8trackdisco
Sunday, February 18, 2018 1:10:06 PM
Who uses them?

What is the end result difference between baking a pizza on the rack vs the stone?

Are all stones ceramic?

Talk to me Goose... Geese.

MACS
Sunday, February 18, 2018 1:22:38 PM
Solido rectangular pizza stone. It's $67 at Walmart or Amazon.
Thunder.Gerbil
Sunday, February 18, 2018 1:47:36 PM
The simple explanation behind a pizza stone is that you pre-heat it with the oven and it uses this retained heat to better cook the crust, as the oven will fluctuate whereas the stone will stay fairly constant. Also, the direct contact gives a fast crusting/browning effect.

I have a lava-rock pizza stone from vision grills, and a pfaltzgraff bakery stone. Both are pretty thick and I found they worked better for me when compared to the cheap "ceramic" ones out there. I have also used a lodge cast iron griddle and it worked quite well too. I believe both lodge and wilton have specific cast iron pizza things in their lineups.

DrafterX
Sunday, February 18, 2018 1:50:49 PM
I've got the pampered chef one.. use it for almost everything... 😟
danmdevries
Sunday, February 18, 2018 2:02:42 PM
Dunno the brand, but wife makes homemade pizza every week. Usually makes one on the stone, and one on a perforated aluminum pizza plate. The one on the stone has a firmer crust baked fully through. The one on the perf sheet is floppier and the crust a bit soggy on the sauce side.
RMAN4443
Sunday, February 18, 2018 2:10:44 PM
you can also use it for frozen fries, frozen fish fillets, frozen onion-rings, etc..........leave it in the oven at all times and it will prevent rapid temperature drops when opening the door
delta1
Sunday, February 18, 2018 2:30:58 PM
phew......was afraid that eating pizza causes stones...
rumraider
Sunday, February 18, 2018 2:38:29 PM
^^^^^^ see? That’s funny right there
RMAN4443
Sunday, February 18, 2018 2:41:47 PM

phew......was afraid that eating pizza causes stones...

delta1 wrote:

sometimes getting stoned causes pizza eating🍺

Gene363
Sunday, February 18, 2018 4:09:25 PM
For years we used a pizza stone but my wife found a cast iron combination pizza plate on one side and a grill on the other side. We find it heats faster and worse better in conventional oven. We still have a stone for use in the Green Egg however, the cast iron gets too hot.
8trackdisco
Sunday, February 18, 2018 6:37:19 PM
Thank you, Brothers.
frankj1
Sunday, February 18, 2018 7:18:27 PM

I've got the pampered chef one.. use it for almost everything... 😟

DrafterX wrote:

I got one of them

DrafterX
Sunday, February 18, 2018 7:19:55 PM
I'm thinking some chocolate chip cookies on da stone would be good about now... 😟
shaun341
Sunday, February 18, 2018 7:47:36 PM
Pizza stone is useless if your reheating pizza or if your cooking frozen pizza. It comes out better on the rack.

If your making pizza at home it's worth it.

dkeage
Sunday, February 18, 2018 8:07:06 PM

Pizza stone is useless if your reheating pizza or if your cooking frozen pizza. It comes out better on the rack.

If your making pizza at home it's worth it.

shaun341 wrote:

Adults don't eat frozen pizza......🍺

Whistlebritches
Sunday, February 18, 2018 8:19:48 PM
Ours is cast iron.......I like it.Never tried a stone or ceramic
Mattie B
Sunday, February 18, 2018 8:42:38 PM
8 my boy

We use ours all the time. In fact, it stays in the oven 24-7. We never take it out.

It makes the best biscuits and cookies. You don’t have to worry about the bottoms being done too much.....Cue the TW butt jokes.

Pick one up. You will be happy you did.

Ewok126
Sunday, February 18, 2018 8:51:34 PM
I have been looking at one of these for my grill. I have been wondering the same thing and really want to try a pizza off a grill as well. I am glad you asked the question 8.
Thunder.Gerbil
Sunday, February 18, 2018 9:59:02 PM

I have been looking at one of these for my grill. I have been wondering the same thing and really want to try a pizza off a grill as well. I am glad you asked the question 8.

Ewok126 wrote:

Spend the money for a better one if you are going to use it on the grill. Or find a place that sells 1" thick fire bricks and get a bunch of them to form the area you want to put the pizza down. The thin ceramic stones tend to crack and shatter when exposed to the high direct heat of the coals or burners in a grill. If you can rig your grill to only provide indirect heat around the stone and not too close to it, you might get by with the thinner, cheaper ones.

I bought the volcanic stone just for the grill after blowing up a few lesser grade ones.

Ewok126
Monday, February 19, 2018 5:34:33 AM

Spend the money for a better one if you are going to use it on the grill. Or find a place that sells 1" thick fire bricks and get a bunch of them to form the area you want to put the pizza down. The thin ceramic stones tend to crack and shatter when exposed to the high direct heat of the coals or burners in a grill. If you can rig your grill to only provide indirect heat around the stone and not too close to it, you might get by with the thinner, cheaper ones.

I bought the volcanic stone just for the grill after blowing up a few lesser grade ones.

Thunder.Gerbil wrote:

Thank you for the info, The grill I have is an infrared commercial. Would this change the advice you have given? Here is a link so as to provide you with some info on what I am looking to use the stone on.

https://goo.gl/8PDY4w