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Direct heat will crack your stone.

I've used a cast iron dutch oven for bread and that's come out well.




On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Lisa K.V. Perry wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:50 AM, <paxamicus AT earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > In the meantime, you could bake bread on pizza stones.
>
>
> We have a pizza stone.
>
> What if... I put it on top of our wood stove (it's larger than the  
> soapstone
> surface) and covered my roundish loaf of bread with an upside down  
> pot?
>
> Still looking for ways to bake using the wood stove.
>
> I made cornbread over the weekend in the Coleman portable camp oven.  
> The
> oven didn't get higher than almost 200 degrees. I baked the  
> cornbread for 1
> hr 20 minutes and it was thoroughly baked. It didn't rise as high as  
> it
> normally would in a hot oven, but it was still good. Everyone was  
> excited
> that I made it in the camp oven on the wood stove.
>
> lkvp