My pizza stone broke while I was making pizza! What gives?
I bought a pizza stone last summer. I read somewhere that it takes oven heat so well that you can leave it in the oven at all times, even if you're using the oven and not necessarily the stone. Yesterday afternoon I was making a couple of pies in my oven and as I was peering in through the glass vision panel, I watched my pizza stone crack! It split into two pieces with a pie blazing away on it. It was a ceramic pizza stone. I thought it was virtually indestructible! No?
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5 Comments:
Sorry about your stone...I've had mine for a little over five years and it is one of my favorite kitchen items! If your pizza was frozen, the contact between the hot stone and the frozen pizza could have caused the split (I think I've heard that somewhere).
Lauren at 11:46PM on 07/01/07
How long had you had it? Repeated cycles of heating and cooling can, over time, cause faults to form. It's also possible that the stone was dropped at some point, a minute crack formed, and the repeated stress of use eventually just cracked it.
thepictsie at 11:56PM on 07/01/07
Can't say why exactly yours broke. After going through a couple myself, I went for a Fibrament stone and have had NO problems with MUCH better performance ever since. They are a bit more expensive (price includes shipping) but, imho, worth it.
http://www.bakingstone.com/index.php
grampart at 10:52AM on 07/02/07
Same thing happened to ours, while heating up in the oven it split completely in half. Ours is the Stoneware brand, how about yours? We still use it, it has a little circular rest with handles that holds it. I guess we'll keep using until it is no longer functional, because since it is less than a year old it's hard for us to justify buying a new one.
Jeana at 1:32PM on 07/02/07
It was just a cheap Farberware one that came with a little circular rest, too. Could that have been the problem? I guess it would not be surprising to assume that, much like all kitchen utensils, there's a lot of variation in quality and that I'll just have to buy more carefully next time! I'll check out the Fibrament one for sure. Thanks everyone!
JustNancy at 2:11PM on 07/02/07