Pizza stone is very popular in west countries. It is normally used in the pizza oven. Then what is a pizza stone?
Pizza stone is made of Cordierite and can resist high temperature. It is formed and fired more than 1100 ℃. The working temperature is up to 700 ℃. It can be used in electric oven, gas oven and charcoal oven.It could not only bake pizza, but also bake beef stick and also other meats and vegetables. The cordierite pizza stone has high capacity of thermal storage. So it can save energy. When we open the oven, the temperature will not decrease sharply. It is favor to bake different foods continuously.
The pizza stones include glazed pizza stones and unglazed pizza stones.The glazed pizza stones is much more expensive than unglazed one due to the high cost of the glaze material. But the glazed pizza stone is easy to clean. The food will not stick to the stones after baking.The unglazed pizza stones are more economical.As it can absorb the extra water of the food, the baking foods are very delicious and the outside of the pizza and bread is crisp. Many people like this biting feeling. The disadvantage of the unglazed pizza stone is that it can absorb water and oil of the food and difficult to clean it.So normally, after using, the unglazed pizza stone seems dirty. But it doesn’t matter. We don’t need cleaning it with detergent.Just washing it with water or wipe it clean with a clean rag.After washing, we only need dry it naturally.
According to the different design of the oven, the cordierite pizza stones has standard shape and special shape.The standard shapes include round shape, square shape and square shape with fillets. The thickness of the stones normally from 6mm to 20mm which is up to the customers.For special shape, we can make mold according to customers drawing or detailed requirement information.Customer’s logo could also be showed on the pizza stones.The logo could be lased or made directly on the mold.
The pizza stones are normally export to Europe, USA, south America and other countries directly or together with the pizza oven.