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Kris > wrote:

> On Mar 23, 1:17*pm, wrote:
> > I have a small pile of 1/2-to-1-inch thick pieces of irregularly-
> > shaped slabs of marble and slate, lovingly harvested from scrap piles
> > of marble and slate quarries in Vermont on various vacations :-)
> >
> > I got the idea of making appetizers like small thick-crust pizzas or
> > quiches or stuffed rolls baked on these pieces and shaped like them.
> > Even serve them "on the rocks" in, say, small baskets, so that the
> > rocks would help keep them warm.
> >
> > We bake pizzas on stones or tiles OK, right? *Anyone know if marble
> > and slate will survive a ride in the oven at baking temperatures?
> > (Gently preheated, of course.)
> >
> > --
> > Silvar Beitel
> > (very occasional poster)
>
> Sounds interesting, but I'm not sure about slate versus pizza stones.
> Might Crack?
>
> Maybe some geologist here knows more than I.
>
> Kris

It's more a danger of water pockets in the stones themselves causing
small explosions and rock shrapnel.

I'm serious.
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