you cooking for a small army? Do you like to cook in large batches for meal prepping, or do you enjoy cooking just enough for a new meal each night?
If you just want a small pan that you can fry a couple of eggs or pancakes on in the mornings, then our AUS-ION™ 24cm Crepe Pan or our AUS-ION™/nöni™ 22cm Sauteuse would be great choices.
If you're cooking meals for a family of 6 every week, then our nöni™ 6L Rondeau Set may be what you’re after.
What is your budget? Equivalent pans are often a bit cheaper in our AUS-ION™ range, as nöni™ costs more to produce.
For example, our AUS-ION™ 26cm Frypan retails for $179.95, while our nöni™ 26cm Frypan retails for $249. This is important to factor in when determining the best Solid pan for you.
If you’re just starting out, here are some basic cookware pieces ideal for any kitchen. They’re our most popular sizes, used by both professionals and home cooks:
Workhorse Saucepans = nöni™ 2.5L & 4.5L saucepans with skillet-lids.
Dual Handle Pots = nöni™ 6L Rondeau with 33cm Skillet Lid – great for soups, stock, pasta, slow cooking, sauces and big batch cooking.
Our lids are unique - each skillet-lid alone is a high-performance shallow skillet, crepe pan, baking tray, or griddle for all kinds of frying and grilling.
Workhorse Frypans = AUS-ION™ 22cm, 26cm & 30cm frypans. A frypan has sloped sides that taper in at the bottom, and can be used for anything from eggs, omelettes, meat, frittatas, pancakes, pies, even cakes. These pans conduct magnificently and will get you that perfect steak sear! We also have frypans available in our nöni™ range, if your style of cooking is mostly wet, saucy and/or acidic.
Woks = AUS-ION™ 30cm Wok - for all your stir-frying and deep-frying needs. Other sizes are also available.
Whatever your cooking needs, we have a pan for you! SHOP OUR FULL RANGE
We know you're probably thinking... "isn't wrought iron is extinct?" The nostalgic old puddled and hand-wrought form popular a century ago for gates and railings, etc. is extinct. However this is much better, new iron. Clean Australian iron, machine wrought (worked) into final seamless pan shape from flat. Wrought iron, modernised, optimised and revolutionised for a new era in cookware. Cast iron, on the other hand, is melted down (and often mixed with other metals) and then poured into a mould. AUS-ION™ is half the weight and even more durable than cast iron as it can not crack if dropped. AUS-ION™ also has a higher iron content (yes, really) and is, therefore, more conductive. Furthermore, AUS-ION™ has the optimal thermal mass for cooking plus very fast heating, with much less energy input than cast iron. Despite being considerably lighter than cast iron, AUS-ION™ retains plenty of thermal mass to take even the biggest steaks without losing temperature!
Both ranges AUS-ION™ and nöni™ are made from a single monobloc sheet with no rivets, joins or welds. There are no synthetic coatings or clad layers of any kind (and there never will be). Our AUS-ION™ is made from clean, locally sourced Australian iron sheet, the thickness of iron will depend on the piece, our woks and Lightning series are made using a 2.5mm thick steel, our everyday workhorse pans are made from a 3mm steel and our heavy-duty BIG pans are made using 4mm steel. Our nöni™ range is made from ferritic, non-nickel, stainless steel that is custom made for us in Germany. Yes, there is chromium in our nöni™ range, like all stainless, but the key is we have no Nickel in our stainless, and that's the potential problem element, in our research. All our pans are perfect for gas, induction, or any heat source. In short, our stainless pans are called, in full, 'CoSSNoNi', for 'Conductive Seamless Stainless Non-Nickel' ('nöni' for short!). Our nöni™ pans are formed into shape from one solid sheet of 3mm ferritic non-Nickel stainless steel (only very tiny trace amounts of Nickel: 0.6% maximum), which is nearly twice as conductive as regular Nickel-based stainless steels (eg. '18-10 stainless' means 18% Chromium and 10% Nickel).
We're here to make innovative, multi-century durable cookware, here in Sydney, Australia. As you can imagine, this costs a fair bit more than importing cheap pans from overseas. Why? Because employing local people, making healthy products, and saving countless imported, disposable pans from ending up in landfill is what's most important to us. Better for our health, our local economy and our planet. If our cookware isn't right for you at this time, then that's all good!
Yes, we do manufacture in both Australia and the USA. This helps lower our carbon footprint and allows us to access and support local material, labour and resources. All products on this site are Australian-made, and you can find our US-made products over on our American website. Although we endeavour to produce products with the same specifications across both factories, the factories are not equipped with the same machinery, which may result in some differentiation. Although the products may differ slightly, the level of performance will be exactly the same.
All AUS-ION™ (iron) and nöni™ (ferritic stainless steel) cookware is suitable for induction and can be used across any heat source in both professional and home kitchens. Our pans are so tough, you can take them camping or use them in pizza or charcoal ovens! Our lids are unique in that each skillet-lid is also a high-performance skillet, crepe pan, baking tray, or griddle for all kinds of frying and grilling. N.B. Induction cooktops can put high, almost instantaneous heat. Just as you should never put a hot pan under cold water, you should not expose a cold pan to intense, instantaneous stovetop heat (ovens are fine as the pan heats uniformly). We recommend warming on a lower temperature before turning up the heat, and as our cookware is so conductive, never using anything higher than a medium setting with induction. It's also important to correctly match the size of the burner to the pan.
Common with all good quality iron and steel pans, Solidteknics pans are designed with a carefully engineered concave to compensate for expansion/contraction when heated. LEARN MORE<
Firstly, don't worry! See below for advice for AUS-ION™ cookware:
Pitting can be normal in stainless steel cookware, though rest assured, It is still perfectly safe to use. It can occur due to a few different reasons, all of which are variables and something a manufacturer can't control (e.g. the cooking method, minerals in liquids, water pH, etc). The most common culprit of pitting is sodium chloride, which is found in salt. If you add salt to your water before it's boiling, some of the salt will settle to the bottom of the pan, causing pitting to occur.
Our long skillet handles are designed to dissipate heat through the vented neck gaps, making them fine to handle during normal stovetop cooking. However, the handle will get hot if you put your pan in the oven! Get in the habit of throwing an oven-mitt or tea towel over the handle if you've just removed your pan from the oven.
Some of our pans have a matching skillet-lid. Our lids are unique in that they are high-performance skillets/pans/griddles in their own right. For our pans that don't have a matching skillet-lid, they are made to be standard size so you should be able to find a lid either in your kitchen, online, or from a good kitchenware store to fit.
Below is an example of how we measure each dimension of our Solidteknics pans.
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Any utensil you like! Unlike synthetic non-stick coatings, you can use any utensil with our cookware - including metal! Have you tried our TSS utensil yet (designed for use with our pans)? You can find those HERE.
AUS-ION™ wrought iron (mild or very low-carbon steel) is made using clean Australian iron sheet, and our nöni™ range is made from premium non-nickel, ferritic steel that's custom made for us Germany (unfortunately no stainless steel is made in Australia).
There is no difference between our pans and other iron pans in terms of iron migration. Iron pans all transfer similar amounts of iron under similar conditions. We’re not biochemists, but there have been quite detailed studies that show that well-seasoned iron leaches almost no iron into food, and the small amount that does leach causes no harm to the body. Cooking acidic sauces in bare iron does leach more iron, but that would rarely happen, and would never happen if following our seasoning instructions. That's also one reason we developed our nöni™ non-nickel stainless range - for the types of cooking that aren't so well suited to iron cookware (eg. boiling liquids, acidic and/or slow simmering foods). We recommend further research for anyone who is in need of iron supplementation or looking to avoid it.
For best results, please visit our AUS-ION™ cleaning and care page HERE
For best results, please visit our nöni™ cleaning and care page HERE
For best results cooking delicate foods like eggs, bacon, fish and pancakes in iron cookware, keep your heat low. For a lot more cooking tips and tricks, click HERE
Iron is susceptible to corrosion if not seasoned or cared for properly. But don't worry, it's an easy fix! To find out how, click HERE.
If you have a claim, please refer to our warranty page and/or contact our customer service team via our contact form HERE
Solidteknics is built on community, which is why we launch all of our new cookware innovations through Kickstarter. Kickstarter is not a store, but a platform where our community can support our creative process. This gives our supporters the chance to secure limited, first-edition pieces at discounted pricing, and enables us to keep manufacturing in Australia by securing funds to support large, expensive production runs.
We launched the initial Lightning series in 2020 in response to the difficult times we were all faced with due to the global Covid-19 pandemic. Our Lightning pans were designed to be no-frills, maximum value. By eliminating every non-essential cost and cutting our margins to the bone, we were able to significantly reduce the price, without compromising on the durability or the performance of the pan.
All of our pans are designed to fit in standard 600mm ovens, however, internal dimensions of ovens can vary significantly between brands. Our full product dimensions and specifications are provided in our product listings, and we always recommend measuring your oven first. In saying that, there is a handy trick! Try spinning your pan around, so the handle is facing a back corner. This often creates enough space to enable you to shut the oven door.
Our nöni™ 31cm Sauteuse in a standard 600mm oven. The oven door will not shut if the handle is sticking outwards, though spin it around so the handle is in the back corner and it fits perfectly!
Our frypans are specially engineered with long, ergonomically-designed, vented handles. We do find that it's more natural and comfortable to hold our long pan handles from the top, resting your arm along the top of the handle, rather than holding it from underneath like you would with cheap plastic-handled pans. It may seem a bit unnatural if you're used to holding light, disposable cookware, so this method of holding your pan can take a bit of time to get used to. Though, once you do it a few times, it will become second nature!
Once your order ships, you will receive an email with the tracking details. Shipping time frames vary based on location and distance from Sydney. We use Australia Parcel Post for most deliveries, rather than a courier, to keep costs down for our customers.* Please do contact our team via email info@solidteknics.com if you are concerned
We ship worldwide from our online store (with a few exceptions). Shipping will be calculated at checkout when you enter your country. Please note, all import taxes/duties are the responsibility of the customer. Some countries such as the EU and UK are known to have high import duties/taxes.
Oven burn risk: Take care when handling any hot metal pan, especially when taking from oven, and use oven mitts to protect your hands and trivets to protect surfaces. After removing from an oven we recommend leaving the heat sock, mitt or towel over the handle to remind yourself the handle may still be hot.
For InversionEdge™ FAQs, click HERE.
What makes the TSS special?
In our online store, you may find out of stock products are either 'Notify Me', 'Backorder' or 'Preorder'.
To redeem a gift voucher, you will need to be logged into your account. (If you don't have an account, you can create one HERE.) Then simply add the items you'd like to purchase to your cart, and continue through to checkout. Under 'Payment Details', select 'Redeem Voucher' from the options available. Enter your 'Voucher code' and 'Secret code' under 'Order summary' on the right, then click 'Redeem voucher.'
A new section will then appear on the left under 'Payment details' asking how much of the voucher you wish to apply to the order. The amount that you enter will be deducted from the total owing. Any remaining balance can then be paid through your other payment methods. If there is voucher credit remaining, this will be applied to your account as a credit, for you to use towards your next order.
To get accepted into our Solidteknics Lovers' Facebook group (and subsequently gain access to our Exclusive Lovers' Launches!) you must request to join our group on the Facebook platform and answer the three compulsory questions. If your request hasn't been accepted, it's likely that you didn't answer all the questions (see screenshot below with yellow arrow). We would suggest withdrawing your request and submitting a new request to join, ensuring you scroll down to see all three questions. Facebook doesn't necessarily make the questions easy to see on a mobile device! Once answered, our admin team will approve your request to join. If you're still having issues, please email our team: info@solidteknics.com
Our team is always happy to help! For any queries or concerns, email our team: info@solidteknics.com
*Please note, shipping may take longer than usual at this time, here's a great article covering the full global and local impact of the current pandemic.
No, not at all! They are rounded. The shape of the hexagon design means the fit nicely together in a honeycomb fashion, perfect for small cooktops and in the oven.
Kickstarter exists to help bring creative projects to live. It is not a store. Backers pledge to projects to help them come to life and support a creative process. To thank their backers for their support, project creators offer unique rewards.
It's a platform where Solidteknics supporters can support our creative process to help us bring new innovations to life. Rewards are our chance to share a piece of our project with our backer community - limited & stamped FIRST edition pieces
Everything on Kickstarter must be a project with a clear goal, like our cookware. A project will be live for a set period of time, and once completed, we then move into local production.
Kickstarter is a third party platform for crowdfunding that Solidteknics utilises to bring new innovations to life. This is independent of our online store.
We are proud to do business differently. Our business is built on and with our community. Each product available to purchase on our store has been through the Kickstarter crowdfunding experience - from our very first launch back in 2014 to now. We've launched and funded over 35 Kickstarter projects, delivering every single one of them. Kickstarter allows us to keep manufacturing in Australia viable, and in return, we offer our backers the lowest possible price to say thank you for their support. To hear from our founder, watch this YouTube video.
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