Pizza stone won’t stop smoking

[u/PetalbrookMayor]

Hello!

My parents recently gave me an old pizza stone they had. I’ve used it a couple times already but I’ve noticed that it smokes once it’s been heated up in the oven.

After researching, I found maybe it had some oils seeped into it and it was recommended that I basically just put it into the oven and let it all smoke out.

However, I’ve been doing that for over an hour on 475° and the pizza stone is still smoking. It’s not a heavy smoke but when I open the oven there’s definitely some smoke that comes out.

What does this mean? Should I just let it go even longer? Or is it done for and I should just buy another one?

Thank you!

[u/TwoSillyStrings]

Genuine question on this topic: A friend suggested running the oven self clean cycle with my pizza stone inside to clean it. That seemed excessive, but would it work?

[u/Caverjen → u/TwoSillyStrings]

I do not recommend running the self cleaning cycle on your oven unless it's an old oven that doesn't have electronics.

[u/FuzzyMcBitty → u/Caverjen]

Why not?

[u/Caverjen → u/FuzzyMcBitty]

Very good chance it'll burn out the electronics.

[u/FuzzyMcBitty → u/Caverjen]

Interesting. Thanks.