Originally Posted by
GoneOffShore
You could get some river stones like you'd put down in a garden, put them on a sheet tray or half sheet along with a length of steel chain and put the whole thing on the very bottom shelf of the oven. After preheating the oven to bread baking temperature, let the oven cycle on and off a couple of times. When you're ready to bake, put the bread in, and with a Super Soaker water gun spray the stones and chain. Close the oven door quickly and you've gotten the crust you want on your bread. Stand to the side when soaking the stones. Live steam is dangerous. It might also help to have an assistant to close the door.
This is undoubtedly okay, but I'm a wimp about spraying a water gun into my electric oven Just seems wrong and makes my hands shake thinking about it.
The internet, where everything is true, also has lots of "advice" about never washing your pizza/bread stone because it will absorb the water then crack/explode when heated. Bad science probably, but I'm not taking chances. Scrubbed and scraped the stone for a long time yesterday after a failed pizza attempt and it's now set aside to dry for a week or so. Just in case.