Best stone for a bakestone?

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British Red

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Marble is great Tone - I have a piece of Marble that I bake all my freehand loaves and rolls on. It does discolour a little over time but so what? Granite is good too - offcuts from kitchen worktops work well
 

mountainm

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I just skip dived a piece of marble (with permission) from the stone bathroom place near where I work. They were chucking loads out. I got it for leatherwork.

The only thing I'm unsure of is if it's real marble or some sort of ceramic substitute. Either way it'll do my job, maybe even make a good bake stone?
 

Goatboy

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You could also use some clay to make one if you have any naturally occurring near you. Then you can make it to the size you need no problems.
ATB,
GB.
 

Toddy

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It's the firing that's the problem with them.
Sorting out the clay is pretty straightforward, and moulding it's easy enough.

If we could get everything biscuit dry enough before we did it, we could do a pit firing down at the moot ?

M
 

mountainm

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It's the firing that's the problem with them.
Sorting out the clay is pretty straightforward, and moulding it's easy enough.

If we could get everything biscuit dry enough before we did it, we could do a pit firing down at the moot ?

M


May as well just use a big pizza plate? They aren't expensive.
 

Tony

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It's the firing that's the problem with them.
Sorting out the clay is pretty straightforward, and moulding it's easy enough.

If we could get everything biscuit dry enough before we did it, we could do a pit firing down at the moot ?

M


We'll have the pizza oven that Tim's going to build
 

milius2

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Sorry guys, can you give me a quick intro into "bakestoning"??? How do you do it? Any pics and recipies would be great, I always wanted to learn to bake simplest of breads like pita's but never knew how it was done and I thing this is the answer??,,,,
 

Alreetmiowdmuka

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Sorry guys, can you give me a quick intro into "bakestoning"??? How do you do it? Any pics and recipies would be great, I always wanted to learn to bake simplest of breads like pita's but never knew how it was done and I thing this is the answer??,,,,
Here's a dead easy start one
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=116876
I recommend the river cottage book on baking bread when your getting started
 

British Red

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A bakestone is just a lump of stone or pottery heated in the oven mate - You bake your (hand shaped) loaves on top of the bakestone instead of in a tin

Loaves like these are just round balls of dough put on a bakestone with a couple of knife slashes in the top


Sesame and white bread by British Red, on Flickr

My daughter plaits dough and then puts them on the bakestone - they look like this


sams bread by British Red, on Flickr
 

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