baking stone
Anybody know where to get a smaller baking stone that will fit a TT oven?
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96Bounder30E wrote:
Old-Biscuit wrote:
Yep..12" X 12" unglazed tile
Unglazed so you aren't sucking fumes when the glazing burns off
Ceramic tiles are kiln fired for 20 hours at 2500° F........Do you think the glazing is going to burn off at a 350° for 45 minutes?
BTW......Ceramic glaze is powdered silica sand......AKA....glass.....I don't think I've ever had a Pyrex glass dish burn away in my oven belching toxic fumes....
That's true. The reason for unglazed baking stones is that theoretically they hold moisture and do a better job of browning and producing a nice crust.
I haven't been able to detect the difference in baking yeast products on the cast iron. They are now pushing baking steels which hints that any mass that is capable of holding heat and therefore stabilizing the temperature might work.
I can't comment on the stone/cookie outcome however.Old-Biscuit wrote:
Yep..12" X 12" unglazed tile
Unglazed so you aren't sucking fumes when the glazing burns off
Ceramic tiles are kiln fired for 20 hours at 2500° F........Do you think the glazing is going to burn off at a 350° for 45 minutes?
BTW......Ceramic glaze is powdered silica sand......AKA....glass.....I don't think I've ever had a Pyrex glass dish burn away in my oven belching toxic fumes....- I got mine here. Any size or shape (almost)
baking stones donn0128 wrote:
96Bounder30E wrote:
donn0128 wrote:
UN-glazed floor tile from Lowes, Home Depot or any flooring store or Pampered Chef should still sell pizza stones. Be sure it is UN-glazed
why do you say... UN-glazed?
Because glazed floor tiles tend to explode, sometimes with disasterous results. An unglazed tile is cheap easy to find and very durable.
Yup and it also doubles as a pizza stone. Of course it's less expensive as well. Should you really feel like multitasking the tile can be used under a small portable fire pit.- Cheap/effective/convenient solution is the Lowes/HD tile mentioned above. Hard to beat.
- Amazon is where I got mine. The stone I got was 14"x15" and fit in my sanibels oven. But they make smaller ones for toaster ovens.
magnusfide wrote:
We use our cast iron griddle.
The latest craze is baking steels. They are basically a flat piece of finished steel costing $100+. I bake all my artisan bread on a Lodge 14" pizza pan. I also use it for pizza of course, preheated with the oven and used in place of a stone.
The Lodge is more expensive now I believe, but mine was $35 dollars. It's tough, it browns the bottom of yeast breads as well as any stone and it will outlast me.
The griddle would work well also when it's beg enough.96Bounder30E wrote:
donn0128 wrote:
UN-glazed floor tile from Lowes, Home Depot or any flooring store or Pampered Chef should still sell pizza stones. Be sure it is UN-glazed
why do you say... UN-glazed?
Because glazed floor tiles tend to explode, sometimes with disasterous results. An unglazed tile is cheap easy to find and very durable.- We use our cast iron griddle.
- Got ours in WalMart. Hard to find as they only had one model, so it did not "stick out" on the shelf. It was in housewares among the small kitchen "gadgets."
