Kalmia wrote:
> On Sep 12, 10:16 am, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:03:12 +0100, "Ophelia"
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>>> "Cheryl" > wrote in message
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>>>> On 9/11/2011 8:56 PM, wrote:
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>>>>> You don't season a baking stone -- the pores must be open to cook
>>>>> things properly.
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>>>>> You dont clean a baking stone, other than to scrape off any
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>>>>> black stuff. The heat of the oven does short-term cleaning under
>>>>> normal conditions.
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>>>>> The stone will be cleaned ultimately during the oven's
>>>>> self-cleaning cycle --
>>>>> after which you just wipe off any grey power with a damp sponge.
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>>>> First, I don't have a self cleaning oven. Second, the instructions
>>>> said to season it. I'm a little surprised everyone is saying not
>>>> to when the instructions say to do so.
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>>> I have never seasoned mine. As with others, mine lives in the oven.
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>>> I am not using it in particular, it gives mass to heat up the oven
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>> Actually what that stone does is waste energy by having to heat it,
>> and it stores no energy used for cooking because it never gets hotter
>> than the thermostat setting and any retained heat is wasted by being
>> retained after what's cooked is removed from the oven. Only the
>> imbeciles who failed grade school science think so-called pizza
>> stones do something, well they separate the dollars from those with
>> more dollars than brain cells.
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> (lip quivering) Now you've got frugally oriented me wondering about
> this. I hope some others weigh in on this.

Eh... I have no stone and am not going to get one. I still make pizza. No
problems with it.