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what can i buy at Home Depot to use as my pizza stone?
i occasionally eat a frozen pizza. only from trader's joes. the 3-cheese with fresh arugula poured over the top is a decent way to avoid cooking.
last pie..i tossed on the cold pie, onto my hot stone..it cracked cleanly in half. what else can i use. unglazed yard tile is full of LEAD right? a good pizza stone is stupid expensive. it looks like a round house tile. help?
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Don't know what you could use from Home Depot, but have you ever washed your pizza stone?
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Why not buy an aluminum pizza pan?
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I don't think anything is made with lead anymore.
I'd pick up a remnant granite slab from Import Tile in Berkeley. I'll cut it for you to whatever size you want. KT
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I want to go to a scrap steel yard and buy a 1/2" thick plate of steel to make a woodfired out side oven out of!
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unglazed quarry tile.
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I wouldn't buy ANYTHING at home depot!
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What about one of the ovesize granite tiles?
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I a pizza stone is an unglazed clay? Not grantie of even a glazed tile. You may be able togo to a local pottery store the kind where you finish the pieces and they fire them and get what you need.
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I must not be doing it right. I just toss them on the middle rack....
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Vash,
Trader Joe's is a cool place. I really miss not having one around. With respect to stones, I am not sure what your price range is. So here are some ideas: - Bed Bath and Beyond - Amazon - Pampered Chef - Craigslist If you are going to go the home tile route, you will be looking for something like terra cotta or equivalent. It must be unglazed tile (very important). I would suggest that you find some tile/pottery stores in your area. Tell them what you want and I am sure they will hook you up with something. |
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Christ, you're eating a frozen pizza. Cardboard, with ketchup on top... Stick it on a cookie sheet, or on the rack directly, it won't matter. It will still taste like cardboard, with ketchup.
If you want to get all exotic, you can play with the rack height, or put the thing in the oven before the preheat is completed and the heating elements are still glowing red-hot. Better yet, make a batch of sauce and a pile of dough. Stock up on a little cheese, pepperoni, sausage... When the urge strikes, make your own pizza. Takes no time at all, tastes like real pizza... and it doesn't have to be cooked on a pizza stone, either. Many years ago, when I was a pizza cook at a high-end pizza restaurant, I cooked thousands of the lousy things and not a single one was cooked on a bloody pizza stone... Cheers, JR |
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i usually make my own pizza..but somedays..i have no time.
i use the stone for the homemade pies and the trader joes one. what is interesting..i have been with my wife for 10 years. we have never had a pizza delivered. we have had one pick up pie, about 6 years ago. that TJ pizza is better, by a long shot.
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I picked up a $10 stone from Target for use on my Weber.
Seasoned it in the oven, made pizzas on the grill and liked it so much I use it in the oven almost daily for all kinds of stuff.
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Would a piece of slate work?
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Your problem was putting an ice cold item on a very warm item...I won't say anymore about the sagacity of that move.
You can buy a pizza or baking stone for very little money at Wally World or Target...etc...so why eve dick around with getting all creative...if it braks it breaks and U replace it. I just leave my baking stone in the oven...it is called heat retention, and I have never had a prblem with it in a decade or more.
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My room mate had a pampered chef Pizza stone. I loved that thing, I don't particularly miss having a room mate, but I miss that stone
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