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Default Unglazed quarry tiles

On Dec 23, 3:02*pm, Chemo the Clown > wrote:
> On Dec 23, 12:30*pm, notbob > wrote:
>
> > Has anyone seen this legendary mythical creature?

>
> > I've been searching high and low. *More specifically, Lowe's, which
> > countless baking web-sites swear is the world-wide purveyor of dirt
> > cheap red unglazed quarry tiles. *NOT! *Called 3 Lowe's and been told
> > ...."...no, but we can order them". *Likewise Home depot and half
> > dozen lame small businesses. *I can only suspect the "line my oven for
> > under $5" is a blantant outright lie perpetrated by snarky bread geek
> > wannabe's wishing to impress clueless sourdough wannebe's like myself.

>
> > nb *

>
> There's very little demand for unglazed tiles. Oh...take an anger
> management class...it'll help.


They are mostly for commercial applications. I remember replacing
some in the production area of a donut shop almost 30 years ago, and
they were in every kitchen in the stores I used to run cleaning crews
in. The advantage of them is that they hold up to caustic industrial
degreasers.

--Bryan