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Seasoning a baking stone and using it questions
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:03:12 +0100, "Ophelia" >
wrote: > >"Cheryl" > wrote in message s.com... >> On 9/11/2011 8:56 PM, wrote: >> >>> You don't season a baking stone -- the pores must be open to cook things >>> properly. >>> >>> 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 normal >>> conditions. >>> >>> 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. >> >> 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. > >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 keeps >the heat. 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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