My Pizza stone was maybe ten years old, it was a gift so I am uncertain of the quality. I used it a few times a month on average.
This evening, it broke in half as I was retrieving the pie with the peel as usual. My question is this, would cheese being under the crust have caused it to break ? For some reason the pie did not easily slid off the peel onto the stone. Some cheese popped from the top as I did the wrist jerk and I saw cheese go under the crust. Some cheese dropped to the oven floor too, which caused all windows to be opened least the smoke detector be alarmed. We withstood the smoke for 5 minutes for the pie to bake. Pizza turned out fantastic, but my stone is busted in half.