Where can I get an engraved pizza stone?

March 8, 2007 4:34 PM

I want to buy an engraved pizza stone. Is this something that is sold? If not, can I get a pre-purchased pizza stone engraved anywhere in NYC? If not, can I just buy an engraved brick or is there something else that can serve the same purpose? Willing to pay up to $100.
posted by unknowncommand to Shopping (5 answers total)

I don't have a lot of familiarity with pizza stones, but from what I'm reading, they sound like they are porous and kind of brittle. Sounds like that might be kind of hard to engrave. (I'd be happy to be wrong about that though), if it really is a stone, you may want to contact someone who does stone cutting, perhaps someone who does grave-stones. (And while morbid, it would give you a great story...)
posted by quin at 4:52 PM on March 8, 2007

My first girlfriend had a kitchen cutting board that was a leftover piece from a headstone shop. Perhaps go there and see if they have any miscut/misengraved pieces they would be willing to sell you cheap. They may even recut it to your dimensions.
posted by jmnugent at 5:05 PM on March 8, 2007 [1 favorite]

Almost any place that does headstones or lithography could laser engrave virtually any stone, or use older metal tool engraving. But engraving something that repeatedly goes through extreme heating/cooling cycles is probably not a great idea, as the engraving will form stress points, where cracks will start easily during thermal expansion and contraction. If the stone is never used for making or serving pizza, but is just decorative, have at it.
posted by paulsc at 5:23 PM on March 8, 2007

"...engraving something that repeatedly goes through extreme heating/cooling cycles is probably not a great idea, as the engraving will form stress points, where cracks will start easily during thermal expansion and contraction."

Maybe you could have a metal plate engraved, and attach that to the stone? Or maybe you could get away with shallow engraving in a sans-serif font.
posted by contraption at 6:13 PM on March 8, 2007

My first girlfriend had a kitchen cutting board that was a leftover piece from a headstone shop.

Not to derail the thread but that is a horrible, horrible thing to do if you want to maintain a good sharp knife.

Now to the question at hand, I'm with the others and agree that it would be tough to get something like a pizza stone etched. You could however do something nice and easy with a Pizza Peel.
posted by mmascolino at 6:48 PM on March 8, 2007