How Its Made
Steel Chefs facility consists of over 20,000 Sq Ft of manufacturing and fulfillment space. Here we have the capabilities to fulfill thousands of orders a week with the following flow of processes. We can guarantee a 100% made in America product for all our cooking steels which in return will not just help feed the mouths of your family but many families that work at Steel Chef!
The Design Team
The first step of our process is in the hands or our design team. Here they try to understand the needs of our customers and design products with that need in mind. They also take in all custom orders, stocked items and prototypes, create them using CAD software and "nest" them on a large cooking steel sheet for our next process...
Advanced CNC Laser Cutting
After the design team completes their tasks, it moves to our CNC team's equipment. Here the product gets laser cut out of large American made cooking steel sheets. The laser offers the most premium cut profile with insane precision and speed. This in return helps us offer a high-quality product for a low cost for you to enjoy. Once the steel is cut it then moves to our next process...
Hi-Strength Bending
Depending on which product you've ordered your cooking steel may go straight to out cleaning process or it may go to our giant press brake that is used to form the edges on some of our products. Our products are bent using a CNC machine capable of producing 270Ton or bending force! Truely impressive for sure! This process helps us place strategic and aesthetic bend on our products with extreme precision and durability. Once formed and stacked neatly on a pallet your steel moves to the clean welding process...
Clean Welding
Once it's through the bending process it then moves to our certified clean welding department if required. Here we utilize the experience of high qualified/certified welders. This team puts the extra attention into detail and cleanliness with every clean welded part ensuring a good clean weld suitable for your cooking steel. Once completed your cooking steel moves to the cleaning process...
The Cleaning
After the welding is complete then comes the most important part of the cooking steels journey, the cleaning. We pay special attention to the cleaning process to ensure your steel is ready for you to enjoy. The first process in cleaning is bead blasting the steel so we can ensure a nice deep clean finish. We use a bead blasting system that consists of a 60' room capable of generating 250CFM of blasting power. What does that mean you ask? Insane deep cleaning capabilities compared to competitors using small sandblasting units that have power restrictions and may contaminate the steel with the type of blast media they use such as sand. After the bead blasting process, it is then moved to a hand washing station that uses a special cleaning method to ensure it is ready for your use.
After cleaning our Fulfillment team packages your order and sends it directly to you. This 5-step process helps us provide a clean and tough cooking steel you will use for many years. Thank you for taking the time to support our small family-owned American business!