About

We Make Bakeware

Fat Daddio’s is more than an endearing name. It is a trusted one. We are a Pacific Northwest company manufacturing bakeware and pastry tools, and supplying chefs, bakeries, and foodservice teams with products that deliver professional results every day.

We believe baking is about more than bakeware, it is about people and the celebrations that bring us together. While we proudly serve wholesale and foodservice industries, our mission goes further: to create value, provide quality craftsmanship, offer exceptional service, build partnerships, and nurture a passionate baking community.

Our products are daily trusted by home bakers, restaurants, bakeries, coffee shops, hotels, caterers and foodservice professionals worldwide. Experience the difference in your own kitchen or partner with us today.

Why Bakers Switch

When a pan warps, the dessert goes with it. When a coating fails, the release turns into a scrape-and-soak. When heating is uneven, cakes harden and dome up.

Our advantage is simple: anodized aluminum bakeware, the secret ingredient. It is tough, durable, and consistent. It helps heat move cleanly through batter, so color and texture land where you expect on bake one and bake one hundred.

Baking headaches come from the pan. Here is what tends to go wrong, and what anodized aluminum fixes.

In the oven:

• Uneven browning > Even heating for consistent color and crumb
• Sticking and tearing > Clean release without relying on extra coatings
• Warping over time > Durable construction that holds its shape

Beyond the bake:

• Mediocre support > Real help fast, with clear next steps from baking tips to product advice
• Lead time surprises > Straight timelines, dependable fulfillment and clear communication
• Ordering friction > Free shipping on US orders $50+, order tracking and reliable fulfillment
• Poor experiences > Do not take our word for it. Read real customer experiences, directly from home bakers, pastry chefs, and culinary professionals who choose Fat Daddio’s to fill their kitchen cupboards.

There is a reason bakers upgrade their kitchens with Fat Daddio’s.

Anodized Aluminum

We are known for our industry-leading, anodized aluminum bakeware. It is the ideal baking surface due to its: 

• Durability
• Non-reactive properties
• Even heat-distribution
• Easy-release from its smooth surface
• Pure composition, free of extra materials or chemicals
• Sustainability with bakeware built to last, reducing waste
• Energy efficiency, making it environmentally friendly
• Cost-effectiveness

These are the last baking pans you will ever need.

Built to Last Bakeware, Every Day.

Fat Daddio’s had its start in the kitchen, not the limelight. The goal has always been repeatable and professional output: straight sides, even layers, consistent timing, clean release, and pans that keep their shape through the vigors of the day-to-day.

This commercial mindset lives in every detail we make. Materials chosen for stability. Designs built for throughput. Care guidance that keeps performance steady. Support that solves the problem and gets you back to the celebration. Whether you bake for two or two hundred, the standard stays the same: reliable consistent results.

Mission Statement

Fat Daddio’s is a trusted manufacturer of professional-grade bakeware, known for its durable anodized aluminum pans and innovative baking tools designed for consistent performance and safety. The company is deeply committed to customer satisfaction, offering exceptional service and resources to support bakers beyond the point of purchase. With a family-oriented, team-driven culture, Fat Daddio’s emphasizes quality craftsmanship, employee development, and a lean, multi-talented workforce that takes pride in exceeding expectations.

Our Core Values

At Fat Daddio’s, we do more than manufacture bakeware. We create products designed to inspire creativity and bring joy to bakers around the world.

Our core values are:

• Quality: We do not settle for less. Our anodized aluminum bakeware is known for its thickness, durability, and lack of extra metals and chemicals. Our high-quality bakeware is environmentally safe and tested and certified by multiple agencies worldwide exceeding international safety standards.
• Consistency: Our non-reactive bakeware ensures even heat distribution across its smooth surface, offering consistent baking results regardless of the recipe. It offers easy release of cakes and pastries, and easier clean-up afterwards.
• Dependability: We manufacture durable anodized aluminum bakeware that offers longevity and a lifetime of performance for both home and professional bakers. Rest assured, our bakeware resists warping, flaking and rust.
• Expertise: Leveraging over five decades of experience, we have applied practical and innovative baking solutions into our products. Through our rich history and expertise, we have cultivated the reputation we have today with our baking community partners and customers.
• Results: Our focus on producing commercial-grade bakeware enables customers to achieve unparalleled baking results. Through our efforts in manufacturing bakeware and pastry tools, we have contributed to the success of thousands of bakeries, commercial kitchens, distributors and more.

Our History, Our Story

Grandma’s shortbread cookies started it all.

In 1968, Paul (“Papa”) was working as an engineer at McDonnell Douglas, a major American aerospace company. He was the original “Daddio” and a skilled metal craftsman and had an array of metal forming equipment in his shop in San Pedro, California. Grandma was a stay-at-home Mom and a local legend, renowned for her shortbread cookies.

Before the famous shortbread cookies, Grandma wrestled with the shortbread recipe she had; they seemed to overbake in the oven no matter how much she adjusted the recipe. Papa witnessed the struggle and noticed she was using a steel cookie sheet and immediately set to work making her an improved cookie sheet in his shop. He knew that aluminum heated up much faster but steel held its core temperature 2 to 5 times as long as aluminum. The cookies initially looked great coming out of the oven but had overbaked on the bottoms by the time she could remove them with her spatula. Her shortbread cookies continued baking long after coming out of the oven. Grandma tested Papa’s improved aluminum cookie sheet and out came perfect cookies!

It was not long before Grandma was selling Papa’s cookie sheets to her friends and strangers. Papa found himself branching out and designing other types of bakeware in his shop including a jelly roll pan, oblong sheet pan, square cake pan and round cake pan, all hand formed.

It had become a family affair, and all hands were on deck in making these new pans. Papa’s son Jerry joined, and Grandma learned to weld too. It was not long before Papa took an early retirement to focus his full efforts on the growing pan business. Over the years, the family business expanded the assortment, hired additional workers and started private labeling for many of the largest brands in the world. The pans became globally recognized for quality and performance due to their consistent weight, material and design.

The Brand and the Pan

In 2006, the business, now located in Spokane, Washington in the Pacific Northwest, was challenged by one of the most widely recognized commercial cheesecake brands in the world to further improve the pans. While aluminum became known as one of the best materials for baking due to its quality and affordability in the baking and foodservice industry, it also brought on some challenges with surface reactivity and altering of flavors from acidic ingredients.

We set out to meet this challenge head on, to improve Papa’s original design that had already stood the test of time for 38 years. We tried traditional hard coat anodizing but it darkened the metal, resulting in similar baking properties as steel.

Problem #1: Porous metal that prevented cakes and delicate desserts from releasing from the pan cleanly and avoiding dark colored bakeware that causes overbaking.

Solution: After a year of hard work and dozens of design options and iterations, we found the solution, soft anodizing the material. Instead of hard anodizing, we discovered a natural, non-dye, soft anodizing process to maintain the original silver color and mimicked the baking qualities of natural aluminum. Aluminum for bakeware by itself was already a near-perfect balance of affordability and performance. The result was astonishing, cakes pulled away from the sides of the pans achieving higher rise and easier release. This created a smoother, matte surface that was easier to clean and release cakes without adding additional toxic, non-stick materials.

Problem #2: Several commercial bakeries cited negative reactions with the material of their pans leaving smudge marks on cakes. Sam’s Cheesecake was the first major cheesecake bakery to contact us about acidic reactions with one of their most notable cheesecakes. The recipe contained fresh lemon zest that, when in contact with the bare aluminum surface, left grey markings on the white sides of the cakes.

Solution: Unlike traditional aluminum bakeware, we discovered anodized aluminum was versatile enough to prevent negative reactivity in recipes containing citrus, chocolate, or even tomato-based ingredients.

Problem #3: After decades of making the rims of our pans one way, we were tasked by our commercial bakeries to come up with a better solution for an increasingly common problem. These bakeries were using crumb shell base forming and spinning machines to spin press the crumbs into a firm crust inside the pans. This machine consistently disperses and spreads a pre-measured amount of crumbs in cake pan bottoms automatically speeding up the cheesecake and cake making process. The heavy and repetitive spinning and pressing of the machines would compromise the shape of the pans and cause them to become “out of round”. This costly issue halted production lines when a spreader or press applied an uneven crust thickness or locked up production. To solve this issue was to balance the integrity of the roundness of the pan by improving its durability but also without changing its composition, negatively altering its baking performance. Going back to first principles and additional testing, we discovered that by increasing the size of the traditional rolled rim of the cake pan, it achieved the durability requirement as well as adding the benefit of easier handling to and from surfaces in busy bakery environments. However, this design change posed another problem, the new larger rim size trapped heat at the top of the pan causing inconsistent baking.

Solution: The final solution was a combination of the increased rim size and the introduction of a gap between the rim’s outer edge and the wall of the pan. This allowed heat to escape the walls and prevent overbaked cake crusts. This design solution, solved by engineering, maintained the symmetry of the pan and improved the pan durability by decades.

Due to the aluminum material, these pans would never rust and are guaranteed to not chip, flake or peel. Fat Daddio’s anodized aluminum pans contain no PFAS, PTFE’s or PFOA’s, or other chemical coatings. These pans pass many domestic and global safety standards and require no disclosures or asterisks on our products, which have become quite prominent with other brands in the baking and food service industry. Once we settled on the ideal baking material type, thickness, rim design, bottom radius, finishes and other specifications, we made the decision to create our own brand and Fat Daddio’s ProSeries bakeware was released to the world in April of 2007. We attribute these results to years of conversations, factory plant visits, R&D meetings, and addressing the pain points of our partners.

Today, we have sold tens of millions of pans found around the world. Our relentless pursuit of baking performance iterations continues; from the consistency and quality that started with that first jelly roll pan in 1968, and through pans made today coveted by bakers and chefs alike. The famous shortbread cookie recipe is still baked in Fat Daddio’s pans to this day.

Fat Daddio’s As Seen on TV

Fat Daddio’s bakeware has been trusted by top pastry chefs and baking artists on some of the most popular baking shows on television and streaming media since 2009. From Food Network’s Ace of Cakes and Halloween Wars to Netflix hits like Nailed It!, Is It Cake?, and Baking Impossible, our products are dedicated to creativity and consistent results under the pressure of competitive kitchens: Where You’ve Seen Fat Daddio’s

Industries Served

We serve food service, houseware, craft and hobby industries among others. Also, our growing custom manufacturing division has created product solutions for industries as varied as radio astronomy, military, bio sciences, architectural, automotive and telecommunications.

Timeline

• 1968—Papa (Paul) makes his first cookie sheet for Grandma
• 1970—Papa retires from McDonnell Douglas (now merged with Boeing) to focus on his growing pan business
• 1971—Papa moves to a new shop in Los Angeles, California and the business becomes a family affair as Grandma starts making pans
• 1972—Their son, Jerry, joins the family business, and they purchase 2 spinning lathes and hone the art of hand spinning aluminum into round and cheesecake pans.
• 1972—Family business creates the first cheesecake pan for a small new bakery called The Cheesecake Factory, developing an early version of a “spring-free” cheesecake pan
• 1981—They make their 1 millionth pan
• 1989—Family company expands to another location in Gardena, California, and again in 1991, into a larger facility in Ontario, California
• 1993—Production begins for the largest celebrity in home and kitchen, Martha Stewart (Martha by Mail)
• 1994—The family business moves to Spokane, Washington
• 1994—Manufacturing begins of 3 product lines for the largest brand in the cake decorating industry at the time, Wilton Industries
• 1995—Completion of a custom telecommunications project for shield protecting tower components across 50 states, Canada, and Mexico; GTE Corporation (now merged with Verizon Communications)
• 1996—Investment is made by the family business to add in-house tooling design and fabrication
• 1997—Jerry passes away and the 3rd generation takes over the family business
• 2006—The brand “Fat Daddio’s” and “ProSeries Anodized Aluminum Bakeware” is born in Spokane, Washington
• 2007—Fat Daddio’s begins selling on Amazon.com
• 2008—Fat Daddio’s makes its first television appearance on Ace of Cakes, the first reality TV show dedicated to cake decorating, the series became one of the Food Network’s highest-rated programs, helping bring cakes into mainstream culture
• 2008—Private label lines in UK, Germany, Europe, and Nordic countries
• 2009—Largest product expansion yet occurs with the addition of over 120 items
• 2010—Launched co-branded line for a large houseware retailer in the UK
• 2011—Private label lines established in Australia, New Zealand, and Australasian markets.
• 2012—Delivered New York City’s largest custom blue-green infrastructure project at the time under NYC DEP’s Green Infrastructure Program (HydroQual, Inc.). Designed a 2 ft × 2 ft anodized aluminum “blue roof” tray system to slow rooftop runoff before it enters the East River.
• 2015—products added to largest Housewares chain in the USA, Bed Bath & Beyond, and global expansion ramps up
• 2016—Expands into Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Eastern European and African nations.
• 2018—Fat Daddio’s Round Cake Pans becomes the #1 Best Selling Cake Pans on Amazon.com
• 2021—Company accelerates growth with many new customers in over 4,000 doors
• 2022—Warehouse capacity increased by 30 percent to support rising demand
• 2024—Fat Daddio’s expands beyond a wholesale and commercial business model
• TODAY—Countless pans sold! Owned today by 3 dads, keeping the family-owned legacy alive. Tens of millions of pans sold in over 5,000 retail locations in the United States, and across 61 countries in many more retail locations

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