✔ 60cm Corten Steel Bowl — Presence Before the Fire Is Even Lit — At sixty centimetres across, the Gystad bowl has the proportions to anchor an outdoor space as a standalone object — before the fire is lit, before the cooking begins. The Corten surface develops its warm russet patina through outdoor exposure, shifting gradually from raw steel to something that looks as though the garden grew around it. A material transformation that no powder coat or painted finish replicates, and one that continues improving for as long as the Gystad is outside.
✔ Open Wood Fire — The Cooking Method That Changes the Meal — Wood-fired heat is not a preference — it is a fundamentally different cooking environment. The radiant intensity, the unpredictable flame, the char and caramelisation that accumulate on food cooked over real combustion — none of it is achievable over gas. The Gystad doesn't approximate this. It delivers it, at scale, in the open air.
✔ Plancha Plate and Grill Grate Included — Two Cooking Surfaces, One Fire — The plancha plate distributes heat evenly across its full face — ideal for searing, frying, and anything that benefits from consistent, direct contact with a hot surface. The grill grate sits over the flame for the kind of open-fire grilling that leaves marks, develops crust, and produces results worth gathering around. Both are included. Both are removed in moments when the cooking is done.
✔ From Kitchen to Fire Pit Without Transition — When the meal ends and the cooking elements come off, the Gystad reverts instantly to what it always was — an open fire to draw people around for the remainder of the evening. No reconfiguration, no secondary setup, no separate fire pit required. The same bowl, the same fire, serving two distinct purposes with equal conviction.
✔ Sculptural Quality — A Garden Object With Its Own Integrity — The combination of Corten's organic patina, the bowl's generous proportions, and the simplicity of the overall form gives the Gystad a sculptural presence that holds up in daylight as well as firelight. Against a whitewashed wall, on a contemporary deck, set into planting — it sits naturally in each context because the form is resolved enough to belong anywhere considered outdoor living is taken seriously.
✔ Convivial by Design — Open-fire cooking at this scale is inherently social — it slows the pace, draws people in, and turns the preparation of food into part of the occasion itself. The Gystad is proportioned and configured for exactly that: a fire pit that cooks, a cooking station that gathers, and an evening that doesn't end when the food is served.
