Chef's Gallery 23cm round cake pan review

Twenty-three centimetres is nine inches in metric, so imported recipes translate directly, and it is small enough to leave air around it in a countertop oven. The owner record is the thinnest here.

Why 23cm is the practical size

Two reasons converge on this number, which is unusual.

It is nine inches. Nine inches is 22.9cm, so this is the metric expression of the size almost every published layer-cake recipe assumes. You can follow an imported recipe without recalculating anything.

It fits a countertop oven properly. Not just fits, but fits with air moving around it on every side, which is what makes a bake even. The 26cm pans in this same brand’s range crowd a small oven, and the 10.2 and 11-inch Chef’s Classics pans crowd it harder. If you bake in a countertop model, this is the size that stops being a compromise.

Those two things rarely line up. Here they do.

What is the build?

High-grade carbon steel with a non-stick coating, and a published oven ceiling of 220°C / 428°F. Chef’s Gallery is one of very few sellers in this category to state a temperature rating at all, and it is a real number rather than a formality: cakes bake between 160°C and 190°C, so you are inside it, but a recipe that opens hotter is outside what the brand will stand behind.

Carbon steel is the right body: it keeps the pan flat, so batter does not pool to one side.

What holds it back?

The owner record is the thinnest in this roundup. Eight ratings averaging a perfect 5.0, on 34 sold. That is not a warning sign, but it is not evidence either. It means nobody has complained yet, and it is why this ranks below pans with hundreds of owners behind an equivalent score.

The depth is not published. On a cake pan that is what decides whether you are baking one layer or a taller single cake, and it is a real gap when the whole appeal is matching a recipe’s stated size.

The base is fixed, so a soft sponge has to be inverted onto a rack.

Is it sulit?

Around ₱91 as of August 20, 2026. Check the latest price on Shopee. That is very cheap for carbon steel with a documented temperature rating, and considerably less than the Chef’s Classics pans of comparable size. The catch is the shallow record: you are buying on the brand’s documentation rather than on a body of owner experience.

Who should buy it

Buy this if you bake in a countertop oven, follow imported recipes, and are comfortable being an early buyer. If you want a pan with hundreds of owners behind it, buy the Chef’s Classics 10.2-inch instead and check your oven clearance.

See how it ranks in our best non-stick bakeware in the Philippines roundup, or measure your oven first with our non-stick bakeware buying guide.

Alternatives to consider

Want a pan of similar size with a deep owner record and a stated depth? The Chef’s Classics 10.2-inch round pan is the one to compare. Want a tart shape from the same brand instead? The Chef’s Gallery 26cm round tart pan is the one to compare.