Prep
Trivet, three-bar
Price range: $3.50 through $14.00
Three bars, seven millimetres of air, and enough mass to take a hot cast-iron pan.
| Material | Cast iron, matte black |
|---|---|
| The number | 9 mm bar, 7 mm lift |
| Care | Season lightly with a neutral oil once a year. Do not put it in a dishwasher; the coating is a seasoning, not a paint. |
| Reference | TBL-TRIV |
| Availability | In stock, ships next business day |
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In detail
A trivet has one job and most fail it by being decorative. Three heavy bars give a hot pan a stable three-point rest that will not rock, and seven millimetres of lift is enough air to stop the heat reaching a laminate or an oiled worktop underneath. Cast iron rather than silicone because silicone deforms under a 250°C pan base and then holds a permanent dish.
Matte black, cast in one piece with no welds to fail, and heavy enough that pushing a pan across it moves the pan and not the trivet. It also works as a low rack in a roasting tin.
What it is not: a substitute for the piece next to it in this course. We list what each thing does and where it stops, because a catalogue that only records strengths is one you cannot use to choose between two things.
Why this one. Prep tools are bought once and then used every single day, which inverts the usual value calculation — the difference between the adequate version and the good one is paid back inside a year and then keeps paying. We stocked the version whose failure mode we could name, and we have named it above.
