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My gas range oven hit 600 degrees on a pizza stone and warped the bottom rack last Saturday
Had to pull a sheet pan of bread out with welding gloves and let the whole thing cool down for 2 hours before I could even touch the rack, anyone else ever warp their oven internals by firing it too hot?
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thomas.cameron1d ago
Wait, is nobody going to call this out for what it actually is? I've run my oven at 550 for years with pizza steel and never had a rack warp on me. That sounds like a manufacturing defect or a really cheap rack honestly, because the metal should handle way more than 600 degrees before it starts bending like that. My oven manual even says it's fine to run the self-clean cycle which hits like 800 degrees or something crazy. Maybe your specific oven just has thin racks that can't take the heat.
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Yeah, @thomas.cameron I get what you're saying about the self-clean cycle going higher, but I think some racks are just built different. I warped a rack a couple years back when I tried to broil a frozen pizza on the bottom with the stone on the top rack - bad idea. Ended up flipping the rack upside down and using it that way for a few months. What finally fixed it for me was buying a set of aftermarket heavier gauge racks online for like 40 bucks. They've held up to 650 easy since then. That cheap stamped metal from the factory just doesn't cut it for high heat stuff.
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