My stone has smooth surface on one side but a raised pattern on the other.
If I bake bread on the stone I just put some baking paper down first. After
nearly 15 years, the most we have done is scrape off the obvious spills. I
have to say that it never occurred to me to clean it!

"pltrgyst" > wrote in message
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> 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