The 5 Best Paella Pans For fire pit (2023 reviews)

This is a sturdy enamel cooking skillet. The attractive machika pan makes an excellent container that can hold a couple of pounds of bomba or calasparra spanish rice, saffron threads, pimentón ( smoked sweet spanish paprika), and a colorful paella cookbook. It comes in handy when cooking breakfast items, like pancakes, eggs, sausages, and bacon.

The steel pan offers great heat conduction, allowing all your dishes to be cooked evenly. The enamel is a nice surface to prevent rust. This will make this pan a go to option for outdoor cooking over a pit with a grate that can easily hold this size of pan. It is great for feeding 6-8 people. It’s easy to clean and it’s easy to distribute food on this pan.

Why We Like This:

Easy to clean, heats up fast
Excellent way to go on a delicious paella
Excellent size for paellas, mariscadas or arroz con pollo for a crowd
Good size for 4 servings and the final dish was terrific

Best For BBQ: Garcima Paella Pan For fire pit

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The garcima paella pan for fire pit's superior materials makes sure that it ages well with use. This kit is a lot of fun for the backyard chef looking to expand their menu. It is good for pans up to 24 inches. It is shallow with sloping sides that help cook the rice evenly. The burners run hot even on lower settings. It comes with your regular propane tanks and accessories.

These are fantastic burners that will last forever if you store them clean and out of the weather. It is great size for a large party. It is thin, durable and it distributes heat evenly. The pan and burner are awesome.

Why We Like This:

Can be used with paella pans up to 22" in diameter
Simple to ensemble, strong enough for handle a paella
Recommended as a paella kit for your home

Best For several people: Garcima inch Pan

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This pan turns out great paella and creates the perfect socarrat. It is a genuine heavy weight carbon steel pan. It makes clean up easier plus cleans up amazingly well. A very light wipe with olive oil will keep rust at bay when storing it.

This is a wonderful pan for cooking large quantities of any type of food that you don't want piling on top of each other in a saute pan. It takes some time to build a nice coating, a bit like a cast iron pan. These are only cosmetic and of no harm to the pan or anything you cook. There is also a stainless steel version.

Why We Like This:

Good brand reputation
Delivers what they promise

Best For long run: Matfer Paella Pan For fire pit

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The matfer paella pan for fire pit is capable of outshining several other pan featured in this list in overall features for the price point. This is a heavy pan and the handles are both sturdy and large enough to move easily. It brings top-notch heat distribution and temperature control, preserving the vitamins and nutrients in your foods, perfect for your many paella creations, able to serve 6-8 servings, and able to serve 6-8 servings. It cleans well and as long as it is oiled in between uses, it is surprisingly non-stick. The iron oxide coating provides a measure of protection against corrosion.

The pan is very heavy, heats evenly, and bakes in the oven very well. It is compatible with all hob types, including induction, and is oven safe at any temperature. The handles make it easier to turn on the oven or a grill to acquire even cooking, whiling the vertical direction of the handles keep handles (and your hands) from getting to close to the heat or banging on the sides of a hooded grill.

Why We Like This:

Cleans easily, especially when kept seasoned
A real workhorse for cooking paella and more
Nice heavy weight for even cooking, nice handle design
Seasons easily, conducts heat evenly, higher walls so less spill, splash or loss

Best Quality Pan: Sertodo copper Paella Pan For fire pit

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Sertodo Copper offers a variety of pan for personal choice and yet maintaining quality in all the variants. You can cook a most savory and chewy socarrat with this beautifully crafted paella pan, but cook carefully so as not to burn the rice, etc. Like caramelization, it is a form of non-enzymatic browning. The pan is round and weighs 3.4 pounds. The handles too, are quite resistant to heat, which is another sign of a good quality pan.

The Tin is a more conductive cooking surface than stainless steel, but WILL discolor almost immediately.

Why We Like This:

Tinned copper is meant for low heat cooking
Awesome holiday/birthday gift as well for paella afficionados and copper lovers
Good pans and knifes are family members, treat them well, give love not laziness