While baking a Friendship Cake in the oven this weekend, the cake
decided to become a bit too chummy with the oven -- all over the pizza
stone underneath. Now I understand that baking stones are not meant to be
washed (at least according to the sparse instructions that came with the
stone from Brookstone). Would I be courting disaster to leave the stone
in the oven during a self-cleaning cycle (after all, the stones are a
fired ceramic, aren't they?)? Or should I simply scrape what I can with a
wire brush and realize that the next few loaves will be a bit pungent?
Many thanks for your thoughts on this. (Yes I know I forgot to
use a baking sheet under the tube pan. In this instance, it would only
have guided the batter onto one side of the stone. Mea culpa!)
rksmith@clark.net Robert K. Smith