Cleaning Pizza Stone Question

Not suggested but left ours in a self cleaning oven. Wife didn't check before turning on the clean cycle. It looked brand new but I feared that it would crack the stone the next time and never did that again.

Now.. dont laugh..

When my stone gets real bad, i heat them it up, and rub it down with a heavy ball of crumpled up aluminum foil.. if its really gross(like when a pie tears and dumps all the contents on the stone(dont ask me how I know that happens :redface::thumb, I take some fine and medium grade sandpaper to it and sand down the entire stone to remove the nasties. it removes a fine powder and restores the stone to like new. I use the BGE stones and they are unglazed so sanding works well and opens up the pores after getting clogged with oil and cheese. Also have done it on BB&B stones, and they seem to be a little tougher which leads me to believe there is a slight glaze on it. The sanding is done on a cold stone.

Im not sure if doing this would ruins a glazed stone.(the one in the picture isnt). I would think it would if thats what u prefer using, but i hate them so removeing the glaze to me is a good thing. I dont like them anyway. Stones should be porous to pull moisture out of the doughs. With those glazed strones you may as well be using teflon.

BTW,

DO NOT USE ANY SOAP ON A STONE! Ever.. It absorbs the soap and the flavor/smell never goes away. The wife put a BB&B stones in the sink and soaked it in Dawn. The next time I preheated it, u can smell the soap coming out of the oven.. It was ruined where it went in the trash.

Like Poobah I just scrape mine off with a ball of foil and cook on.........Have you ever looked inside the oven at a really busy pizza joint? They just brush them out and cook on!

Looks well seasoned to me. :thumb:

Considereing the bird sh*t, if it were mine it would be int trash and I'd buy a new one, they are not that expensive. As far as cleaning a stone without bird sh*t, I do what Pooh does (pun intended):biggrin:!

I use a similar technique as the esteemed Grand Poohbah. Instead of using sandpaper, I give it a healthy shaking of salt. Rubbing the salt with a papertowel or cloth is enough of an abrasive to take the goop off. I do the same thing with my cast iron skillet and dutch oven.

M-m-m! Guano! Toss ot.

Mitch said:

M-m-m! Guano! Toss ot.

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Bird Poop means toss. Yes, I know 500 degrees and it's dust. But every time I looked at the stain I'd be reminded.

BBQ Grail said:

Bird Poop means toss. Yes, I know 500 degrees and it's dust. But every time I looked at the stain I'd be reminded.

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If you were to freeze a piece of dog chit and use to scrap off the bird chit, would they cancel each other out?

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willkat98 said:

If you were to freeze a piece of dog chit and use to scrap off the bird chit, would they cancel each other out?

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Nice tree falling in the forest analogy Bill. :biggrin: My answer would be no to the cancel and yes someone woud hear it.

It looks cleaner; it may be my imagination, but I think I still see white stains where the bird poop was.

Maybe you make a gift of it to your mom and buy yourself a new one...

Can you turn it over? :wink::idea:

Dogs like beef on the rare side... so do many Brethren.

Dogs like bird poop too...

how bad can it be ? :heh:

I learned a Looooooooonnnnnnnggggggggg time ago from riding stuff that really wasn't all that interested in being ridden that crap is biodegradable, digestible and prolly won't kill ya.

Fire up the grill and run it up to ramming speed and then go with it. Anything that survives 500 degrees is too tough to argue with anyways.

Bird chit for breakfast regards

Bubba