So I got a nifty pizza stone and decided to make pizza - unfortunately I didn't get the results I was hoping for

[JoeM]

The prep was perfect, real thin and the pizza looked spectacular after putting it together on my wooden board. I had plenty of flour on the board, on the dough, on the stone and on my peel but it was really humid here in NJ yesterday and I think I left it on the board too long waiting for my wife to come home before putting it in the oven.

The first sign I was in trouble was when I tried to get it on the peel. It wouldn't lift from the wooden board.
and it wouldn't slide off the peel onto the pizza stone in my oven. I wound up with the mess you see below.

The pizza flipped all over itself trying to get it on the stone and a lot of cheese and dough stuck to the stone.

BTW, the mess certainly looked nasty but it tasted great!urrender:









My problem now is how do I get the mess and baked on cheese cleaned off the stone? I've googled cleaning a stone and there seems to be conflicting opinions on whether you can get it wet without ruining it. I managed to scrape all the dough off but was hoping someone here can offer some cleaning advice.

TIA

[Tiangou]

You can get it wet without ruining it. Just don't put a wet stone in the oven on high-heat. Give it a few days to dry off properly.

If yours is ceramic, be careful not to scratch the surface. Don't try to get the stains off with abrasives.

The stains are service-scars. A stone without stains is a sad and friendless stone.

...Next time, use corn meal on the pizza stone, not flour.

[btfc]

You can get it wet, but make sure it has cooled down first.

No soap, hot water and scrubbing. You can scrub with salt.

Don’t season like you would a cast iron pan.

Heat it up before you add pizza.

[hal]

looks like a lovely calzone :-)

[chopper]

If I lived in Jersey with all the NY-style pie around I'd have a hard time making my own.

You made kind of a Stromboli. I'd eat it.

[rgG]

hal wrote:
looks like a lovely calzone :-)

My thought, too!

[Dennis S]

Try a cast iron skillet just for the heck of it.

[JoeM]

hal wrote:
looks like a lovely calzone :-)

That's what I thought too. The taste was there even though it looked like whoflungsh!t miley-laughing001:

[JoeM]

Tiangou wrote:
You can get it wet without ruining it. Just don't put a wet stone in the oven on high-heat. Give it a few days to dry off properly.

If yours is ceramic, be careful not to scratch the surface. Don't try to get the stains off with abrasives.

The stains are service-scars. A stone without stains is a sad and friendless stone.

...Next time, use corn meal on the pizza stone, not flour.

I always used corn meal previously but I read an article saying not to - use flour. My bad.

[JoeM]

Thanks gang! I'll try cleaning as you all advise.