# My pizza stone broke

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pizza-stone-broke/599207>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 10, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pizza-stone-broke/599207 "2011-10-10T18:24:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pizza-stone-broke/599207/21 "2011-10-11T14:49:39Z")

</div>

i usually make pizza in a 12" cast-iron skillet. That way it’s round.

For a more ‘artisan’ look, I thought I’d get a pizza stone. I didn’t want to pay $30 or $40 for one, so I looked for a tile. But I went to a landscaping store instead of a home store. The closest piece of stone I could find that might serve was a piece of slate. I wasn’t sure if it would work, so the yard worker told me to just take it. So I got my pizza stone free.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pizza-stone-broke/599207/22 "2011-10-11T16:18:01Z")

</div>

I don’t care, I ain’t gonna lend your pizza no money.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pizza-stone-broke/599207/23 "2011-10-11T17:07:36Z")

</div>

If your pizza stone broke while a pizza was upon it, do not fret. For your pizza, having committed no treachery and being baked in a traitor’s stead, shall return to you whole and uneaten.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pizza-stone-broke/599207/24 "2011-10-11T17:20:25Z")

</div>

> [@cjepson](#):
>
> I don’t care, I ain’t gonna lend your pizza no money.

Come on, man. My pizza just needs one more fix and then he’ll get cleaned up. I swear.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pizza-stone-broke/599207/25 "2011-10-11T17:25:03Z")

</div>

> [@pulykamell](#):
>
> You should check out Lodge’s cast-iron pizza pans. I have one of these and, in my opinion, they work just as well, if not better, than pizza stones. You don’t have to worry about those suckers cracking.

Agreed. I have two of those, six years of steady use, no problems. I got tired of replacing a pizza stone every once in a while (and they would always break at an inconvenient time - just as I was ready to make a pizza).

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pizza-stone-broke/599207.md?page=1)