Founder story

Built by a Founder, Not a Factory.

I started Stellyfire the week after Class 12 ended.

Stellyfire forged ceramic frypan resting on a warm stone kitchen counter

In his words

“हम तो बर्तन बेचते हैं — but we built every one of them like the food in it matters.”

You deserve a kitchen that looks premium and cooks clean. That's all this is.

The whole story

One person, one problem, one coating worth trusting.

  1. The problem

    No office. No team. No funding. Just a problem I couldn't stop thinking about — why does premium cookware in India either cost a fortune or compromise on safety? Walk into any kitchen in the country and you'll find the same thing: pans flaking Teflon into food, coatings that chip after three months, brands making claims nobody ever verifies. Meanwhile, the truly good stuff — the cookware that's actually safe, actually built to last — is either imported and unaffordable, or certified nowhere that actually matters.

    A blush pink Stellyfire frypan on a stone counter
  2. Faridabad

    I grew up in Faridabad. My mother cooked on the same kadhai for years because she trusted it, not because it was fancy. That trust is everything in an Indian kitchen. And I kept thinking — someone should build a brand that deserves that trust. Not with marketing language. With actual lab tests, actual certifications, actual materials that don't poison the food you're cooking for your family.

    A ceramic pan warming on a gas flame in a home kitchen
  3. The work

    So I started building it. I spent months working with manufacturers in Haryana — my own backyard — learning what separates forged aluminum from pressed, what the ISI certification actually tests for, what PTFE does to your body when a pan overheats. Most brands don't want you to know any of this. I wanted to put it all on the label.

    Forged aluminium pan bodies stacked in a Haryana workshop
  4. ForgedCeramic™

    ForgedCeramic™ was the result. A ceramic coating that's genuinely free of PTFE, PFAS, lead, and cadmium — independently tested, ISI certified, built for the intensity of Indian cooking. Not designed in California or manufactured somewhere nobody can verify. Made here. In Haryana. By people I know.

    Hands inspecting a freshly coated ceramic pan
  5. Why it exists

    Stellyfire isn't a corporation. It's one person who got angry at a problem and decided to fix it — and who happens to believe that beautiful, safe, honest cookware shouldn't be a luxury reserved for people who can spend ₹6,000 on a frypan.

    Macro view of the ForgedCeramic cooking surface
Detail of the ForgedCeramic cooking surface on a Stellyfire pan

Signed

You deserve a kitchen that looks premium and cooks clean.

— Tanishq

Founder · Stellyfire International · Faridabad, 2025