On Apr 4, 3:07*pm, Jim Elbrecht > wrote:
> Kalmia > wrote:
>
> -snip-
>
> >If you buy a stone, be sure you have the lifting handles, too --
> >although I can't imagine a sonte being sold without them.
>
> Mine didn't come with handles. *And if it did I would have lost them
> by now. * *I put the stone on the bottom rack of the oven several
> years ago. * *I do take it out to clean the oven, but otherwise it
> stays there.
>
> When I roast veggies, I use that rack and think it helps caramelize
> them.
>
> Jim

See, I use the handles to remove the entire stone when the pizza's
done. I'd rather cut the pizza on the stone than on the peel, which
be in splinters by now. My stone lives on the handles, except for the
rare occasion when a roasting pan won't fit level on the stone.