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Old Stone Oven 14-Inch by 16-Inch Baking Stone | 
| Brand: Old Stone
Category: Kitchen
Buy New: $49.95
New (2) from $49.95
Rating:  73 reviews
Sales Rank: 498
Color: natural clay
Shipping Weight (lbs): 11.2
Dimensions (in): 18.1 x 17.4 x 3.3
MPN: 4467
Model: 4467
UPC: 761995044683
EAN: 0761995044676
ASIN: B0000E1FDA
Release Date: September 18, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Pizza stone duplicates crispy pizzeria-style crust | | • | Firebrick construction offers superior heat retention and distribution | | • | Flat surface releases pizza or bread quickly and easily | | • | Durable texture resists cracking caused by high temperatures | | • | Measures 14 by 16 inches; includes recipe collection |
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Product Description
Let's say your kitchen doesn't have a wood burning brick oven in it, yet you love the texture of the crust from a real pizzeria. Don't despair! This stone will produce an amazingly "genuine" crust right in your own oven.
Amazon.com Review
Professional pizza and traditional European bread ovens are often lined with stone or brick. This is so heat is stored up and redistributed evenly. The resulting blast of heat from the Old Stone Oven rectangular pizza stone gives bread and pizza a nice chewy crust. The rustic French tarts called galettes are also well suited to a baking stone. To use the stone, place it in a cold oven and preheat to 500 degrees for pizza, or according to the recipe for bread or galettes. The stone is made of the same material that lines blast furnaces and kilns, so it can handle ultra-high temperatures. Wait until the baking stone is entirely cooled before attempting to clean it. Let it dry completely before using again. Some discoloration will occur over time; this is natural and will not affect baking. Using baking parchment may help delay that discoloration. Do not bake cookies, turnovers or other high-fat items on the stone; the stone would absorb the fat and proceed to produce smoke and bad odors. The stone comes with a flyer that contains detailed use and cleaning instructions, as well as recipes for bread, pizza dough, and two pizza toppings. --Garland Withers
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| Customer Reviews: Read 68 more reviews...
 A long wait for a broken product January 6, 2009
punkingee (Davis, CA United States)
I ordered this baking stone & waited weeks for its delivery. When it arrived, it was broken in many pieces. The packaging was not suitable for such a breakable (obviously) product since the stone was suspended from a cardboard frame with not central padding at all. In addition, although the inner package said this was a fragile product, the outer box with the Amazon label was not so labeled. It would be better to buy this in a store.
Amazon - Please mark it "FRAGILE" December 30, 2008
Vicki A. Curtis (Stanwood, WA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I ordered this as a treat for myself. Because of the snow, it took a week and a half to get here. I was pretty excited when it finally arrived. When I opened the box, it was broken. It was clearly marked on the product box as "fragile" - but not on the shipping box. Who knows what the shipper did with the box during transit. I was pretty disappointed. I asked for a refund and going to go purchase one at a local store.
 Excellent, heavy baking stone December 27, 2008
FrankietheC (Fort Davis, Texas)
I've had this stone for roughly 1.5 years now and it's held up to a lot of use. It's quite large ... nearly fills an oven rack ... so making large loaves or large pizza crusts are easy. Being very thick and heavy, the stone cooks evenly. Do note that the stone is quite heavy ... roughly 11 lbs ... but the little "feet" on the bottom make it easier to hold onto and move around (when cold, of course.) I'm quite pleased with this stone (even more pleased that the price was $10 less when I bought it compared to the $40 listed in 12/2008!
Square baking stone December 26, 2008
T. Hill (Central Illinois, USA)
An excellent baking stone and it needed no break-in. Large size and heavyweight. Worth the money.
It arrived broken December 24, 2008
Vino toujours (San Luis Obispo, Ca)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Yes, I also ignored the warning of the other reviewers who wrote in to complain that their stone arrived broken.
My stone also arrived broken!!! :-(
I'm not sure who I am more annoyed with. Myself or Amazon.
I spoke with an Amazon Rep who assured me that the damage issue has been resolved and that they were
packing these items more carefully to avoid damage.
Sorry, but any High School physics student could look at the packing and tell you that it is woefully inadequate for the weight and fragility of this item.
If this is their idea of an improvement, I can't even imagine how poorly packed it was before.
The item is packed in a box that only supports the outside edges of the stone and provides virtually NO SUPPORT underneath or above the stone to keep it from shifting inside the box. Thus, it breaks...
They do a miserable job of packing this item for shipping. Maybe their next idea of improvement will be
to put small rocks in the box.
Amazon is going to have to do some serious groveling to resolve this issue for me.
My recommendation, do not buy this stone. It is very fragile and Amazon does an atrocious job of
protecting the item for shipping.
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