Challenger Bread Pan®

The revolutionary cast iron bread pan designed by bakers, for bakers. This unique pan give you a safer baking experience and beautiful results, without the need for complicated workarounds. The Challenger Bread Pan® help you to bake better bread every day! With easy to use top handles, and a deep lid for plenty of spring, your Challenger is made in the USA with heirloom quality cast iron that’s built to last for generations.

Top 3 Reasons You’ll Love Your Challenger Bread Pan®:

1. Shallow base: loading your dough is easy.
2. Sealed environment: creates the perfect amount of steam.
3. Versatile: fits a wide variety of bread shapes and sizes, as well as other baked goods.

Bread baking at the highest level

Every detail of the Challenger Bread Pan® was designed with the baker in mind.

                      HEAT                             STEAM                          HANDLES

   Absorb. Radiate. Retain.          Trapped.                 Perfectly placed.

Bring on the Heat

The Challenger is made out of thick, black cast iron because it is proven to absorb, retain, and radiate heat — just what your dough needs. The cover is shaped like a loaf of bread to bring radiant heat as close as possible to help your dough’s oven spring and bloom. It’s a self-contained oven within your oven so that heat is not lost when you open the oven to take the cover off.

With handles large enough for oven mitts, you’ll easily load your dough, place and remove the cover, and safely remove your perfect loaf.

The Perfect Amount of Steam

Steam is what produces bread with crackling crust, rich colors, open scores, and full volume. The Challenger is designed to ensure a tight seal between the cover and the base, trapping the steam your dough needs while baking.

One Pan To Rule Them All

Small combo cookers yield small boules. Dutch ovens have bakers cutting elaborate parchment slings to lower dough without burning their hands (or degassing the dough!). Baking stones and steels require even more elaborate workarounds to create steam. Clay bakers crack.

No more baking workarounds. The Challenger is designed for you to bake all your favorite breads. It’s easy to load and score your dough. The sealed cover traps the steam you need. Your Challenger won’t crack. In fact, it’s made to last for generations.

Product Details & Dimensions;

- EXTERIOR (Includes Handles)
Length 15.4 in / 392 mm x Width 10.5 in / 266 mm x Height 5.4 in / 136 mm

- INTERIOR
Length 11.5 in / 292 mm x Width 9 in / 228 mm x Height 5 in/ 127 mm

- WEIGHT
Total 22.0 lbs / 10.0 kg    (Lid 12.63 lbs / 5.73 kg & Base 9.37 lbs / 4.27 kg)

- MATERIAL
Our pan is made from cast iron with the following percentages of other metals: carbon 2.5-4.2, silicon 1.0-3.0, manganese 0.15-1.0, sulfur 0.02-0.25, phosphorus 0.02-1.0.