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After the holiday baking I decided to clean my oven and as long as I was doing that I thought I would try the suggestion I read here to put my baking stone in for the cleaning process. My stone is well used and was a very dark brown. I could not believe my eyes - the stone came out pale beige just like it was new again. Thanks to whomever posted that tidbit.