Placing a pizza stone into a hot oven could cause it to crack from thermal shock. (What's more, it will not have time to absorb much heat before you cook on it, making it all but useless.) ...

8. You Season the Pizza Stone Like You Would Cast Iron You might think a light coat of oil will make that pizza stone non-stick, but the same rules about soapy water also apply to oil.

"I've been in the pizza business for almost a decade, and my favorite and time-tested method in pizza stone maintenance is the wait, scrape off, wipe, and air dry strategy," she says.