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Old Stone Oven 14-Inch by 16-Inch Baking Stone
Let's say your kitchen doesn't have a wood burning brick oven in it, yet you love the texture of the crust from a real pizzeria. Don't despair! This stone will produce an amazingly "genuine" crust right in your own oven.
Professional pizza and traditional European bread ovens are often lined with stone or brick. This is so heat is stored up and redistributed evenly. The resulting blast of heat from the Old Stone Oven rectangular pizza stone gives bread and pizza a nice chewy crust. The rustic French tarts called galettes are also well suited to a baking stone. To use the stone, place it in a cold oven and preheat to 500 degrees for pizza, or according to the recipe for bread or galettes. The stone is made of the same material that lines blast furnaces and kilns, so it can handle ultra-high temperatures. Wait until the baking stone is entirely cooled before attempting to clean it. Let it dry completely before using again. Some discoloration will occur over time; this is natural and will not affect baking. Using baking parchment may help delay that discoloration. Do not bake cookies, turnovers or other high-fat items on the stone; the stone would absorb the fat and proceed to produce smoke and bad odors. The stone comes with a flyer that contains detailed use and cleaning instructions, as well as recipes for bread, pizza dough, and two pizza toppings. --Garland Withers
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Old Stone Oven 14-Inch by 16-Inch Baking Stone Reviews
I ordered this baking stone & waited weeks for its delivery. It would be better to buy this in a store. In addition, although the inner package said this was a fragile product, the outer box with the Amazon label was not so labeled. The packaging was not suitable for such a breakable (obviously) product since the stone was suspended from a cardboard frame with not central padding at all. When it arrived, it was broken in many pieces.
I was pretty disappointed. I was pretty excited when it finally arrived. I ordered this as a treat for myself. When I opened the box, it was broken.
I asked for a refund and going to go purchase one at a local store. It was clearly marked on the product box as "fragile" - but not on the shipping box. Who knows what the shipper did with the box during transit. Because of the snow, it took a week and a half to get here.
Worth the money. Large size and heavyweight. An excellent baking stone and it needed no break-in.
Sorry, but any High School physics student could look at the packing and tell you that it is woefully inadequate for the weight and fragility of this item. I spoke with an Amazon Rep who assured me that the damage issue has been resolved and that they were. packing these items more carefully to avoid damage. Yes, I also ignored the warning of the other reviewers who wrote in to complain that their stone arrived broken.
:-(. Myself or Amazon. The item is packed in a box that only supports the outside edges of the stone and provides virtually NO SUPPORT underneath or above the stone to keep it from shifting inside the box. It is very fragile and Amazon does an atrocious job of. protecting the item for shipping. Maybe their next idea of improvement will be. My recommendation, do not buy this stone. to put small rocks in the box.
My stone also arrived broken. If this is their idea of an improvement, I can't even imagine how poorly packed it was before. Amazon is going to have to do some serious groveling to resolve this issue for me. Thus, it breaks. They do a miserable job of packing this item for shipping. I'm not sure who I am more annoyed with.
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