primitives discuss cracked pizza stones

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

The disasters that happen in primitive kitchens.

First up, Grandma:

hippywife  (1000+ posts)        Sat Aug-15-09 06:17 PM
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This week's kitchen disasters.

I broke my enameled dutch oven and my pizza stone this week. My dutch oven was on top of my baking cabinet and I was just trying to inch the cabinet over a wee bit and it fell off the back. Not only chipped but cracked.

This morning, I got up to find my pizza stone sitting on the stove top in three pieces. Not sure how that happened since I didn't even use it last night.

By the way, this is one of those rare times where Grandma forgot to use the smiley waving at franksolich.

japple  (1000+ posts)      Sat Aug-15-09 06:59 PM
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1. Cats? They're always my first suspects. Sorry for your disasters, and hope you'll find suitable replacements soon AT BARGAIN PRICES!!

hippywife  (1000+ posts)        Sat Aug-15-09 09:35 PM
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3. They weren't expensive items but still at $60 for the dutch oven and $25 for the stone, they weren't cheap according to my meager budget, either. I doubt the cats did it. I'm thinking husband, but inadvertently. Oh well, I'll still keep him. LOL And the dutch oven was caused by me being lazy.

Uh-oh.  One suspects Grandma and hippyhubby had a fight of some sort, if he's going around the house breaking things.

The sparkling husband primitive who, like all men, nightly pitches his tent one day's march closer to the mausoleum:

Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)        Sat Aug-15-09 08:27 PM
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2. Both of my sons have had pizza stones spontaneously crack.

We never figured out how or why.

Some dark mysterious force maybe.

hippywife  (1000+ posts)        Sat Aug-15-09 09:36 PM
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4. I think I'm just going to keep the pieces since there are only three and they are large and use them anyway under my cake pan which I've been using to bake my bread anyway, just sitting it on the stone.

Been wondering where you were. Hope all is well and happy with you and Sparkly.

Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)        Sat Aug-15-09 10:39 PM
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5. Hey! Hey! Hey!
 
We're doing fine. Its been a very busy summer for us both.

Especially busy the sparkling husband primitive's wife with a chemistry set.

Callalily  (1000+ posts)      Sun Aug-16-09 08:08 AM
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6. Oh my gosh!

If you are like me, I tend to have "favorite" pots and pans for particular recipes. Hope you can replace them soon, at bargain prices to boot.

Several years ago I bought a pizza stone from Pampered Chef (you know how expensive their stuff is) and it broke within a few weeks. I asked for a replacement and was denied b/c I did not have my receipt. The person who "gave the party" verified my purchase, but the Pampered Chef people were sticking to their policy.

Needless to say I never purchased anything from them again!

hippywife  (1000+ posts)        Sun Aug-16-09 08:47 AM
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7. That's where my stone came from.

I had one of theirs for years without any issues at all until I dropped something on it and it shattered.

I don't know that I will replace either for the moment. I stopped using the dutch oven for bread and since I don't usually braise things in the oven, I don't see an immediate need for it. We use propane and there is no way I'm leaving my oven run for hours on end for something. That's why when I made that Sunday Gravy, a.k.a. modified Italian Pot Roast, I transferred it into my preheated crock pot after all the ingredients were in and came to a boil.

I had to take the stone out of the oven. I had been leaving it in there and it was cooking causing my pizza crusts to stick to a pan they had never stuck to before I started leaving it in there. The suspicion that was the cause of the problem was born out Friday when I took it out and no sticking of the pizza crust.

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Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)        Sat Aug-15-09 08:27 PM
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2. Both of my sons have had pizza stones spontaneously crack.

We never figured out how or why.

Some dark mysterious force maybe.

...Probably called thermal expansion. DUmmie most likely didn't dry (or clean) the stone correctly after last use and left part of it wet - and / or  - heated it unevenly.

[GOBUCKS]

I must live in the only home in America without a pizza stone.
Never heard of 'em.
If they're important, I'll trust Pizza Hut to hang on to mine.
In the case of pizza stones, DUmmies have stuff that I don't.

[thundley4]

I must live in the only home in America without a pizza stone.
Never heard of 'em.
If they're important, I'll trust Pizza Hut to hang on to mine.
In the case of pizza stones, DUmmies have stuff that I don't.

I know what they are, but don't have one.  We use a Pizzazz pizza maker. They work for home made or frozen pizzas , but don't heat up the kitchen in the summer.

[franksolich]

.....DUmmies have stuff that I don't.

You and me both, including their diseases.

[Tucker]

I must live in the only home in America without a pizza stone.
Never heard of 'em.
If they're important, I'll trust Pizza Hut to hang on to mine.
In the case of pizza stones, DUmmies have stuff that I don't.

I ain't got one. Never saw the need for one.

[miskie]

I have one - I use it for everything but pizza. Its never given me an inch of trouble.

I can only suspect it was allowed to soak in a sink, and then not properly dried. I abuse my stone - I don't season it. I stick it in the dishwasher and let it dry completely standing on its edge.

Its about 11 years old now, no problems at all.

[Flame]

I love my pizza stone...I've had it for at least 10 years.   I use it to heat all kinds of stuff in the oven, as well as for making pizza.

[docstew]

I refuse to pay $20+ for a pizza stone when I can get as good if not better results from a $2 ceramic tile that I can use for many different things.  This is why the DUmmies are always complaining about tight budgets, they spend too much for items, buy overpriced "organic" foods, oh, and they don't have jobs.

[BEG]

I had a pizza stone (Pampered Chef) and it cracked one time when my son was heating up some pizza rolls.

[GOBUCKS]

My God, I have to run out and buy a pizza stone! I feel awful about it. I still
have no idea what one looks like or what you use it for, but I'm clearly in a deprived minority
in not having one. It feels the same as if I didn't have a DVD player, or a cell phone.
I thought it must just be something that just DUmmies have, like crab lice or electric
doobie rollers, but I was obviously mistaken.

If I get one, it will need to run on house current.
I love to buy stuff.

[AllosaursRus]

I must live in the only home in America without a pizza stone.
Never heard of 'em.
If they're important, I'll trust Pizza Hut to hang on to mine.
In the case of pizza stones, DUmmies have stuff that I don't.

We have a place called Second Avenue Pizza that keeps mine for me! Making one's own pizza is un-American in my opinion. Hence the reason DUmmies have pizza stones!

[GOBUCKS]

We have a place called Second Avenue Pizza that keeps mine for me! Making one's own pizza is un-American in my opinion. Hence the reason DUmmies have pizza stones!

I have no intention of ever making a pizza. Sometimes I do like those little frozen DiGiorno
pan pizzas with rising crust for lunch. But they come out perfect without a "pizza stone". Does
the stone go on top of the pizza, or under it? Oh,well, I'm going to get one anyway. Maybe some
day I'll take up curling.