cobaltgrl wrote:This handsome Soapstone Griddle/Grill Combo with its patent pending groove design will transform your cooktop into an indoor grill and will ensure you cook like a pro on your outdoor BBQ for all your essential eats~resulting in better health for the whole family!

Handcrafted entirely from one solid block of soapstone, this durable grill + griddle combination is rated for use up to 1200 degrees, over twice that of cast iron and other metal cookware.

Indoors on your gas or electric cooktop, I recommend using the flat griddle side to grill everything from eggs + pancakes to meat, fish + veggies! Use it in the oven as a pizza stone + cookie sheet. With its uniform heat distribution, you can count on the entire surface to cook evenly using relatively low heat.

Outdoors~flip it over and set the soapstone grill side up right on your grilling rack! Cook like a pro~use high heat to lock in flavors while significantly reducing the risk of producing cancer causing carcinogens.

11.5" wide x 15" long rectangular griddle + grill combo
13.5 pounds
Recycled soapstone from factory excess
Versatile, durable, energy efficient
May be used in the oven, on gas or electric cooktops or on the grill
Fast cook at extremely high temperatures or slow cook on low heat
Perfect for low-fat, healthy cooking
FDA approved GRAS (Generally Regarded As Safe)
To clean scrape off any excess food with a wooden spatula; using a sponge or scouring pad wash with warm soapy water using eco-friendly soap
If you're worried about storage, don't! Keep the soapstone flat griddle side up on your counter and use as a cutting board. In fact, once you start using your griddle, lots of your cookware will become obsolete and you'll no longer need it taking up valuable storage space.

We don't like to say our griddle is non-stick because it definitely hasn't been treated or coated with ANY of the harmful and known cancer-causing chemicals that are the hallmark of non-stick cookware. In fact, our Soapstone Griddle hasn't been treated at all...just cut and shipped to you!

What we will tell you, though, is that because of the super smooth surface, food does NOT have a tendency to stick. Additionally, as it becomes seasoned from continuous use, any tendency for food to stick dissipates over time.

Our Soapstone Griddle is handmade by SPARQ in Colorado by the guys who know soapstone and understand its amazing qualities. PLUS our griddles fit nicely into the eco-friendly category because they are handmade with soapstone from factory excess.

After our Soapstone Griddle is initially heated, it retains its temperature and distributes heat more efficiently so less heat is needed for cooking! Cool, huh?

A little background about soapstone...this naturally occurring stone is made up of mineral deposits that include talc, chlorite, dolomite and magnesite as its main components. This combination of minerals produce light flowing veins and give soapstone its warm, soft feeling and light grey color. When cut soapstone oxidizes from light grey to dark charcoal in color. The color can be further dramatized when wiped down with a protective coating of coconut oil.

Natural soapstone is non-porous, odorless and tasteless. Because of these important-to-cooks-everywhere properties, our Soapstone Griddle never compromises the taste of your food. Its smooth surface surface will not react to acids + alkalis because soapstone is inert so there is no breakdown, discoloration or imparted odor or taste.

The dense stone stores and radiates heat (and cold) longer than any metal or clay cooking material spreading the heat as evenly as copper. Milled by hand in Denver, Colorado and sourced from Brazil and India, where some of the richest deposits of soapstone in the world are found. USA

Thanks for the post! By the time I would have found this, it'd be gone. I've been looking at a cast iron grill/griddle, but looks like I can safely pull the trigger on this. woot! woot!

Tried to post this earlier, but I wasn't able to load this page... because of everyone pounding woot's servers to try to get their cr@p b@gs.

Anyway, I wanted to say that I wouldn't recommend using soap on these. The experts over at Cook's Illustrated say that soap can get absorbed into pizza stones (which are similar to these) and impart off-flavors to food that is subsequently cooked on them. Hot water should be good enough for most cleanups, especially if the griddle is still hot. If you need something with more abrasive power, you could try coarse salt, which is less likely to scratch the surface than metal scouring pads.

One thing I wonder about is how resistant this is to cracking from repeated heating and cooling cycles. Every pizza stone I've tried has cracked within a year. I now use unglazed ceramic or adobe tile from Lowes or Home Depot... it just bugs me a lot less to lose a 2-buck tile than a $30 pizza stone.

Just got it and two of the corners appear to have been pretty badly chipped during shipping... Oh well. I guess I will just sand them down a bit.

It's actually very pretty.

... same issue with mine, but only moderately chipped. Sparq/woot needs to learn to package these more securely if they're going to use smartpost.

windhunde wrote:... same issue with mine, but only moderately chipped. Sparq/woot needs to learn to package these more securely if they're going to use smartpost.

Mine arrived today with a chipped corner. Between the thinnest bubble wrap I've ever seen and the flimsy cardboard "frame", this might be the worst shipping I've seen for a heavy, fragile item. Seriously, after spending so much energy on manufacturing the thing, they put it in packaging like this?!?!

I'll be asking for a replacement, hopefully in better packaging.

Got my griddle yesterday. I wish only the corners were chipped. My fears of the product were true. It has a huge crack down the center.

Neither the recommended wooden spatula nor soap and water can clean mine.

Mine seemed fine. Washed it, as advised in the directions. Used it last night to cook two t-bones on the stove top. Let it cool, as-is, where...woke up this morning, huge crack formed down the middle. Useless now for anything with juices.

Can someone send me the Would you like to take a survey? of the instructions (with the curing directions). Mine came with the second page twice and no Would you like to take a survey?.