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Brooklyn1

Cheryl > wrote:
>On 9/11/2011 8:56 PM, wrote:
>
>> You don't season a baking stone -- the pores must be open to cook things
>> properly.
>>
>> You dont clean a baking stone, other than to scrape off any obvious burned-on
>> black stuff. The heat of the oven does short-term cleaning under normal
>> conditions.
>>
>> The stone will be cleaned ultimately during the oven's self-cleaning cycle --
>> after which you just wipe off any grey power with a damp sponge.
>
>First, I don't have a self cleaning oven. Second, the instructions said
>to season it. I'm a little surprised everyone is saying not to when the
>instructions say to do so.

Then why didn't the instructions say how???
Call the company and ask, each of those stone companys use different
composites so I doubt there are universal instructions. Instructions
may even be at their web site.