On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:16:01 -0400, Brooklyn1 wrote:


> 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.


Wow, never heard of thermal mass, eh?

Put 100 bricks in your oven. Heat (no, not preheat, you ****ing dipwad!)
to 400.

The 'Preheat' setting cranks the oven to max until the desired temp is
reached. This is why Pyrex recommends putting their wares in a
"pre-heated" oven.

Now that you have 100 bricks in your oven and the thermostat set at 350,
just wait.

Yes, you will have wasted a lot of energy in getting those bricks up to
temp, but you can cook pizza all night long! Even into the morning.

Now picture the standard electric oven with a simple baking stone in it.
The electric oven works with a thermostat that lets the temperature fall to
40 degrees below the set temp and rise to 40 degrees above the set temp
before switching on/off.

The stone is nothing more than thermal mass. Please google this if you're
not understanding the concept yet.

For a simplified explanation, it's the reason bottled beer stays cold
longer than canned beer. Thermal mass.

TFM® (Thermal ****ing Mass)