this is a prime reason why your kill file is your friend, Lee
"Kalmia" > wrote in message
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On Sep 12, 10:16 am, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:03:12 +0100, "Ophelia" >
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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 obvious
> >>> burned-on
> >>> black stuff. The heat of the oven does short-term cleaning under
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> >>> The stone will be cleaned ultimately during the oven's self-cleaning
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> >>> 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. When
> >I am not using it in particular, it gives mass to heat up the oven and
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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.


(lip quivering) Now you've got frugally oriented me wondering about
this. I hope some others weigh in on this.