[Sally'sConcerns]

When I first moved to the small town I now live in I bought the Pampered Chef pizza stone. Since I'd never had anything like it before, I followed all of the direction to a T in order to properly prepare the thing to actually cook a pizza on. The first time I cooked a pizza on it, it cracked into alot of little pieces in my oven after about 7 minutes.

I called the local rep and was told I had to return it directly to Pampered Chef. Unfortunately, the same day I was getting it prepared and then later cooking on it, was trash day and the garbage had already been picked up. The trash people picked up my shattered stone on the next trash day.

If you'll FReepmail me you're website, I'll buy another one and once I get it here I'll consult you about exactly how I should go about preparing it for cooking. I love the idea of it and really want to try again.

[LongElegantLegs]

I'd love to help, but let me refer you to ShadowDancer...she's the Pampered Chef consultant. :-)
I believe I had to bake my stone and let it cool once or twice before I started using it, to sort of season it... Perhaps that's why yours broke?

[Tijeras_Slim]

I've been using one for about 10 years solid. Never had a problem. Wonder why your's busted?

[LongElegantLegs]

I followed all of the direction to a T in order to properly prepare the thing to actually cook a pizza on.

Woops, sorry, missed that part! How odd; Maybe there was some kind of internal flaw?

[ShadowDancer]

I'll freepmail you my site. Seasoning is necessary when you first start using your stone but the lack of doing so wouldn't make it crack like that. Sounds like you got a defective piece that had a hairline crack in it already. They do want the item back for replacement but if that happpens to you again, let me know because I don't think you should have had to end up with nothing.

As far as seasoning the stone goes, the best thing you can do for that is to cook something with a greasy value to it on it for the first few times. Crescent rolls or the like, anything with a buttery base. The objective is to make it non-stick and it will be after doing that for a few. The more you use it, the darker it gets and the darker it gets the more seasoned it is. Basically, the uglier it is, the better it is.