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Broken pizza stone

Scottborasjr
Scottborasjr Posts: 3,494
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After my chicken parmesan cook last night shut the egg down and didn't think twice about it. Went to fire it up tonight and found this. Should I bother with JB weld or just order a new one from Tom?
I raise my kids, cook and golf.  When work gets in the way I'm pissed, I'm pissed off 48 weeks a year.
Inbetween Iowa and Colorado, not close to anything remotely entertaining outside of football season. 
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,455
    personally I would save the pieces to get creative using one for an indirect cook while direct on the other side. I'm just not a fan of JB Weld in the long run when it comes to egg related repairs.
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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  • Jeremiah
    Jeremiah Posts: 6,412
    Agreed, that's a nice clean half break. Mine shattered a few weeks ago. Guess it's time for a good one here. 
    Slumming it in Aiken, SC. 
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  • Hawg Fan
    Hawg Fan Posts: 1,517
    I had one break last year and I used a diamond tooth disk on my 4" grinder to make a couple of smaller pieces that I use on my small egg to creat two cooking zones.

    Any road will take you there if you don't know where you're going.

    Terry

    Rockwall, TX
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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    I have the 2-pack of mini sized (8") pizza stones from Amazon. I use them frequently for indirects on the large while cooking direct on the rest of the grid. Your broken stone should give you the same thing. Don't bother with JB Weld. It won't hold it for long anyway.  

    You may want to consider a piece of 1/4" steel for a pizza "stone". Does a great job and will never break. Steel yard scrap pile will likely be the cheapest (mine was about $12).

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • Scottborasjr
    Scottborasjr Posts: 3,494
    @Carolina Q yeah I fell into the trap of the baking steel a couple years ago. I have it somewhere.....
    I raise my kids, cook and golf.  When work gets in the way I'm pissed, I'm pissed off 48 weeks a year.
    Inbetween Iowa and Colorado, not close to anything remotely entertaining outside of football season. 
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  • NPHuskerFL
    NPHuskerFL Posts: 17,629
    Grinder and make two close to half moons for biscuits etc
    LBGE 2013 & MM 2014
    Die Hard HUSKER & BRONCO FAN
    Flying Low & Slow in "Da Burg" FL
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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    Scottborasjr said:
    @Carolina Q yeah I fell into the trap of the baking steel a couple years ago. I have it somewhere.....
    So much for cheap. :lol: 

    I've never used mine in the egg, just the oven. Works great there!

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • lograt2
    lograt2 Posts: 6
    What causes them to break? Is it cooling down too quickly?
    Reformed Gasser
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  • Scottborasjr
    Scottborasjr Posts: 3,494
    edited July 2015
    I can promise you this one wasn't from cooling down too quick. It's a steamy 88 degrees at 10:00 pm around here now. Eventually they all will break. This one lasted five years before breaking and the temperature and humidity swings don't help a piece like that. 
    I raise my kids, cook and golf.  When work gets in the way I'm pissed, I'm pissed off 48 weeks a year.
    Inbetween Iowa and Colorado, not close to anything remotely entertaining outside of football season. 
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    It'll still work like that, but buy a new one.  I wouldn't JB weld it and cook food on it.
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  • EagleIII
    EagleIII Posts: 418
    I agree with @Carolina Q that you try the 1/4" Plate steel.  I got a 1/4" piece of scrap plate steel as an experiment and it made the best pizza crust ever.  I liked it so much I ordered another one and I build a "pizza oven" in the egg.....so, grill elevated to the felt line, plate steel on the bottom, fire bricks stood on edge around the edge of the plate steel, then the second 1/4" plate laid on top of the fire bricks.  If you give the egg, and plate steels time to come up to temp, it makes a great crust and makes the top of the pizza nice and bubbly...
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