that's why you have a stone, you heat it up in the oven first and it cooks the pizza from the bottom more effectively than air
because air, as we all know, is a shit conductor of heat.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 17:07, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

That's cleary more inefficient as you have to heat a fucking stone up using HOT AIR from your oven
before if cooks your pizza. If you have a fan oven, which you will do if you're not a total kitchen spastic, then it's a fucking waste of time.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 17:23, Reply)

Metal is a better conductor of heat than stone
if that were true, a baking tray would be better still. It isn't.
( Kroney, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 17:30, Reply)

The claim for them is that they absorb moisture and thus give a crispy base.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 17:37, Reply)

So does using the grill tray
As any moisture just falls off the pizza.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 17:40, Reply)

Stone is well known for its absorptive properties.
They're practically sponges.
( Kroney, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 17:48, Reply)

They are ceramic on the whole
But even if they weren't, surely even in your dismal French upbringing you must have encountered porous rocks like chalk, limestone, sandstone, pumice etc?

No?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 17:59, Reply)