Engineered for fire
Cookware engineered
for live fire.
316 marine-grade stainless steel. Made in USA. A growing line of tools built across five fire-cooking traditions — starting with the plancha.
Hero #1
The Full Kit
Launch photography in progress.
The right steel.
316 marine-grade stainless — molybdenum content for high-temperature creep resistance, no seasoning, no rust. Develops its own patina over decades of use.
One system, every fire.
A patent-pending engagement system that scales across every line. One tool moves every plate and engages every major surface accessory. Single-person operation at temperature.
Built to outlive you.
Monolithic construction. American steel, US manufacturing. Covered for life by the Lifetime Guarantee. Owned by people who care about their tools, and passed down to the people who inherit them.
The lines
Five fires.
One system.
ARDORA is built across five fire-cooking traditions — Western, Spanish, Japanese, South African, Argentine. Each line carries the same engagement system, the same materials, the same engineering principles.
Read about the lines →- 01The HearthPizza ovensHearth 12 — Q4 2026
- 02The BrasaCharcoal & kettle grillsPlanned 2027
- 03The TeppanFire pitsPlanned Q1 2027
- 04The BraaiLarge outdoor live firePlanned 2027
- 05The AsadorStandalone cartIn R&D
Reading the steel
The patina is the record.
316 stainless oxidizes in predictable color bands as it heats — straw, gold, bronze, blue, dark. The pattern is a temperature map. Once a plate has been used, the heat-tint patina records every cook it has ever done.
Sear zones bronze first. Outer rings stay golden. Every plate becomes unique to the operator who uses it. We ship a card with every plate explaining how to read it.
Read the engineering →Hero #3
Heat-Tint Patina — macro
Launch photography in progress.
From the workshop
Recent writing
Reading the steel
Stainless develops heat-tint colors at high temperature. They are not a real-time thermometer. They are something better — a map of how you cook.
Why I'm building this
I bought a pizza oven and discovered that none of the accessories built for it could survive its actual operating temperature. So I started designing one.
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