On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 14:18:46 -0500, "Dee Randall" > wrote:

>I have not thought of that previously, but a pizza can really destroy nice
>clean stones that one uses for bread.

Destroy? You must be using some really potent pepperoni...

My stone, which never comes out of the oven, sometimes has a few barely
detectable stains on it until going through the next self-cleaning sycle, but
nothing that affects baking.

But if you're really paranoid about barely visible stains 8, every bake stone
I've owned has two sides -- simply reserve one pristine side for baking, and
normally keep it downward in the oven.

-- Larry