Don't buy pizza stone

[dr150]

Sounds like your temperature wasn't high enough.

bingo

 

[WelshBloke]

Crappy cell phone camera picture but great pizza. Cooked on a pizza stone.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Proves that this process is useless and not cost-efficient considering I can make better pizza without the stone. That in regards to your brain cells.

Perhaps YOU can make better pizza without the stone, but that's only because YOU can't figure out how the stone works. For everyone else a pizza stone is a very good tool.

Does it bother you that the concept of cooking on hot rocks is too difficult for you to grasp while it was so easy a caveman could do it? And that's not a tagline from an insurance commercial. Cavemen did in fact know how to cook on hot rocks more than half a million years ago.

 

[DrPizza]

Holy hell in a handbasket. For a thread about pizza crust, and all the pictures of pizza, it amazes me that not one person has shown a picture of the bottom of their pizza - you know, the part where the stone makes the difference. Anyone can make a pizza that looks amazing from above. Well, judging by the pictures, I take that back. But, it's the bottom that matters. Next time you're at a good pizzeria, notice that the cooks look at the bottom of the pizza to determine doneness, not the top.

 

[WelshBloke]

Holy hell in a handbasket. For a thread about pizza crust, and all the pictures of pizza, it amazes me that not one person has shown a picture of the bottom of their pizza - you know, the part where the stone makes the difference. Anyone can make a pizza that looks amazing from above. Well, judging by the pictures, I take that back. But, it's the bottom that matters. Next time you're at a good pizzeria, notice that the cooks look at the bottom of the pizza to determine doneness, not the top.

All the topping falls off when I try.

 

[IronWing]

Holy hell in a handbasket. For a thread about pizza crust, and all the pictures of pizza, it amazes me that not one person has shown a picture of the bottom of their pizza - you know, the part where the stone makes the difference. Anyone can make a pizza that looks amazing from above. Well, judging by the pictures, I take that back. But, it's the bottom that matters. Next time you're at a good pizzeria, notice that the cooks look at the bottom of the pizza to determine doneness, not the top.

That would reveal the stone cold crusts. :whiste:

 

[sdifox]

Holy hell in a handbasket. For a thread about pizza crust, and all the pictures of pizza, it amazes me that not one person has shown a picture of the bottom of their pizza - you know, the part where the stone makes the difference. Anyone can make a pizza that looks amazing from above. Well, judging by the pictures, I take that back. But, it's the bottom that matters. Next time you're at a good pizzeria, notice that the cooks look at the bottom of the pizza to determine doneness, not the top.

That is probably too close to up skirt shot for comfort.

 

[IronWing]

That is probably too close to up skirt shot for comfort.

That would reveal the stone cold crusts. :whiste:

 

[BUTCH1]

Mine just cracked in half for no reason, used it@500 degrees F, let it cool off inside the oven, next day I went to retrieve it and had split in half..

 

[WelshBloke]

Mine just cracked in half for no reason, used it@500 degrees F, let it cool off inside the oven, next day I went to retrieve it and had split in half..

Was it one of the porous ceramic ones?
I think that they just absorb moisture and with the extreme heat changes they deal with they just don't last. They are pretty cheap though so, no worries really.

 

[Howard]

Holy hell in a handbasket. For a thread about pizza crust, and all the pictures of pizza, it amazes me that not one person has shown a picture of the bottom of their pizza - you know, the part where the stone makes the difference. Anyone can make a pizza that looks amazing from above. Well, judging by the pictures, I take that back. But, it's the bottom that matters. Next time you're at a good pizzeria, notice that the cooks look at the bottom of the pizza to determine doneness, not the top.

When I have some more disposable income, this is what I'm going to get:

http://slice.seriouseats.com/archiv...a-and-baking-steels-new-joint-pizza-oven.html

 

[thescreensavers]

http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/

Once I saw people discussing cross section cuts of the crust I almost lost it.

Thats the Pizza forum to be

 

[thescreensavers]

dbl post

 

[sdifox]

When I have some more disposable income, this is what I'm going to get:

http://slice.seriouseats.com/archiv...a-and-baking-steels-new-joint-pizza-oven.html

why not just build a real one? Or a gas oriented one and pipe in natural gas and you are cooking


http://www.traditionaloven.com/

 

[Howard]

why not just build a real one? Or a gas oriented one and pipe in natural gas and you are cooking


http://www.traditionaloven.com/

$$$

 

[sdifox]

$$$

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9lOwc1tLKU

 

[Standpoint]

I've been making homemade pizza for years, and find that a stone is pretty overrated. I do understand that it can really make a difference depending on your oven, but for most people at home a pan will do just fine. I actually use NO pan, I bake my homemade pizza directly on a rack in a pizza oven.

 

[BUTCH1]

Was it one of the porous ceramic ones?
I think that they just absorb moisture and with the extreme heat changes they deal with they just don't last. They are pretty cheap though so, no worries really.

Yea, I got it as a gift so I think it was a cheapie..