Alex Rast wrote:
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> At a lower price point:
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> Pizza stones

Admittedly I rarely use mine, but that's because hubby got low-carb
religion a couple of years ago. If you're into baking artisanal bread,
then a bread stone is really useful for getting the crust nice and
crispy dark. Pizza stone, being circular, doesn't have as much area.

What I suggest as truly useless is the item seen in (I believe) the Sur
la Table catalog some years ago: a pizza stone in a copper serving
tray, with attendant pizza cutter. The copper serving tray is just
wasteful excess IMHO. But hey, keep on giving tax cuts to the super
rich, and you'll keep on having people who need to spend their excess
cash on this stuff. They have to fill up those 42,000 square foot
houses and 10,000 s.f. kitchens.

Leila
can't help but get in a political dig