Bread-Bakers v102.n030.7

Hi, there!

My husband and I are dipping our collective big toes in the Sea of 
Artisanry and need your advice:  We are in the market for a baking stone 
and have come to a choice between two:  Both are approximately the same 
size (14" x 16") but there is a difference in weight and price.  The more 
expensive of the two, and the heaviest, advertises that the stone may stay 
in the oven where it can be cleaned during the oven cleaning cyle.  The 
other stone doesn't speak to this point.  There is about $10-15 difference 
in the price.  Which one should we be looking at from the standpoint of 
durability and effectiveness -- outside, of course -- spending a fortune 
remaking the oven?  Hm-m-m-?  Thanks, Pat

--- Merv Slobodin
--- patmerv@earthlink.net