This is the Nordic Ware Naturals half sheet pan in a 2-pack — two 13 x 18-inch commercial-quality aluminum sheet pans, the size and gauge used in professional bakeries. The half sheet is the workhorse pan of a baking kitchen: a full batch of chocolate chip cookies fits on one, a whole sheet pan dinner fits on one, and roasted vegetables have room to brown instead of steam.
Pure aluminum conducts heat more evenly than steel, so cookies bake the same color edge to edge and there are no hot spots that scorch the center. The rolled steel rim keeps the pan flat through hundreds of oven cycles. Owning two means a full batch of cookies can come out of the oven while the next batch is already prepped and ready to go in.
Nordic Ware has been manufacturing bakeware in Minneapolis, Minnesota since 1946. The company invented the Bundt pan in 1950 and still casts, spins, and coats every piece in its Naturals, Bundt, and cast aluminum lines at that same Minnesota factory — one of the last family-owned American bakeware makers still building its core products at home.
