Pizza stones can be made to varying thicknesses and from a variety of materials such as condensed sand or terra cotta. A pizza stone can break, so care should be taken to avoid dropping or knocking it.
2. Pizza stone
Pizza can be cooked on a baking sheet, but a pizza stone is 100 times better; it gives the pizza a wonderfully crispy crust. Just be sure to preheat the stone for 30 minutes before cooking the pizza on it.
pizza stone: A clay or ceramic disk used for cooking pizza. The stone is heated to a high temperature, and the pizza is placed directly on top of the stone.
poach: To cook foods in a simmering, not boiling, liquid.
Pizza in the oven: Place a pizza stone on the lowest rack; preheat oven to 450 degrees F for at least 20 minutes.
To get a crisp, brown crust, bake bread on a heated bread or pizza stone sprinkled with cornmeal. Slide the loaf on and off with a wooden bread peel (paddle). Cool the stone in the oven before removing.
baking stone - Also referred to as a pizza stone. Unglazed ceramic, clay, or stone tiles that allows for high temperature and dry heat, which is necessary for crisp crusts when making breads and pizzas.
Baking Stone - Also called a pizza stone, an unglazed ceramic, clay, or stone disc about ¾ of a inch thick, which allows for high temperature and dry heat, which is necessary for crisp crusts when making flatbreads, pizzas, calzones, etc.
Bread loaves may be baked free-form on a greased baking sheet or a pizza stone, sprinkled with cornmeal. Cornmeal will prevent the bread dough from sticking to the pizza stone. (see baking stone, see mold) ...
Items to be baked are then placed directly on the baking stone in the oven. Also known as a pizza stone. Baking tiles are used like a baking stone, but are thick, unglazed quarry tiles 8 to 12 inches square.
A terrific solution for those of us who have been deprived of restaurant pizza. I top this crust with garlic butter, parmesan & mozzarella cheeses and have garlic bread! This crust turns out best when made on a pizza stone." ...
 See also: Stone, Pizza, Kitchen, Bread, Baking
  
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