"Curly Sue" > wrote in message
>>Probably so. The instructions that came with mine specifically said
>>*not* to preheat. I never have and have always been happy with the
>>crust.
>
> Yes, the instructions did say not to preheat and I succumbed to the
> temptation of trying to compare the two methods. In my defense, there
> was a certain amount of external encouragement for preheating the
> stone to a very high temperature. :>
>
> However, because I now often make a couple of pizze, one after
> another, it would be impossible not to have it pre-heated between pies
> and I'd eventually run into the problem anyway.

I don't have a Pampered Chef stone, but I always pre-heat it. Frozen crust
has the potential for a problem, but I've not had any using a standard
dough. Of course there is an additional 70 degree temperature difference
with frozen. If we have friends for pizza, we could be making two or three
of them so it must be able to perform hot.