Oven cooking surface- stone?

[reinadelmar]

Hi. I was wondering if traditional masonry/adobe pizza/bread ovens ever use stone as the cooking surface rather than bricks? On cooking shows on tv it looks like the pizza oven cooking surfaces are made of some kind of stone. Any thoughts on this? Thanks!

[Toomulla]

There are many ovens that have soap stone as the hearth I believe that opinion is that it gets too hot and that brick remains the best surface for pizza etc