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Baking stones should easily handle the heat of your oven. Problems with thermal shock occur with rapid temp changes. If you are putting a cold stone in a hot oven, the fracture may happen then, but not actually crack open until the stone cools. Likewise, removing a stone from a hot oven is not the best idea. I build a mini oven with two stones and firebrick in my grill. I heat the assembly up slowly over about 30 min and eventually start baking at around 650 F. When finished, I leave everything in place and let the whole assembly cool down. It takes about 3 hours before I can handle the firebrick. I’ll probably continue to use this setup even after I build my WFO when I just want to pop out a few pizze. I have used these baking stones dozens of times and only see two very small fractures on the edge of one.
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Broken baking stones
I now have two broken baking stones.- I'm cooking pizza in a wood-fired oven
- The floor is flaking so I put a baking stone in the oven and cook on it
- The baking stone is fine during firing, fine during cooking, and then cracks sometime after cooking.
PS I'm not sure where this question should go so I'm cross-posting:
- Oven Management/Firing Your Oven
- Brick Oven Cooking/Get Cooking
- Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart/Pizza Stone BakingTags: None
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