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/ck/ - Food & Cooking

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Anonymous Mon Dec 30 02:17:13 2013 No.5059101 [DELETED]

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I got a baking stone for Christmas. How exactly do I use it though?

One website said you're supposed to heat it up for atleast an hour at about 500-550 degrees before baking your bread, but that sounds really expensive

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 02:23:13 2013 No.5059115 Just preheat it with your oven.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 02:25:12 2013 No.5059120 >>5059115 That's not going to get it hot enoughg before putting on the bread

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 02:26:12 2013 No.5059121 >>5059115 Not OP but wouldn't the thermostat just flick off and on with the ambient temperature of the oven and the stone being so solid might take some time before it reaches the temperature indicated on the dial?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 02:30:12 2013 No.5059128 its gonna start losing heat really fast the moment you take it out of the preheated oven to put the bread on. heating it much higher makes sure its still around the temperature of the oven when it goes back in

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 02:31:12 2013 No.5059130 >>5059128 you don't take it out of the oven, you put the bread onto it IN the oven.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 02:32:12 2013 No.5059134 File: 29 KB, 347x260, 1263894590787.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5059128 >take it out of the preheated oven to put the bread on

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 02:45:12 2013 No.5059163 >>5059130 that just sounds retarded who the fuck sticks their arms into a hot oven

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 02:49:12 2013 No.5059168 >>5059163 literally everyone who cooks.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 02:50:12 2013 No.5059170 >>5059163 You don't, the bread gets put in with a giant spatula type thing. It has name but I forget.

Anonymous Mon Dec 30 02:57:12 2013 No.5059179
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>not installing an oven rack in your fireplace
>not having a fire poker and a peel (pizza shovel) sitting beside the fire
>not taking the grate and glass panel off and baking bread inside while being comfy as fuck on a cold night

C'mon guys it's like you don't even /ck/

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 02:59:12 2013 No.5059186 Lol this short thread really made me chuckle. Thanks guys.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 03:00:13 2013 No.5059188 >>5059179 >Not owning a Hobart pizza oven

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 03:01:13 2013 No.5059191 >>5059163 why do you think oven mitts are so long ya dingus

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 03:02:13 2013 No.5059193 >>5059188 >Paying $1500 when you could spend $30 and have better results for cheaper

Anonymous Mon Dec 30 03:03:12 2013 No.5059195

>>5059168
Only if you want to burn yourself. You should always remove the rack or use what >>5059170 said. Didn't you pay attention to the safety video?

Sticking your arms into an oven can cause all kinds of problems. The heat blast could cause your glasses to fog up, forcing you to shake them down your face, leading to you spilling the pan you are trying to put into the oven, causing flames to roar up as it contacts inside the oven. Fireball then causes items on top of stove to explode.

And that's just one problem. Not even mentioning the burns from accidental touching with the hands. Or the common occurance of oven mitts or clothing catching on fire when put inside the oven.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 03:04:12 2013 No.5059196 >>5059193 >Not having $1500 to blow on whatever you want

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 03:07:12 2013 No.5059206 >>5059196 Not being born into a family that has been in the wood fire pizza business for centuries

Anonymous Mon Dec 30 03:09:12 2013 No.5059211

Holy shit this thread. But in the off chance OP is serious, don't even touch the thing for several hours after turning off the oven. It has to cool completely, otherwise it can crack if you agitated it too much after it took in all that heat. Never use soap on it either, just rinse it under water.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 03:09:12 2013 No.5059213 >>5059206 >Being born in a mud hut to a family of cave-dwelling primitive cro-magnons

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 03:10:12 2013 No.5059216 File: 72 KB, 250x250, costanza2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5059213 >mud hut >cave-dwelling

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 03:12:13 2013 No.5059221 OP here I feel like if I put a moist loaf of dough onto the hot stone, it's going to burn right onto the stone. Do I need to put flour all over the stone?

Anonymous Mon Dec 30 03:13:13 2013 No.5059225

>>5059221
Use cornmeal as a buffer, sprinkle it on the stone just before inserting the bread. Also your dough shouldn't be so wet that it is sticky enough to burn on anyway. You're going to need to slide it off the peel onto the stone, so flour that sucker up on the bottom.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 03:13:13 2013 No.5059226 >>5059221 Yeah, make sure the flour is wet so it conducts heat more easily

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 03:14:12 2013 No.5059228 >>5059216 The Jeffersons moving on up to a deluxe mud hut in the sky.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 03:15:12 2013 No.5059231 >>5059216 Same thing

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 03:25:13 2013 No.5059241 >>5059231 a cave is an open space within rock, either naturall formed or dug out. a mud hut is a construction, typically of man-made bricks.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 03:29:12 2013 No.5059247 >>5059241 your moms a naturally formed open space

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 03:32:12 2013 No.5059255 >>5059247 parts of her, yes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 03:35:12 2013 No.5059261 >>5059255 oh ok sorry didnt know

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 03:40:13 2013 No.5059266 >>5059241 Pretty sure mud huts are usually thatching slathered with mud.

Anonymous Mon Dec 30 03:49:02 2013 No.5059276
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>>5059266
it really depends on the local construction style.
some times it's slathered thatching, sometimes it's mud bricks reinforced with grass, sometimes it's sun-baked bricks, sometimes it's mud bricks slathered with more mud...

heck, in yemen they build high-rises entirely out of mud.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 04:11:02 2013 No.5059315 File: 71 KB, 1218x701, 1388393355674.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5059276 Mah paint skills.

NOC Mon Dec 30 06:15:06 2013 No.5059493

>>5059101

Not really. The common electric oven has two elements, one is 3,000 W and the other 1,500 W. Electricity, being in the range of $0.05 to $0.12 kW/h., it would only cost a maximum of about $0.50 to heat your oven to maximum temperature for one hour.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 06:19:07 2013 No.5059497 Just pre-heat it in the oven and put a frozen pizza on top of it. Done and done

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 15:43:30 2013 No.5060385 >>5059170 It's called a peel. Someone just posted about one yesterday called the SuperPeel, superpeel.com , which looks pretty good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 17:25:22 2013 No.5060627 >>5059493 >it would only cost a maximum of about $0.50 to heat your oven to maximum temperature for one hour. >only

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 18:44:23 2013 No.5060771 >>5060627 I'm pretty sure ovens don't heat the entire time they're on. The thermostat toggles the heat. So it's not like the oven is literally using 4.5kW for an hour. Probably more like 1-2kW.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 02:09:20 2013 No.5061655 >>5060627 >too poor to pay 50 cents to bake a pizza >will go pay $15 plus tip to have one delivered

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 02:11:20 2013 No.5061659 >>5061655 >assumes cheap asses tip

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 04:38:46 2013 No.5061836 File: 269 KB, 960x1280, izte94[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] OP here The loaf came out pretty ovenly baked. I pre-heated it for like 30 minutes at 450, then turned it down to 375 to bake the bread

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 06:30:35 2013 No.5061947 >>5061836 Looks pretty good. Share your recipe, please.

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 06:46:35 2013 No.5061957
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>>5061947

Thanks

It's just 2 cups of this fancy 7 grain bread flour, about 1 and 1/4 cups warm water, 2 and 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast, 2 tablespoons of gluten flour (although for that loaf I did 1 tablespoon and it came out pretty good, just not as soft), one tablespoon of date sugar (or brown sugar), two teaspoons of Herbes de Provence, and 1/2 teaspoon of salt

I put the dough in the fridge overnight to develop more flavor, then shape it, proof it, score it, and bake that shit. I usually end up eating the whole loaf right when it cools. Took a loaf to work one time and my manager thought it was pretty tasty too

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 09:10:30 2013 No.5062062 Can't tell if OP applied photoshop magic to their bread, but color aside, it looks like it baked pretty well.

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 09:11:30 2013 No.5062063

>>5059163
>>>who the fuck sticks their arms into a hot oven

*facepalm*

>>5059168
^^^this.

&

>>>5059191

>>5059170
a peel

Seriously, at home I used oven mittens and pull the rack out, but i worked a resturant for years shoving my hands, arms, face into a 600 degree oven... its not a big deal

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 09:15:45 2013 No.5062068 >>5062062 That's just what pictures from my phone look like

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 10:54:31 2013 No.5062166 >>5059188 I just have a pizzazz pizza oven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMyF2KzlVdQ

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 11:01:31 2013 No.5062175

>>5059121
>Not OP but wouldn't the thermostat just flick off and on with the ambient temperature of the oven and the stone being so solid might take some time before it reaches the temperature indicated on the dial?

Indeed, you are right. Which is why you put it in there for an hour or more, like OP said.

Anyway, it doesn't cost squat to leave it in there, electricity is very cheap:

Google US average price of electricty: about 15 cents per KWH.

A residential oven is about 2kw. So running it at full blast for an hour would cost you 30 cents--assuming it was running at 100% power the whole time. In reality the thermostat will turn it on and off to maintain the temp, so the real cost will be much lower. But even the worst-case-scenario is terribly cheap. OP is worried about a non-issue.

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 11:25:31 2013 No.5062201

>>5059101
In my experience, it's not necessary to leave it in for an hour before baking.

I usually put mine in a cold oven, let it preheat (15 minutes maybe?) and then let it sit another 10 minutes or so after that.

The results between that and leaving it in for an hour are basically indistinguishable.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 11:26:31 2013 No.5062204 >>5061836 cooked bread or bloody stool?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 11:27:31 2013 No.5062205 >>5059179 I wish ;_;

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