On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 15:33:26 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
> wrote:

>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.


Too heavy for me. I take it out with the peel and slip it off onto a
cutting board. But I'd still eat *your* pizza-- and I'd
appreciate the extra effort you went through to move that stone.<g>

Jim