Rancid Smell on Pizza Stone

JCO

My BGE pizza stone, which is only about 2 months old, has a very bad rancid oil smell. Is this typical? Is there any way to get rid of it? I have only cooked a few pizzas on it (with the plate setter) and now the smell is so bad, I can't keep the thing in the house.

What's up? Can I return it? Did I get a bad one? Is there a way to eliminate the smell?

Canugghead

Is it soaked in grease or oil? Not sure if a clean burn will get rid of it. I've seen eggers lined the stone with parchment paper to prevent grease absorption.

vidalia1

I would throw it away and get a new one or try taking it back to your dealer. Could an animal have used it for a place to go to the bathroom?

I have not heard of this before. :blink:

JCO

I drizzled a little olive oil on top of a store bought pizza dough that had perforations it it, so I think that may be how the oil got on it, but wouldn't just simply having some cheese fall on it get oil on the stone?

I've had a Pampered chef pizza stone for years and did all kinds of cooking with it, pizzas, cookies, ect. and never had this problem. Of course I cracked that one in the egg and that's why I bought the BGE stone.

If anyone has ever had this problem and fixed it, I'd sure love to know how they did it.

"Sparky"

What have you been cooking on it? :blink: I don't keep mine "in the house",so maybe I've just never noticed the smell :ohmy: Don't wash it!!!,Try burning it off in the egg at high temp

WessB

Just put it on the cooking grid and let it rip at 500+ for 30 or 40 minutes..it'll be clean as new and wont have any grease...if thats what it is..left in it...think, self cleaning oven..

JCO

I'll try that right now. I hope that takes care of it. Although it seems that the stone is a lot more porous than the old Pampered Chef one and that this may be a continuous problem.

JCO

Question, when I try to burn off the smell, should I put it on the plate setter or should I put it on top of the grill? Will it crack if I put directly on the grill? Should I put the top part down to burn off whatever is on it?

Grandpas Grub

 
On the grid.

GG

JCO

top up or top down?

FlaPoolman

doesn't matter, just take it to 5-600 for an hour or 2

Grandpas Grub

 
I agree with Pat, nevertheless, if the smell is coming from something left on the top then top down will get more direct heat exposure.

Let us know how the clean burn turns out.

GG

JCO

It's at 500 deg now, face down. I'll let y'all know how it turns out in a couple of hours...

JCO

Smell is gone!

Thanks to all for their help. I stuck it in the egg at >500 deg for about an hour and a half, directly on the grill, with the top down. Apparently there must have been something on it that did go rancid, because about half the stone is very black and the other half is as white as when I bought it. Whatever it was, is now charred and does not smell!

Thanks again!

2Fategghead

Alright!

Canugghead

That's great!