Oven Rectangular Pizza Stone, 14.5-Inch x 16.5-Inch

I just received my Old Stone Pizza Stone! What a joy. It arrived in perfect condition! I have been turning out the most beautiful bread with it! It is easy to use and it has no offensive odour, and it doesn't stain easily either. It worked well with a layer of Parchment paper or with Loaf pans. The bread comes out with a deeper browned crust... and so beautifully baked. I really am pleased with results this Stone is giving me. Just a note, and I could be wrong, but I found that with a pan of water and the stone it confuses the computer if you are using True Convection. I think that the Stone sets up its own convection because the result is the same either with convection (without the stone) or the stone. Takes the same amount of time and the result seems tastier, more finished with the Stone. Alternately, I wonder if I had the stone too high in the oven and it split the oven in two! The moment I put the bread on straight bake, the oven settled down and indicated the correct temperature, within seconds. In any case, the Stone gives you lots of room for Batardi, for Boules and for loaf pans and a nice big Pizza. Just don't put anything greasy on it. So if your product has any quantity of oil put it on a Parchment paper or use a pan. And heat your Stone up with the oven, don't put it in a hot oven cold, and don't try to cool it down in sink water, and above all don't use dish soap on it. Treat like the worker it is and it will serve you well and kiss your bread to goodness. It is great investment for your baking, you'll be pleased! Old Stone Oven 14-Inch by 16-Inch Baking Stone

Broke in half after 2 years for no apparent reason

I bought this stone over 2 1/2 years ago, put it in the bottom of my oven, and left it there ever since, only removing it when doing the oven's self-cleaning cycles. It fit perfectly in my oven, even though it is convection and therefore is a bit shallower than a standard oven to allow space for the fan in the back wall. In all that time, it has never cracked. It is the right shape for an oven, and almost any pizza will fit on it just fine. (I did find some monster-sized pizzas from Target that hang over the edge a little bit, but they still work.) To use it, I heat the oven up to 500 degrees. Still a couple hundred degrees shy of a professional pizza oven (which reach over 700 degrees), but the highest temperature a standard oven will allow. I wait another ten to fifteen minutes or so after it reaches temperature to ensure that the stone is as hot as it is going to get, then slide the pizza on using a wooden peel that I bought separately. Ten minutes later, I slip it off the stone using the peel, and it is ready! This works with premade refrigerated pizzas, frozen pizzas, and homemade pizzas. It makes a great crust, which is never soggy regardless of topping overload, and is always crisp on the bottom. Alton Brown is a great source of information, so I have no doubt that his advice of getting an unglazed tile for this purpose will certainly work. However, rest assured that this is not a tile being resold at a high markup as a pizza surface. It has feet molded into the bottom to hold it off the surface, is a better shape and size for the oven cavity, and was manufactured for use with food, rather than being stacked on a pile of construction supplies. It is thick, but is engineered to withstand the kind of thermal stresses I've been subjecting it to for years without cracking. Sure, it is more expensive than a tile, but the cost is still low, and it really lasts. Makes great pizza, too! So, make your own choice about whether to use a tile or not, but keep in mind that the comments about the tiles being so much better seem to be coming only from people who don't own this stone. I don't see any comments like "I bought this and wish I had a cheap tile instead."

Funciona de maravilla para pizza y pan! Compré dos y caben justo en el mismo nivel de mi honro de convección (horno profesional). Mi única recomendación es que lean bien el manual de uso, hay un proceso que hacer antes de usarlo por primera vez y tienen que dejarlo precalentar un buen tiempo.

This is a great stone, I didn't write a review early on because I wanted to actually get some experience with it first. I've used it for bread and pizza, for pizza it really helps to have it on a thin nonstick sheet to keep any grease from the cheese from getting into the stone as that will get into the pores and start to stink. It's a nice and thick stone, I've put it in the oven at 100 degrees to raise bread, then when i take the bread dough in bread forms out of the oven to heat it up, I leave them on the stone to keep them warm and rising while the oven heats up ( when baking bread in forms instead of on the stone ). This is fantastic in colder weather when you don't want the dough getting cold while the oven heats up. Haven't had any problems lifting the stone out by the edges with ~5kgs of bread dough and forms sitting on top of it. The thinner stones I seriously doubt that would be a good idea, also talking about thinner stones I've had the chance to handle a few of those 5-10$ 1/4 inch round pizza stones, the texture is nowhere near as nice, and I'm fairly sure I could crack them in half with my bare hands. I should also mention it came in a very nice cardboard box so while I have heard others say theirs broke in transit I'd say it's rather unlikely unless the thing gets seriously beat on. Word of warning though, make sure to follow the first time instructions and always give the stone a good 30 minutes to heat up before trying to bake on it, that's the downside of such a big stone over those thin cheapo ones, it absorbs a LOT of heat. Also get yourself a nice big aluminum pizza peel as well, I bought one off amazon here with a long handle so it's so easy getting bread or pizza in and out of the oven.