[dx034]

You don't necessarily need an oven, a pizza stone works to make a Neapolitan style pizza. You have to heat it for an hour at max temperature. After that, the pizza will be done within 3-4 minutes and have the same consistency as from a high temperature oven.

[lorenzhs]

Are you sure it takes an hour for the stone to reach temperature? You need the entire thing to be as hot as the oven can make it, but does that really take that long? Heating it any longer doesn't make a difference other than increase your electricity bill.

[dx034]

It seems to take that long. I only did it for 30 min in the beginning and the last pizzas turned out much better than the first. Since I had it in for an hour I get consistent results from the start. The stone is quite heavy so I can imagine that it takes a bit to have the whole stone on temperature.

But could obviously work faster with a good oven, mine came with the flat.

[lorenzhs]

Interesting, thanks for your measurement points! I rarely make pizza at home so I don't have a stone but I've been meaning to get one. Since they (hopefully) have high thermal conductivity it should be fairly easy to measure with an IR thermometer.