Best eighth sheet pans

What an eighth sheet is actually for

A half sheet is the pan a household cooks on. A quarter sheet is the pan a countertop oven takes - best quarter sheet pans covers that size, including why the name and the measurement come apart. An eighth sheet is smaller again, at roughly 10 by 7 inches outside, and the honest first question is whether a pan that small does anything.

It does three things, and Nordic Ware publishes all three on its own listings rather than leaving buyers to guess.

1. It fits where nothing else does. Published as fitting compact and countertop ovens, standard ovens, and - the part no other bakeware listing we have read addresses - air fryers with shelves. If you have the shelf type rather than the basket type, this is the sheet pan for it.
2. It is a prep surface, not only a baking one. The published uses include ingredient prep, carrying marinated food to and from a grill, and breading before frying. A pan this size spends as much time on a counter as in an oven.
3. It portions. One serving of anything roasted, one small batch of cookies, one reheated slice. For a one or two person household that is the whole argument - best pans for baking for one or two people makes it across the rest of the category.

What it is not is a substitute for a bigger pan. At 9.4 by 6.3 inches of cooking surface you are fitting a dozen small cookies or one portion of vegetables, and crowding a sheet pan is how roasted food steams instead of browning. Buy this size as an addition, never as the only sheet pan in the house.

The finding: one company owns this size

This is unusual enough to lead with. Searching the category for consumer pans - as opposed to commercial twelve-to-a-case boxes - turns up four Nordic Ware pans and one GoodCook. There is no Fat Daddio's eighth sheet, no USA Pan eighth sheet, nothing from the makers that compete at every larger size.

That matters for a buyer in a specific way: you are not really choosing between brands, you are choosing between four listings from one company. And those four listings do not agree with each other.

Three warranty terms, four nearly identical pans

Every figure in this table is published on the listing we link. We did not infer any of it.

Read the first three rows together and the problem is clear. The bare two-pack gets five years. The bare single gets lifetime. The coated two-pack also gets lifetime. So the longest term on the list belongs to the pan with a wear surface on it, and the shortest belongs to one with nothing applied to it at all.

That is not how coatings normally affect a warranty, and we know because we found the opposite pattern at the same brand three days ago. At quarter size, Nordic Ware publishes lifetime limited on its bare Naturals pans and 10 year on its gold nonstick Baker's pan - coating shortens the term, which at least has a logic to it. Put the two audits together and across five Nordic Ware sheet pans this site has now read, the company has published lifetime limited, 10 year, 5 year and no term at all, with no relationship to whether the pan is coated.

None of this says the pans are badly made. Nordic Ware's bare aluminum sheet pans are this site's default recommendation at half and quarter size and remain so here. It says the warranty is a property of the listing rather than of the product, so read the term on the exact listing you are buying and do not assume it carries across the line. Cookware warranties explained covers what these terms exclude once you have one.

Two more fields that were never filled

While reading these listings we found two numbers that cannot be true, both from the same company.

• The Naturals single-pack publishes a weight of 0.000625 lb. That is a hundredth of an ounce. The pan is aluminum and measures 10 by 7 inches.
• The Brilliant publishes a length of 1.14 inches in its Amazon dimensions field, for a pan its own description puts at 10.1 inches. The 1.14 is the pan's height, entered in the wrong box.

Add the Nordic Ware quarter sheet with the grid, whose listing publishes a weight of 0.0625 lb for an aluminum pan plus a steel grid, and that is three unusable numeric fields from one maker in four days. We report them as placeholders rather than repeating them as measurements, which is the same call this site made on BergHOFF's zero-weight Graphite pan and EuroCAST's “Test Manufacturer” field.

The practical consequence is small but real: if you are comparing pans by the Amazon specification box rather than by the description, you will get nonsense at this size. Read the description.

The one published oven ceiling, and it is low

Four of these five pans publish no oven temperature at all. The one that does is the Brilliant, and the number is 400F.

That is worth pausing on, because it is the lowest published ceiling of any sheet pan in this ledger - below the 450F that USA Pan's uncoated quarter sheet publishes and well below the 550F on Fat Daddio's. Most roasting recipes call for 400 to 425F, so a published 400F pan is at or past its stated limit for the job people most often buy a sheet pan to do.

The silence from the other four is its own problem. Bare aluminum is not a fragile material and a bare Naturals pan is almost certainly fine hotter than 400F - but almost certainly is not a specification, and if you intend to broil on one, nobody has told you whether you may. Sheet pan materials compared explains what each material does; it cannot tell you what a maker will stand behind.

The outsider publishes what the specialist will not

The GoodCook pan is the odd one here in every way, and it is instructive.

It is the only pan in the audit published as metal spatula safe and the only one published as dishwasher safe. Both are claims that matter daily, and neither appears on any Nordic Ware eighth sheet listing - Nordic Ware recommends hand washing for its bare pans and says nothing about utensils.

The catch is the metal. GoodCook publishes “heavy-duty gauge steel”, not aluminum, and the gap between those two materials is the single biggest factor in how a thin flat pan behaves - which is the argument best sheet pans makes in full and this page is not going to repeat. Buying it is a deliberate trade: worse browning, in exchange for a pan that survives a shared kitchen.

If a metal turner is going to be used on your bakeware whatever anyone intends, the pans that publish a metal-utensil rating is the cookware version of the same problem.

One or two

Two, and more firmly than at any larger size. A pan holding one portion is only useful when you can do two things at once with it - a tray of vegetables and a tray of something else, or one in the oven while the second is being loaded. The whole appeal of the format is that two of them together still take less space than one half sheet.

That is why the two-packs rank first and third here, and why the single-pack is framed as a way to find out whether you like the size rather than as the thing to settle on. The odd part is that buying the pair costs you the warranty, as the table above shows.

Measuring, briefly

1. Measure the interior of the appliance at its narrowest point, not the door. For an air fryer with shelves, measure the shelf.
2. Compare it to the exterior figure - 10 by 7 inches for the Nordic Ware pans, 9 by 6.3 for the GoodCook - and not to the cooking surface, which is the number people confuse it with.
3. Leave room for air. A pan that touches the walls of a small cavity browns unevenly, and in a convection appliance it blocks the fan - cookware for convection ovens is the full version of that rule.
4. If it still will not fit, the honest answer is that nothing smaller is made in a sheet pan format worth buying. The commercial listings below this size are twelve-to-a-case boxes.

What we cannot tell you

How hot four of these five pans can go, because nobody publishes it. How thick any of them are, because no eighth sheet in this audit publishes a gauge - not even the maker that publishes one at quarter size. What the GoodCook coating is made of, because the listing says only that it resists scratches. And what Nordic Ware's warranty terms will be next month, given that they currently differ across four versions of the same pan.

We have not baked on any of these. Everything above is published by the maker on the listing we link, or recorded here as unpublished - how we work. And we cannot tell you what any of them cost when you click: the button carries the live number and the stamp below says when it was last checked.

Which to buy

1. Default: the Naturals two-pack. Bare aluminum, published dimensions, two pans.
2. Trying the size first, or you want the longer warranty: the single-pack, which is the same pan with a lifetime limited term.
3. A shared kitchen, or you want the dishwasher: the GoodCook mini baking sheets, accepting steel instead of aluminum.
4. You want release, or a stated temperature: the Naturals Nonstick pair for the first, the Brilliant for the second - and keep the Brilliant under 400F.

Prices last checked November 12, 2026. Prices move constantly — the number on Amazon when you click is the real one.