This will keep it from cracking later when you need higher heat such as for baking pizza.
Unglazed quarry tile baking stone.
Now glazed tile often has lead in it so you want to be careful to get an unglazed slab.
I ve been wanting to get unglazed quarry tiles to make a stone for my oven as per several books i ve read.
Unglazed quarry tile do not have this limitation.
They re natural clay about 8 8 and were 1.
Sources for baking stones and unglazed quarry tile.
Generally it comes in two sizes.
Let the stone cool to room temperature.
Most of what you are going to find is going to be red and about one half of an inch thick.
It is the glazing process that can react to acidic substances during cooking and release toxic products but if the tile in unglazed it is just clay.
Your local home improvement store is an amazing place and best of all they have unglazed quarry tiles.
Store it in the oven until you need to use it.
Six tiles weight 7 pounds 13 ounces and made a 12 18 inch landing.
Treesap 4 years ago i believe khurram was referring to the pampered chef pizza stones when speaking of those recommendations.
The problem is every time i go to home depot the people that work there have no idea what i m talking about i can t find anything that says unglazed quarry tiles and i don t know what they exactly look like or what section they are supposed to be in.