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Bloggers on Pizza Stones

admin — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:24:01 +0000

These folks are doin it, and doin it and doin it well in regards to pizza stones.

Check out their posts:

Keri @ Dinner Diary’s post on reaching pizza perfection. Toppings sound excellent and she is indeed rocking the pizza stone. The pizza she featured in this post was topped with chilli, anchovies, capers, lemon juice and lemon zest…YUM http://dinnerdiary.org/2009/08/07/the-quest-for-perfect-pizza/

Irene @ ConfessionsOfATart details making a pizza from scratch, dough and all, in her post on Whole Wheat Pizza with Asparagus and Purple Potatoes. The pizza looks delicious, not entirely sure about asparagus and potato, but I’d give it a shot!

Working with hot Pizza Stones

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:56:26 +0000

Ive long been curious how to deal with the heat of the pizza stone. Everyone says you MUST slowly heat the stone to prevent cracking, but heating your baking stone to 500 degrees then laying your pizza on it always seemed dangerous to me.

Well, *drumroll please*, the
http://annies-eats.com/2009/07/24/greek-pizza/

Baking Stones as Heat Regulators

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:37:49 +0000

In doing research around pizza and baking stones, I’ve found folks have a variety of uses for them. This morning I stumbled across Xplicit Sweetness’ blog where she mentions using her All Clad pizza stone as a temperature regulator for her gas oven. The baking stone keeps the heat distribution in the oven more even, allowing better results in her baking experiments! See the full post here: http://xplicitsweetness.blogspot.com/2008/05/few-of-my-favorite-things.html

Caring For Your Pizza Stone

admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:15:14 +0000

Pizza Stones can be a great addition to any kitchen due to their versatility but, because of their properties, there are a few specific areas to watch for in caring for your stone.

Tips for protecting your pizza stone:

Stone Storage – Make sure you store your stone on a flat surface. Most pizza tones are made of durable materials but, much like normal tile, they can easily break if stored on an uneven surface.
Pizza Stone Cleaning – Pizza Stones are typically porous to assist in drawing moisture out of the pizza dough. Because of this, they tend to absorb any type of moisture you put on them. This is becomes a significant problem if you wash your stone with soap as the cleaning agents will be absorbed by the stone. Typically a quick wipe of a paper towel will be enough to clean your pizza stone, though a clean brush or sponge and warm water can be used on particularly stubborn stains. If you find that its difficult to clean your stone after use, try sprinkling the stone with corn meal before placing the dough on it.
Pizza Stones Recipes – Because of the pizza stone’s porous nature, you must be careful what you cook on your stone. You should limit usage of the stone to cooking dough for pizza and bread. Do not use your stone to make cookies or cook any type of dough with a lot of oil in it, the stone will soak up the fat and will introduce that flavor into future doughs cooked on the stone.