My husband and I make pizza from scratch once or twice a month and we are very happy with the way they come out of the oven with baking stone this. The wooden pizza board is so wonderful. Dust it with a little corn meal and the uncooked pizza slides right off Onto the stone. The stone is very easy to clean, but I am a little clumsy so feel I have to be extremely careful with it since it's so heavy. Would not want to drop it on the floor and have it shatter ...