On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:53:59 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Avins >
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>On Sep 12, 10:16*am, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
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>> >"Cheryl" > wrote in message
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>> >> On 9/11/2011 8:56 PM, wrote:
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>> >>> You don't season a baking stone -- the pores must be open to cook things
>> >>> properly.
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>> >>> 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.
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>> >>> 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.
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>> >> 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.
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>> >I have never seasoned mine. *As with others, *mine lives in the oven. *When
>> >I am not using it in particular, it gives mass to heat up the oven and keeps
>> >the heat.
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>> Actually what that stone does is waste energy by having to heat it,
>> and it stores no energy used for cooking because it never gets hotter
>> than the thermostat setting and any retained heat is wasted by being
>> retained after what's cooked is removed from the oven. *Only the
>> imbeciles who failed grade school science think so-called pizza stones
>> do something, well they separate the dollars from those with more
>> dollars than brain cells.
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>Half right -- sort of. The stone saves no energy because, as you
>pointed out, it has to be heated. It doesn't waste much, because it
>holds the temperature up when the flame (or element) turns off, so
>it's pretty much a wash. It does store energy because of the
>thermostat's hysteresis.

I'm not interested in hearing about your hysterectomy, people are
eating here.

The stone wastes all the energy used to heat it and it wastes all the
energy retained after the cooking is completed as it dissapates for no
use other than to warm the space. But more importantly those stones
do absolutely nothing to improve pizza baking... so it's a lose/lose
all around including the cost of the stone.