Breville 13" Pizza Stone for Breville Smart Oven (BOV800) and Breville Smart Oven Pro (BOV845)

As usual, Breville makes the best small home appliance. We are no longer consuming pizza from restaurant or grocery store ever since we have the Breville pizza oven. Buying this pizza stone as a backup.

Typical Brevell product works well, produces a nicely cooked pizza

I was skeptical after havinb read all the reviews if it would stand up. It arrived just fine. There is not much for instructions on using it, other than the don'ts so have had a quite a few fun learning experiences, haven't ruined anything past the point of not being some what salvagable. As the instructions are written for in home oven use it says heat up to 425, did that and cooked artisan bread and pizza didn't have enough flour on the bottom of both and it stuck and burned in spots tore the pizza apart coming off and then got cheese and topping on stone which burnt in, it was edible after we piled it all together and dug in and ditche the burned parts. Scraped and wired brushed using a bar b que tool and washed with with just straight water, it is now broke in and has its stain marks. We got this one for camping so off it went with us on holidays and tried using it on the camp chef barbque box and over the fire, used a heat temp gun to monitor the stone heat, but soon found that the temp is not to be 425 to 450 as one would expect to duplicate the oven temp, things just burned on the bottom before the top was even close to being done. Again more scraping and brushing. Didn't give up though, reduced the heat so the stone was about 325-350 things are now coming out done with a nice dark brown crispy bottom we may be leaving it a little too long still working on perfecting the whole production but the stone wasn't ruined and we are having fun and enjoying it emensley . Have done pizza, flatbreads, calzones, artisan breads, and cookies that don't have a lot of butter in them (others say they do cookies so figured what the heck give it a shot can get an other stone if it gets wrecked this one is not expensive) well stone is still going strong and serving us well, will replace if/when it gives up the ghost.

I used this for a store bought cauliflower pizza crust in my toaster oven, and it crisped beautifully. Being stoneware, it naturally absorbs oils, and will stain. Dish soap would soak into the open pores, so a pizza scrubber and water are needed to clean off any stuck crumbs.

First off you are not supposed to wash Pizza Stones. You just wipe them off and if needed scrape off melted cheese. The dirtier the better. They are not supposed to look good. My only problem is that this stone is made in China. You can buy this same size pizza stone on amazon for $10.00 less. Not a Breville but who cares. Not sure if it is made in China but still 10.00 cheaper and prime qualified. I already purchased this stone. If I knew before hand I would never had purchased the Breville Stone. Especially if I knew it was made in China!PS: I have an old pizza stone that looks like a black stain on a walkway. When I preheat my oven it smokes like crazy. I may be exaggerating a little? It took twenty years to get it this way and I would not sell this for a thousand bucks. My pizza and bread is the real deal and most of my success is due to the flavors added by my old stone. So cleaning or washing a pizza stone is a mortal sin in my books. Hope you agree.