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    How to Use and Care for a Pizza Stone - The Spruce Eats

    • A pizza stone is a flat slab of stone or ceramic that sits inside your oven rack, where it soaks up and, more importantly, holds onto heat. Because unbaked pizza dough rests directly on it, the hot stone tran… See more

    How It Works

    Most of what a pizza stone does is transmit heat to the dough from underneath it. You may hear that a pizza stone produces a crispy bottom because its porous surface "absorbs mo… See more

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    How to Use A Pizza Stone

    To use a pizza stone for baking pizza, follow these steps: 1. Place your pizza stone in a cold oven. 2. Preheat to 500 F. Once the oven is preheated, so is the stone. 3. Slide the … See more

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    Caring For Your Pizza Stone

    Different manufacturers will offer their specific guidelines, but in general, what you want to do is keep it dry and store it in the oven. Pizza stones are susceptible to what's calle… See more

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    Other Uses For A Pizza Stone

    There's a common notion (and it's not entirely unreasonable) that any kitchen tool must be able to perform a variety of additional functions beyond what its name suggests. T… See more

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    How do you bake pizza with a pizza stone?
    To use a pizza stone for baking pizza, follow these steps: Place your pizza stone in a cold oven. Preheat to 500 F. Once the oven is preheated, so is the stone. Slide the pizza onto the stone. Bake until cheese is lightly browned. Remove the pizza and turn off the oven. When cool, brush the stone, don't wash it.
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