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Are you Australian Owned AND made?
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!
For seasoning instructions, visit here.
AUS-ION™ is made from clean Australian iron. Just like old cast iron, you season AUS-ION™ to build your own healthy, natural non stick surface. AUS-ION™ is perfect for everyday oil/fat-based frying, grilling, roasting, stirfrying 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
Suggested cookware shopping list
We've put together some great SETS to get started - HERE
AUS-ION™ vs nöni™ - Which should I use?
There are no hard and fast rules. Over time you'll determine for yourself what works best for you, given either pan can be used for any food. Here is a summary on how you could discern which range to use for what.
AUS-ION™ is ideal for all of your everyday frying needs such as eggs, pancakes/crepes, browning and caramelisation...especially proteins such as meats. It's also excellent for baking - ie pies, cakes, pizza, and bread. Roast vegetables, fried rice, frittata, omelettes, and toasted sandwiches are also perfect for AUS-ION™.
nöni™ stainless steel is best used for wet foods and acidic foods such as any slow cooking, pasta, rice, poached eggs, boiled or steamed vegetables, sauces, curries, soups, stocks, jams, paella, risotto, casseroles etc. It's also great for baking in.
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:
2.5L & 4.5L saucepans with skillet-lids – These will be your workhorses.
6L Stockpot/Rondeau with 33cm skillet-lid – 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.
22cm, 26cm or 30cm pan/skillet – Your workhorse frying pans. A skillet (also referred to as a frying pan) has sloped sides that taper in at the bottom. It’s used for anything from eggs, omelettes, meat, frittatas, pancakes, pies, even cakes. These pans will get you that perfect steak sear!
30cm Wok - for all your stir-frying and deep-frying needs. Other sizes also available.
What's the difference between AUS-ION™wrought iron & cast iron?
Our AUS-ION™ is wrought into shape from a single sheet of clean, Australian iron. Cast iron is melted down (and often mixed with other metals) and poured into a mould. AUS-ION™ is half the weight and even more durable as it cannot crack. AUS-ION™ is also more conductive as it has the optimal thermal mass for cooking - very fast heating with much less energy input than cast iron, and plenty of thermal mass to take the biggest steaks without losing temperature.
Our AUS-ION™ is made from clean, Australian iron. Our nöni™ stainless is made from ferritic, non nickel, stainless steel that is custom made for us in Germany. They are both made from a single monobloc sheet. There are no synthetic coatings or clad layers of any kind.
RAW is just traditional raw iron, with no pre-seasoning or surface blasting. Coated in natural beeswax for rust protection, it's ready for your seasoning and cooking. To shop our AUS-ION™ range, click here.
SATIN has been shot-peened and lightly pre-seasoned with natural rice bran oil, to make it even easier for your additional at-home seasoning. Safe to cook with 'out of the bag' though we do recommend further seasoning before use. To shop our AUS-ION™ range, click here.
Quenched™ has been sandblasted then seasoned for you with natural rice bran oil, for ultimate convenience! Ready to cook straight out of the box, it's never been easier. Launched on Kickstarter in early 2021, our Quenched™ range will be available to purchase on our online store towards the end of this year. If you'd like to be notified as soon as they're available, click here. Simply enter your email address in the product listings and we'll let you know once they're ready!
Both our AUS-ION™ and nöni™ 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
My pans have arrived scratched.
Raw pans: our AUS-ION™ Raw pans are finished Raw - what that means is they are raw material coated in a light layer of oil or beeswax to protect them in transit from oxidisation. There aren't any synthetic coatings, thus any scratches are superficial and a result of machine markings hidden usually by synthetic coatings). As soon as you commence the seasoning process, your pans will take on their own appearance and gradually darken and get better with age and use.
Satin Pans: Just like our Raw pans, our Satin pans are clean iron, that has had two layers of natural seasoning applied (rice bran oil) to help begin the seasoning process. Again, this is not a synthetic coating, this is just natural seasoning on raw iron. Blemishes/machine marks are very normal and will soon disappear as you begin seasoning and your pan changes in appearance.
Pans will never be perfect in appearance unless they are synthetically coated. Over the lifetime you own your pans, they'll be scratched and scuffed many times by spatulas, knives, etc, though you can have complete comfort in knowing these are just superficial scratches in your seasoning (no synthetic, toxic coatings to worry about) and are forever renewable. Our pans are made to be workhorses for generations to come, not beauty queens.
Our handles are designed to dissipate heat through the vented neck gaps, making them fine to handle in normal stovetop cooking environments. The handles will, of course, get hot in an oven environment.
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.
Please note that our style of the lid does not 'seal' shut. It's important to hold both sets of handles when moving the pan around to avoid the lid slipping.
For all seasoning related FAQs, click HERE.
Unlike synthetic non-stick coatings, you can use any utensil on our cookware - from metal to wood.
AUS-ION™ wrought iron (formed 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 (as no stainless is made in Australia).
Our noni ferritic stainless steel is custom made from us in Germany. Ferritic stainless steel is considered the healthiest type of stainless steel available as it is non-nickel and does not contain any other heavy metals.
All metals can leach some elements, but ours are safe for most people, such as iron, which is well known. Iron that's free of heavy metals has been supported by experts as the cleanest metal for centuries. To learn about the dangers of cooking with synthetic nonstick pans, and the negative impacts on our environment, click here.
Our materials are tested and show zero of any of the heavy metals. Like all manufacturers, we do not make them public to protect our IP (factories and materials). For those seeking to learn more, we encourage you to do your own research on iron and ferritic non-nickel stainless steel.
For a comparison of different types of cookware, click here to learn more.
There is no difference between our pans and all iron pans in terms of iron migration. They would 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 a lot of iron, but that would rarely happen, and would never happen if following our seasoning instructions. That's also one reason we make our noni non-nickel stainless cookware. We recommend further research for anyone who is in need of iron supplementation or looking to avoid it.
Experts are unanimous on one important matter: seasoned iron pans are the healthiest way to achieve a low-stick cooking surface.
For best results, please visit our iron care page HERE
For best results, please visit our nöni™ care page HERE
For best results cooking delicate foods like eggs, bacon, fish and pancakes, keep your heat low. For more cooking tips and tricks, CLICK HERE
Iron is susceptible to rust if not seasoned or cared for properly. But don't worry, it's an easy fix! For rust removal, CLICK HERE.
If you have a claim, please refer to our warranty page and/or contact our team via our contact form HERE
Help, my pan doesn't fit in my oven.
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.
As for oven seasoning, the pan does not need to sit flat. If needed, it can be propped up against a side in order to make it fit. The most important thing is that the pan is upside down.
Our noni 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!
Yes, we 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.
International shipping, taxes & duties
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.
Stove burn risk: our longer skillet handles are designed to resist heat transfer up the handle, and this works so successfully that hand heat protection is normally not required. This, of course, does not apply to ovens, or when the handle exposed to direct heat from underneath (such as over a campfire/coals or burner). The effective 'cool handle' effect does not work for other pan models with short handles, such as the AUSfonte cast iron BIGskillet and DEEPan, or the AUS-ION 30cm duel-handled wok, although their handle designs are better than most short loop handles.
Thermal shock: warping and cracking: Beware that iron pans can be warped and cast iron has been known to crack (although we’ve never seen it in AUSfonte) due to thermal shock from heating too quickly on electric or induction cooktops set on max. Warm your pan slowly on a lower heat before increasing to higher heat. This is particularly important with induction - please read 'Induction warping' below. Thermal shock from cooling too quickly: never expose a hot pan to cold water. Thermal shock can crack cast iron or warp steel pans, no matter how thick and tough. Let your pan cool a little before washing. Like other situations of 'abuse', warped or cracked pans from thermal shock or overheating on induction are not covered under our warranty.
Induction warping: Our iron pans are so efficient with induction that heat can become too concentrated in the middle, particularly when the induction ring size is smaller than the pan size. Because our AUS-ION wrought iron pans are so efficient on induction, there is rarely any need to go above medium power settings. Small rings and high power can certainly warp any pan, and though ours are tougher than most, it is possible. The issues can be exaggerated with high power or very centrally-focused induction. Like other situations of 'abuse', warped pans from overheating on induction are not covered under our warranty.
Lid security: Please note that our style of the lid does not seal, so please be careful. When moving the pan, hold both sets of handles to secure the lid and prevent it from sliding. This is particularly important when removing hot from the oven. We recommend removing the lid first and setting aside, before removing the base.
Oil stains: Keep in mind if your pan is oily on the base it may stain porous surfaces.
For InversionEdge FAQs, CLICK HERE.
What makes the TSS special?
The TSS is our first ever Solidteknics Kitchen tool! A multi-functional tool, designed to Turn and Scrape and Scoop!
Features and benefits:
My TSS is scraping my pan
The TSS has been designed specifically to work with our iron range and suits our noni range too. Scraping is important for seasoned iron. Most difficulties with sticking on seasoning arise from not being aware that all the fine black bumps are carbonised food, and not seasoning, and those bumps act as velcro for food. Scrape them down as you cook! Far more effective than rounded edge flippers. If it is scraping seasoning off too, just apply less pressure.
What makes the Titanium TSS so special?
Made from solid 3mm thick Titanium, our Titanium TSS is 40% lighter weight than our ferritic stainless steel version, has similar strength, though is softer for less abrasion on cookware. The titanium also offers ultimate corrosion resistance, is inert and non-toxic.
In our online store, you may find out of stock products are either 'Notify Me', 'Backorder' or 'Preorder'.
For those products set to 'Notify Me', you can enter your email address to be notified as soon as the product is back in stock. We sometimes only have small batches of stock coming through, so we recommend it if you don't want to miss out again! There is no commitment to purchase.
If an item is set to 'Backorder', you can make the purchase and we will send the product to you as soon as it is ready. Please take note of the estimated arrival day. These are our best estimates based on production, though they can change. If there is a significant change in the arrival date, we will email you to let you know.
Any products on 'Pre-order' are new products coming to our online store for the first time. You can purchase as a pre-order to secure yours. Like our Backorder option, we will ship to you as soon as they're ready.
Please note, we don't split orders. If you add a backorder or pre-order item to your order, your order will ship in its entirety once that backorder/preorder item is ready. If you would like the available products sooner, we recommend placing separate orders.
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.) Add the items you'd like to purchase to your cart, and continue through to checkout. Under 'Payment Details', click 'Redeem Voucher'. Enter your Voucher code and Secret code under 'Order summary' on the right, and click 'Redeem voucher'.
A new section will appear on the left under 'Payment details' asking how much of the voucher 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 on your next order.
How do I gain access to the Solidtekincs Lovers Facebook Group?
To get accepted into our Solidteknics Lovers' Facebook group (and gain access to our Exclusive Lovers' Launches!) all new member requests must answer the three questions when requesting to join. If your request hasn't been accepted, it's likely because you did not answer 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 them easy to see on mobile. 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
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