If you're only looking to make pizza with your stone, we recommend checking out The Original Baking Steel; it made the best pizza of the bunch, but the heat transfer was too hot for baking bread.

A pizza stone, as its name implies ... This is different from a pizza steel, which — again, as the name implies — is made out ...

Unlike Baking Steel, Dough-Joe already had a foothold in the pizza stone space so steels were a natural pivot. What is a baking steel? At their most basic, baking steels aren't all that sexy.

Baking steels are made from steel, giving them superior heat conductivity and the ability to retain the correct temperatures longer than a pizza stone (aka bread stone). This translates to faster ...