Pizza Stone Bread Baking Stone 30 x 38cm Rectangular Stone for Oven and Grill Innovative Double-Sided Built-in Design with 4 Handles Pizza Stones

It’s normal that pizza stones will absorb oil from the pizza because pizza stones are made from porous materials. This is the same reason why you don’t use soap to clean them because the stone will absorb it and will affect future pizzas. I use baking paper between the pizza and the stone just to keep it clean as much as possible. I also think it’s more hygienic to use baking paper , BUT be careful because the baking paper will start BURNING in < 5min at such high temperatures… So what I do is: 1) I either trim the paper making a circle just enough to cover the bottom of the pizza, maybe leave 1 cm from the edge, otherwise if there’s lot of excess paper it will start burning, or 2) I don’t trim the paper but I remove it as soon as the crust is set and keep baking the pizza directly onto the stone. I usually do number 2, so that when I remove the paper I then put my toppings, like eggs for a fiorentina pizza, otherwise the toppings will burn while the base is still not cooked. This is why it’s also important to do the dough as thin as possible aka Neapolitan style. The stone can get EXTREMELY HOT because you’re supposed to be heating it in the oven for at least 45-60min before putting your pizza… So once you place your pizza on it, it shouldn’t take long to cook, so don’t leave the pizza unattended, as you might have to check in less than 5min. The stone isn’t that heavy, my Dutch oven for my artisanal bread is much much heavier. I’m overall happy with my purchase. It obviously looks nice when it’s new, but again it’s perfectly normal for it to have oil spots over time… Pizza tastes better at home with this than takeaway.

Great homemade pizza. It's a massive stone. Don't necessarily go for the biggest size. A smaller one may be enough.

Have used this in my pizza oven and its cooking pizza top and bottom just perfect. Good Product

Bought this to experiment with making homemade pizza. I paid a little more than I budgeted for but the stone has helped me make some excellent pizza so it was well worth it. It does take some practice and experimentation but I feel I'm approaching restaurant quality pizza with it!Good things:* Excellent quality. The stone is thick and sturdy.* The instructions are excellent.* Well packaged.* Makes exceptional pizza (when used correctly!)Bad Things:* A little pricey but you get what you pay for.Tips:* I used Gennaro Contaldo's dough recipe. There is a video on youtube for this which is excellent.* For best results I heat the oven on max for an hour before putting the pizza in. The last ten minutes of this is with the grill on* Oven cook for 5 - 7 minutes.* The stone will be super hot so I'd recommend using a floured pizza peel to get the pizza in/out.* I bought some silicone baking mats and they made getting the pizza in/out much easier.Good luck!

Let’s say this stone makes pizzas brilliantly only issue for me is the next to impossible task of cleaning it and keeping it looking as new as possible. Any greasy marks that happen to get onto your stone bake in and are impossible to shift

It does the job. The pizza is nicely cooked. I still haven't tried to put it on direct flame... In a bit conscious about it. But it's fine with indirect heat.

Good size pizza stone. ‘Just’ fits in my oven. Used about 10 times on my gas bbq and twice in my oven. Both set to Max temperature. put pizza stone in when oven/bbq is cold or it will probably crack. Once it’s as hot as it will go give it a few extra mins to be sure the stone is as hot as it can get and then put pizza on it. Takes Between 4 and 5 mins from my experience.Gives very crispy base and nicely cooked meat/veg and melted cheese. I still end up with slightly burnt crusts but that’ll be down to cooking temp and time so can’t complain about that.Says only rinse with water, no detergent, so looks messy after a few uses, but gets plenty hot enough to burn off any germs or anything that could be on it.Overall, makes the £2.50 Asda ‘make your own’ pizzas taste amazing. Watch you don’t burn your mouth!

Great for the stonebaked taste and cleaned with just water. Not the cheapest but definitely worth buying if you have a gas grill already. Forget the tabletop pizza ovens,just put this in your gas barbecue and save your money.

Bonne pierre malgré le fait qu'elle se salisse fort selon ce qui déborde de la pâte.

Eigentlich wollte ich den Pizzastein zu Ostern verschenken. Die Verpackung kann man sogar direkt als Geschenkbox nehmen. Aber dann war ich doch zu neugierig und habe schnell mal selbst was auf dem Grill gebacken. Einfach Stein auf dem Grill vorheizen, Flammkuchen / Pizza drauflegen und Deckel schließen. Nach paar Minuten war den Boden kross und der Käse goldig. Für das Erste mal ist mir der Flammkuchen sehr gelungen. Danach kann man sofort die nächste Pizza backen. Fazit: Wunderbares Geschenk oder zum selbst Pizza machen.

Erfüllt die Erwartung. Gutes Vorheizen (> 30min) im Ofen ist wichtig!

Full disclaimer, I am not an expert cook! If I was, I probably wouldn't be making so many frozen pizzas!I have owned a small pizza zone for many years, I believe it was from Pampered Chef. It has served me well and we still use it frequently. I wanted a second one for when we were doing two different frozen pizzas is a short amount of time. This one looked like a decent stone at a nice price, so I ordered it.Within minutes of unpacking, it I started to question the purchase. The instructions said you had ot preheat the stone for up to 60 minutes. 60 minutes! The whole point of frozen pizzas is ease and relative quickness. They take between 12 and 18 minutes to book depending on the brand. But I have to preheat for 3-4 times that just to use the stone? Not what I would call efficient. Note my other pizza stone worked just fine by putting it into the oven and just letting it preheat with the oven itself.The other issue is sticking. The pizzas frequently stuck to the stone. Worse yet, if you didn't scrape off the pizza right away if would turn into a hard crust that was extremely difficult to remove. Again, I stress I am not a cook so it may have been something I was going wrong. However, my old pizza stone NEVER had this problem.Bottom line, this stone was a disappointment. I would not recommend, especially to someone just looking for something easy and efficient.

didn't have to pay a high price for this. It's good quality and we love using it. follow the instructions. .The preheating is important.