How It All Started

After becoming disenchanted by the lack of quality and accountability present in modern goods manufactured overseas, housewares designer Peter Huntley founded Stargazer Cast Iron in 2015. Today, tens of thousands of skillets later, Stargazer continues to grow.

Casting Our Cookware

Our cookware begins its journey at our foundry, where domestically sourced, primarily recycled iron is melted at 2,800°F. The molten iron is refined and checked for purity, then poured into molds made of sand and clay in a process known as “green sand” casting. Once cooled, the molds are released on a shakeout line, leaving behind a solid, raw casting

Smooth, Micro-Textured Cooking Surface

The raw castings are sent to our machine shop, where they're loaded into a custom-built fixture and CNC machined across the entire interior surface. This allows us to dial in the optimal weight & thickness of each piece with precision.

The castings are then meticulously shaped by hand using a series of hand tools to grind and smooth any burrs or other artifacts remaining from casting and machining before moving onto a two-step surface finish treatment.