Can Polished Marble Be Used As A Baking Stone...???
Gregory Morrow
have several nice thick foot - square pieces of marble (tiles, I guess) and
I was wondering if she could simply use them for a baking stone (she has a
small apartment oven)...
Any advice...???
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Mark Thorson
>
> Okay, I don't use baking stones but a friend 'o mine wants to get one. I
> have several nice thick foot - square pieces of marble (tiles, I guess) and
> I was wondering if she could simply use them for a baking stone (she has a
> small apartment oven)...
>
> Any advice...???
I think the moisture content of marble may pose
a problem. Marble is a porous and inhomogeneous
stone. It may crack.
George Shirley
> Okay, I don't use baking stones but a friend 'o mine wants to get one. I
> have several nice thick foot - square pieces of marble (tiles, I guess) and
> I was wondering if she could simply use them for a baking stone (she has a
> small apartment oven)...
>
> Any advice...???
>
>
not "man-made", ie. marble dust in a form of glue, they should work.
Take a gander at some of the sites that come up on a Google search Greg.
Sheldon
> Okay, I don't use baking stones but a friend 'o mine wants to get one. �I
> have several nice thick foot - square pieces of marble (tiles, I guess) and
> I was wondering if she could simply use them for a baking stone (she has a
> small apartment oven)...
>
> Any advice...???
Those silly stones sold to store in ovens do absolutely nothing
whatsover to improve baking with any standard oven, and in fact may
damage the oven... anyone wants to do brick oven baking better buy a
real brick oven, that's the only way.
Michel Boucher
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> I think the moisture content of marble may pose
> a problem. Marble is a porous and inhomogeneous
> stone. It may crack.
Marble is a calcium silicate. Its crystals have both soluble and insoluble
faces. Cutting marble along the insoluble face will mean that the stone
will not decay as quickly as cutting along the soluble face.
I have never heard it described as porous. It is more cohesive and heavier
than granite, so it could hardly be porous.
It can be used as a heated cooking surface, as in
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Wayne Boatwright
> Mark Thorson <nos...@sonic.net> wrote in
> news:4916181B...@sonic.net:
>
>> I think the moisture content of marble may pose
>> a problem. Marble is a porous and inhomogeneous
>> stone. It may crack.
>
> Marble is a calcium silicate. Its crystals have both soluble and
> insoluble faces. Cutting marble along the insoluble face will mean that
> the stone will not decay as quickly as cutting along the soluble face.
>
> I have never heard it described as porous. It is more cohesive and
> heavier than granite, so it could hardly be porous.
>
> It can be used as a heated cooking surface, as in
>
> http://www.hotstones.com/
>
I don’t know the technicalities of it, but marble certainly stains more
easily than granite. I would have assumed because of this that it is more
porous.
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> Mark Thorson <nos...@sonic.net> wrote in
> news:4916181B...@sonic.net:
>
>> I think the moisture content of marble may pose
>> a problem. Marble is a porous and inhomogeneous
>> stone. It may crack.
>
> Marble is a calcium silicate. Its crystals have both soluble and insoluble
> faces. Cutting marble along the insoluble face will mean that the stone
> will not decay as quickly as cutting along the soluble face.
>
> I have never heard it described as porous. It is more cohesive and heavier
> than granite, so it could hardly be porous.
>
> It can be used as a heated cooking surface, as in
>
> http://www.hotstones.com/
>
Marble is calcium carbonate, just like limestone but crystallized
differently. It is not porous, but it is subject to attack by acids.
It should make a decent cooking stone. And certainly cheap enough in
12x12" tiles that you can replace them when you break them. (Get real
marble, not "cultured marble", although I've never seen cultured marble
in tile form -- somebody probably makes them)
Bob
Michel Boucher
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> Marble is calcium carbonate
Quite right, thanks for the correction. My work on marble is well over 20
years old and my memory was faulty.
Victor Sack
> Marble is a calcium silicate. Its crystals have both soluble and insoluble
> faces. Cutting marble along the insoluble face will mean that the stone
> will not decay as quickly as cutting along the soluble face.
>
> I have never heard it described as porous. It is more cohesive and heavier
> than granite, so it could hardly be porous.
Marble is calcium carbonate and is definitely porous, though not very
much so. Its porosity is one of the reasons for its use in
production of lardo di Colonnata, among other things.
Victor
George Shirley
home with cultured marble floor tiles. Weird stuff but it worked okay.
My fear would be that the binder in cultured marble would not lend
itself to food service.
zxcvbob
I agree. I've just never seen cultured marble floor tiles before.
(there's a lot of stuff I haven't seen)
Bob
Mark Thorson
>
> Marble is a calcium silicate. Its crystals have both soluble and insoluble
> faces. Cutting marble along the insoluble face will mean that the stone
> will not decay as quickly as cutting along the soluble face.
Marble is polycrystalline. How does one cut
a polycrystalline material along one face?
sf
wrote:
>Marble is calcium carbonate and is definitely porous, though not very
>much so. Its porosity is one of the reasons for its use in
>production of lardo di Colonnata, among other things.
Please don't tell me they age that lard in marble caves.
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Michel Boucher
As part of the research I did on marble production in Canada in the 19th
century, I discovered that marble which was cut along the insoluble face
was much more durable than marble cut along the soluble face. Specifically
with respect to tombstones, one can see the result in expensive and cheap
headstones (the cheaper ones being for small children, whose inscriptions
are largely erased by climactic conditions).
Not being a geologist (it was a history paper), I cannot say why that is
the case, that marble has two different faces, but it was definitely a
factor affecting the cost of a headstone in the 19th century.
Nowadays, marble is used much more as crushed stone than polished slabs and
it may not be a consideration anymore as little in the way of polished
marble is intended to be exposed to the elements.
Victor Sack
> azaz...@koroviev.de (Victor Sack) wrote:
>
> >Marble is calcium carbonate and is definitely porous, though not very
> >much so. Its porosity is one of the reasons for its use in
> >production of lardo di Colonnata, among other things.
>
> Please don't tell me they age that lard in marble caves.
In tubs/troughs, not caves. See
<http://groups.google.com/group/rec.food.cooking/msg/1533e66ea702137e>.
Victor
sf
wrote:
>sf <s...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> azaz...@koroviev.de (Victor Sack) wrote:
>>
>> >Marble is calcium carbonate and is definitely porous, though not very
>> >much so. Its porosity is one of the reasons for its use in
>> >production of , among other things.
>>
>> Please don't tell me they age that lard in marble caves.
>
>In tubs/troughs, not caves. See
><http://groups.google.com/group/rec.food.cooking/msg/1533e66ea702137e>.
>
I was picturing them hung like prosciutto to age. :)
merryb
> Mark Thorson <nos...@sonic.net> wrote innews:491631D9...@sonic.net:
Wow- you're old...
Wayne Boatwright
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Michel Boucher
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>> Wow- you're old...
>
> That’s why he’s such a fount of wisdom. :)
Recognition in one's lifetime...how odd. :-)>>>>>
Gregory Morrow
zxcvbob wrote:
Thanks, everyone, for your comments. I thought marble was just "marble" but
it's a whole "world" to explore! I actually learned something in this
thread...
;-)
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blake murphy
> Wayne Boatwright <waynebo...@geemail.com> wrote in
> news:Xns9B52B0462C415wa...@69.16.185.250:
>
>>> Wow- you're old...
>>
>> That’s why he’s such a fount of wisdom. :)
>
> Recognition in one's lifetime...how odd. :-)>>>>>
beats howling in the wilderness.
your pal,
jacob
Giusi
Michel Boucher wrote:
>> Recognition in one's lifetime...how odd. :-)>>>>>
>
> beats howling in the wilderness.
>
> your pal,
> jacob
Speak for yourself, boy.
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Bruce
wrote:
>All natural stone is porous, including marble
Sheldon Martin
>On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 james.walker wrote:
>
>>All natural stone is porous, including marble
>
>Sheldon's head isn't porous. It doesn't let any information through.
would realize it's refering to a "BAKER'S stone (a work surface), NOT
a stone that goes into an oven like a silly/useless pizza stone.
We sll know that Brwucie can't cook/bake/nada... Brwucie is only here
as a semen receptical, to sniff anuses, and to suck the shit stains
out of underpants.
a human
GM
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