Cindy, so sorry about your stone! It sounds like you may have laid your room-temperature stone onto the hot floor of the oven? I keep my stone on the floor of my oven full time, and it heats and cools gradually as the oven heats and cools. If you put the cold stone onto a hot piece of steel (oven floor), I suspect that's the reason it broke. Either that or it simply had lived its useful life and was telling you it's time for a new stone. :) I hope you enjoyed the pie — PJH

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