How To Repair Stone Cookware

Note from Peter:  I've recommended interesting products here from time to time, just only rarely.  However, I get so many emails from folks lamenting a broken or cracked baking stone that I couldn't resist posting this guest cavalcade from our long time friend, Bob Radcliffe (I remember when I dropped my 10 year old stone and had to fight off serious tears — it was a type of mourning after such long-term bonding and many wonderful pizzas, so Bob'due south story spoke to me directly).  Anyway, here he is and, after his popular serial virtually his quest for the perfect tomato plant pie (see the Invitee Column archives if y'all missed it) I couldn't pass up his request to brand his habitation made repair kit available to others.  I go no kicking-dorsum from this, by the way, simply I do get a kick out of Bob — one of the about original people in the PizzaQuest universe. Have it away, Bob:

My Pizza Stone Repair Kit
Well, from the title, you lot can figure out that the writer, aka the "NC Tomato Pie Guy," does sometimes cook in a regular oven – in my case either an LP gas or electric oven – instead of in my custom, forest-fired outdoor 1. That forest-fired oven was a labor of love I congenital from scratch, with guidance from the Forno Bravo Forum website. My cooking adventures formed the basis for a series of articles Peter was gracious enough to post hither on PizzaQuest.com.

For well over twenty years I've experimented with breads and pizza using a square clay pizza stone (14"x16"x1/2"). Sadly, it recently broke in two – and broke my heart, too. I actually loved that sometime stone, since we'd been through so much together. It was practically a member of the family unit. Belongings onto that stone reminded me of my old car, a iv-cycle subcontract vehicle I but knew I could bulldoze for a million miles, but my dearest 1989 Datsun Pathfinder only made information technology to 450,000 miles earlier the engine blew last yr.  So I listened to my 94-yr old Dad and bought a new car – sort of. He was delighted with my decision, since he'due south bought more than 50 new cars in his lifetime. He wanted me to experience the feeling. I found my "new" motorcar on Craig's List – a real beauty – an upgrade – a 1995 four-wheel drive Datsun Pathfinder – aforementioned colour (red), with only 225,000 miles, for $one,400 greenbacks. When I told Dad, he thought I said $fourteen,000 and couldn't believe I got a new truck for that. Was he surprised! Well, no one I know here could believe I would buy a car for $1400 with all those miles either. I managed to go my bargain car in tip-top shape by spending just $2,000, including a trailer hitch and new tires. It does "miss" in one case in a while, but no emissions exam is required and the insurance payment is depression. If it gets a scrape or ii driving on my farm paths I hardly notice and, bluntly, I don't cringe. As you tin see, when it comes down to information technology, I'thou a "Mr. Fix-It" kinda guy! My new car works just fine.

So, dorsum to my pizza stone: Ownership a new one wasn't the first thought crossing my mind. I felt confident I could some mode set it. I began by frantically searching on Google for an answer, and looked into a lot of "dry out holes" at that place, merely no such luck.  So I dug into my bag of wood-fired oven tricks and took the broken halves and lightly brushed the edges clean. I applied a sparse layer of industrial kiln adhesive to each face of the crevice, and on my kitchen granite counter meridian (a very flat surface) pushed the edges firmly together. So, I wiped off the backlog adhesive on the acme cooking surface and let the pizza stone sit down untouched for 12 hours. After that, I then preheated my electric oven to 500 F, turned the oven off, and placed my "repaired" stone in the oven overnight. Voilà!  In the morn it was "cured" – fixed – and gear up to use again!

Here'due south the underside of my repaired rock — stronger than e'er!

The top of my newly repaired, well-used pizza stone.

Forget about the underside surface irregularities caused by the extra adhesive. You lot cook on the top surface, not the bottom. It will piece of work simply fine! If this stone were to crevice once again, information technology would occur somewhere else, since the agglutinative is stronger than the tile itself. Much like my wood-fired oven. I am told that in the year 3,000, when an inquisitive archaeologist attempts to dissemble my wood-fired brick oven with a sledge hammer (or light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation gun), the bricks will break before the joints fail. Nice!

Well, initially, I got really excited that my Pizza Stone was stock-still. Then I got more excited when I realized at that place must be thousands of other frustrated souls out at that place with broken pizza stones.
So I came up with the idea to sell a Pizza Rock Repair Kit. I hastily sent Peter Reinhart an electronic mail with my thought. He suggested I write another PizzaQuest Invitee Column. And then here nosotros are.

For just $xv, I'll ship y'all exactly what you demand to repair your Pizza Rock – with complete directions and special adhesive. If you lot are a deal hunter, the adhesive I provide is not bachelor at retail stores, nor in small-scale quantities. I guarantee this kit will repair your ceramic or dirt (non metallic) pizza rock. I brand the repair kits. Best of all, I provide technical support. You know who you lot are dealing with – Bob Radcliffe at www.lynchcreek.com. This is a 100% Made-In-America solution.  At the hazard of sounding like an infomercial, if this Pizza Stone Repair Kit fails to repair your Pizza Rock – I'll REFUND YOUR Coin. If you can discover a ameliorate deal, my advice to you is – have it!
Mail your $15 check, greenbacks or money guild today payable to:
LYNCH CREEK Subcontract, 
1973 Rocky Ford Route, Kittrell, NC 27544 
ATTN: Pizza Rock Repair Kit

I'll ship my Pizza Rock Repair Kit to you ASAP. You lot volition exist back in business cooking pizzas with your old stone in a 24-hour interval.

P.Southward. I take promised Peter some other article most my new woods-fired oven "Potato Pie."  Stay tuned.

How To Repair Stone Cookware,

Source: https://www.fornobravo.com/pizzaquest/pizza-stone-repair-kit/

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